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Mid East Israel declare war after Hamas attack III
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He's orange, but he's not brown.
He assassinated the head of the IRGC in Iraq. So by any standard they hold themselves up to, Israel and the USA can't complain if their leaders are targeted.
Iran have been much more targeted in their attacks than Israel have, yet Australia has sanctions on Iran, but not Israel?
Make that make sense without admitting the inherent racism/Islamophobia.
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Deliberate leak?
The Biden administration has warned Israel that it faces possible punishment, including the potential stopping of US weapons transfers, if it does not take immediate action to let more humanitarian aid into Gaza.
A letter written jointly by Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, and Lloyd Austin, the defence secretary, exhorts Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to ease humanitarian suffering in the territory by lifting restrictions on the entry of assistance within 30 days or face unspecified policy “implications”.
The four-page missive, dated 13 October, was sent to Yoav Gallant, the Israeli defence minister, and Ron Dermer, the strategic affairs minister, and came to light after being posted on social media by Barak Ravid, an Israeli journalist who works for Axios, after apparently being leaked.
Its authenticity was confirmed by a state department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, at a news briefing on Tuesday.
The Biden administration has warned Israel that it faces possible punishment, including the potential stopping of US weapons transfers, if it does not take immediate action to let more humanitarian aid into Gaza.
A letter written jointly by Antony Blinken, the US secretary of state, and Lloyd Austin, the defence secretary, exhorts Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to ease humanitarian suffering in the territory by lifting restrictions on the entry of assistance within 30 days or face unspecified policy “implications”.
The four-page missive, dated 13 October, was sent to Yoav Gallant, the Israeli defence minister, and Ron Dermer, the strategic affairs minister, and came to light after being posted on social media by Barak Ravid, an Israeli journalist who works for Axios, after apparently being leaked.
Its authenticity was confirmed by a state department spokesperson, Matthew Miller, at a news briefing on Tuesday.
Saying one thing and doing another. Pretty much the Biden-Harris position on Israel.
"We wish they would kill less civilians, but we're going to give them more weapons to do more killing of civilians"
"We wish they would kill less civilians, but we're going to give them more weapons to do more killing of civilians"
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The same Iran that has sold weapons used to bomb cities in Ukraine? The whole Iranian regime are manifestly evil and are only interested in clinging onto power, hence always needing an external enemy or threat.
Iran supply arms for Russian war crimes, US supplies them for Israeli war crimes. If selling arms to criminal regimes makes you war criminals, the UK and US Governments would be up at the Hague first, followed by Israel and Russia.
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Don't hold Iran up as some positive then. The head of the IRGC was a vile individual who died the way he acted, with thousands of innocent people killed from his commands and actions. Iran supplies weapons and expertise to attack a country that has never had conflict with them. They are a important part of why the conflict in Israel, Palestine, Lebanon and Syria keeps escalating. Noone should be fetishising them as a positive in anyway.
The US does that all over the world. Should we celebrate if the US Secretary of Defence was blown up in London? And tell the US that they shouldn't retaliate because their weapons are being used to kill people in Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Palestine, Sudan, Pakistan, Phillippines, Algeria and Peru, and that's not going back very far.
Assassinating political or military leaders with strikes in foreign lands sets a very dangerous precedent. One which the west wouldn't tolerate of its own leaders, but the west excuses everything it does and demonises everything done to it.
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Pointing at the US and saying oh but look at them isn't an excuse or an argument for the Iranian regime
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'The US is watching to ensure that Israel’s actions on the ground show that it does not have a “policy of starvation” in the northern Gaza Strip, US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield told this afternoon’s UN security council meeting, Reuters reports.
She told the council that such a policy would be “horrific and unacceptable and would have implications under international law and US law.” '
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She told the council that such a policy would be “horrific and unacceptable and would have implications under international law and US law.” '
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So the Israelis bomb a refugee camp which catches fire (because obviously tents would catch fire). Palestinian firefighters attempt to turn the fire off. The IDF shoot at the firefighters. This is so ridiculous.
They want us to believe that Palestinian lives don't matter. There would be outrage if a pack of dogs were treated that way.
They want us to believe that Palestinian lives don't matter. There would be outrage if a pack of dogs were treated that way.
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