https://theintercept.com/2024/02/04/israel-gaza-sudan-atrocity-determination/
The State Department has been unwilling to make a similar atrocity determination on Israel’s war on Gaza.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Late last year, 50 humanitarian organizations asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken to make an atrocity determination related to a conflict that was drawing global attention.
“Based on the State Department’s careful analysis of the law and available facts, I have determined that members of the SAF and the RSF have committed war crimes in Sudan,” he said in a December 6 statement.
Such a determination can have important foreign policy implications, creating a legal designation for international crimes usually accompanied by limits on weapons and security assistance, economic sanctions, and other penalties.
On a near-daily basis, a State Department spokesperson takes questions from the media and is routinely pressed about the latest atrocity alleged to have been committed by Israeli forces, whether it’s gunfire aimed at civilians in a church; the bombing of hospitals, mosques, schools, universities, or residential buildings; or the cutting off of food, fuel, and medicine.
All told, the U.S. has given Israel $158 billion in bilateral assistance and missile defense funding, more than any other country since World War II, according to a March 2023 report by the Congressional Research Service.
These statements are inconsistent with the administration’s own conventional arms transfer policy, in which President Biden committed to ‘engage in appropriate monitoring’ to ensure that U.S. weapons are used in accordance with international human rights and humanitarian law obligations,” said Chappell.
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The ongoing tragedy in Sudan finally gets a headline but of course the Intercept is just using the 6 million displaced people there as a prop to talk about the Israel–Hamas war some more. Apparently there's a paucity of coverage on Gaza; thank god the Intercept is around to shine a spotlight on these forgotten issues.
Well, we don't tend to make condemnations of ourselves, and at this point it's Biden & Blinken's genocide as much as Bibi's.
Blinken is just awful. It's beyond words what we're doing over there.
No, it's well within words what you think is going on over there--just awful stupid. Your misinformation is terrible, get out of your HAMAS information bubble.
Finally; an article that highlights the humanitarian catastrophe of the 6 million displaced Sudanese... oh, no. They're just being used as a prop so the Intercept can talk about the Israel Hamas war some more. Thank god; they have such a paucity of coverage of that.
Because a war on terrorists in self-defense is NOT ethnically cleansing. It's good to see this group is as stupid and confused as ever.
Were you one of those people who thought that clean wars were possible? They are not. This is just a war and like all wars, it's horrible, with civilians paying the heaviest price. You don't need a genocide for that.
Killing a greater percentage of civilians in under six months than the US did by continuously bombing Japan for three years in WW2 with shite bomb sights, poor intel, only unguided munitions, and two atomic bombs, suggests that this goes far beyond just being an 'unclean' war.
Apples to oranges. Just over half of the Japanese population was living in cities in WW2, compared to 77.6% in the Gaza Strip. There's barely any countryside in the strip where parents could send their children to, if they were allowed to. "Only" 67 (or 66, depending on the source) major cities were firebombed in Japan out of at least several hundred (Japan has 792 cities today). Also, Japan, unlike the Gaza Strip, had bomb shelters and air defenses, including sirens. There are not even air raid sirens in Gaza, there are no bomb shelters (tunnels are exclusively for fighters, as the group has publicly stated) and Hamas often prevents people from fleeing their homes.
I shouldn't have even bothered with this explanation, because your claim doesn't hold up anyway. Despite the above caveats, up to 900,000 people were killed in strategic bombing campaign against Japan. Out of 72 million, that's 1.25%.
I shouldn't have even bothered with this explanation, because your claim doesn't hold up anyway. Despite the above caveats, up to 900,000 people were killed in strategic bombing campaign against Japan. Out of 72 million, that's 1.25%.
Yep, and guess what 27,000 of 2.1 million is? Some amount of those 30% of adult men killed are combatants, so I suppose you're right. Using the high estimate of Japanese civilian deaths vs. current estimates of Palestinian civilian deaths, they're 'only' comparable instead of greater.
I used high estimates for Japan in WW2, because that's what numbers released by Hamas are at the best of times if not totally made up. Remember when they claimed that Israel had bombed and flattened a small hospital, had a 500 dead number ready within hours, only for it to become clear from live TV footage on Al Jazeera of all stations it was a stray rocket from an affiliated group that, instead of hitting some random target in Israel, had hit the parking lot of that hospital? Al Jazeera then had the audacity to publish an "analysis" that claimed the rocket was shot down by the Iron Dome over Gaza, even though the rocket broke up during its boost phase. Iron Dome only intercepts rockets once they have used up their fuel and are on a predictable ballistic trajectory and they never do this over Gaza, because that's where those rockets with a failure rate of up to 20% are still in the boost phase.
According to Hamas, those 500 dead became 750, then 470, because apparently they are using an RNG. The 470 are still part of the total death toll that for some inexplicable reason is called reliable by far too many people and organizations that I once thought were trustworthy. That many people wouldn't fit into that small parking lot if they stood shoulder to shoulder. Hamas even doubled down that it was an Israeli bomb, had the audacity to claim that the rocket debris had "dissolved" when people were asking for an independent investigation.
I like to mention this particular example, because we have the receipts here, we can see exactly how Hamas' reporting of casualty figures works and we can clearly see it's bogus. It's not far-fetched to then have some serious doubts about the rest of their numbers.
Before you get angry with me: I'm not doubting that lots of people are getting killed in Gaza. I'm not denying that many if not the majority of them are civilians. What I have a problem with is trusting the terrorist organization that started this stupid war they have no chance in hell of winning to be even remotely reliable when they report their numbers, since they rely on psychological warfare, on creating international pressure on Israel through every dead Palestinian, real or not. I am revolted by people here and elsewhere uncritically citing these numbers, doing Hamas' propaganda work for them. Hell, so many of them are claiming that all of the dead Palestinians in Gaza or all but a few dozen are civilians, falling for the simple trick Hamas is using of not distinguishing between military and civilian casualties anymore.
Once these little lie have been accepted, widely shared until they are gospel and anyone critical of them gets tarred and feathered by a self-righteous outrage mob that thinks just because they are doing the noble thing and rooting for what they believe to be the plucky underdog fighting against "colonizers", they can't possibly be wrong, it's not that difficult to move on to the big lies from there, like that no Israeli civilians were harmed by Hamas on October 7 (which makes the Israeli response look that much more monstrous), that the hostages were treated well, that Hamas is fighting for the Palestinian cause instead of for a global Islamic caliphate and a second Holocaust.
Israeli soldiers have worse aim than the stormtroopers in Star Wars - they can't shoot a grown man hiding behind a small child.
Is it because an influential group's belief says that Israel winning in the middle east brings upon the rapture?
Yeah. I would've gone with a broader "Israel has influence over US politicians while Sudan does not", but that's the essence of it.
The largest demographic group in Israel, the Mizrahi, look indistinguishable from other Middle-Eastern people. You couldn't tell them apart from Palestinians or any other Arabs. Bringing American notions of race into this is a very foolish endeavor.
Mizrahi being the largest demographic is a recent change. Ashkenazi have historically been the largest.
Not true either.
While the Israeli government does not track ethnicity of its Jewish population, many studies have been completed.
Ashkenazi Jews were historically the majority of Jews in Israel. However as immigration from European countries and the USSR increased, the demographics changed. The majority of French Jews are Sephardic and many Jews from the USSR are Mizrahi.
Of the 7 million Jewish Israelis, only 900,000 immigrated from the Arab world.
So a completely false narrative peddled by someone who clearly has an agenda.