I’m so sorry: If you have to go back to work today, allow me to offer my sincerest condolences. And if you never got a break over the holidays at all, I’m even more sorry. That’s not because I think the world should stop for a Christian holiday or anything, I just think we should all work a lot less. Love you!
Not much holiday cheer in Bethlehem: Bethlehem, a town in the West Bank that’s cited as Jesus’s original birth place, cancelled their Christmas festivities once again this year as Israel continues its genocide in Gaza. Since Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has displaced millions and killed tens of thousands in a death toll the media has basically stopped updating as we probably won’t truly understand the scale of the carnage until after a ceasefire. In just the last 24 hours, as many across the world celebrate Christmas, Israel has killed 38 people in Gaza and injured more than 100 others. Not only that, but Israel’s ramped up its violence against Palestinians in the West Bank as well.
Protect journalists: Quds Today, a Palestinian TV station, says Israel targeted and killed five of their journalists outside of a hospital where one of the journalists’ wife was giving birth. The victims include Ibrahim Jamal Ibrahim Al-Sheikh Ali; Faisal Abdallah Muhammad Abu Qamsan; Mohammed Ayad Khamis al-Ladaa; Ayman Nihad Abd Alrahman Jadi; and Fadi Ihab Muhammad Ramadan Hassouna. They are among 133 Palestinian journalists killed by Israel since Oct 7. 2023. Israel claims the five people were actually “Islamic Jihad operatives posing as journalists,” according to the BBC.
There’s not an appropriate holiday pun for this: It’s just awful.
On Christmas Eve, ICE is deporting 31 people on a flight from Seattle’s Boeing Field to El Paso, Texas. Volunteers with @ResistenciaNW observe flights in and out of the airport every week, monitoring the agency’s deportation activities. pic.twitter.com/g6stkxKlXl
— Guy Oron (@GuyOron) December 24, 2024
Weather: That was some rain yesterday, huh? Well, today should be drier! By the time you’re reading this, the showers should have stopped and by noon we’ll even see some sunshine. As for temperature, expect things to hover around the high 40s and low 50s. If you’re a fiend for sunshine, take advantage of whatever rays we get this afternoon because the clouds and rain will roll back in tomorrow! For the full weather report, check here or whatever weather source you trust most—and if that’s just this blog, you are probably very hot, but very chaotic. We should be friends.
Whoooooosh: We’re not out of the woods in terms of wind until about 1pm today.
But wind doesn’t have to be all bad:
Discovery Park this morning. So cool to watch. #wawx pic.twitter.com/bDBWro2wUn
— Tina Shepard (she/her) 🏔🏃🏻♀️🟧 (@shepard_tina) December 24, 2024
Edmonds is not defunding the police: Right-wing media made a big stink about the City of Edmonds considering a proposal to shut down its police department in the face of a $13 million budget deficit. I’m totally into tightening up bloated cop budgets instead of making like the mayor of Seattle and cutting hundreds of millions from more preventative spending like affordable housing. But that’s not what’s happening. Edmonds is considering, among other options, closing the department and contracting with a county sheriffs department—possibly Snohomish County or King County—which many small towns do to save money. The Seattle Times has more.
Azerbaijan airplane down: An Azerbaijan Airlines plane crashed Wednesday in Kazakhstan, killing 38 people on board. Another 32 people survived the crash, but have been hospitalized. Many remain in critical condition. So far, it’s unclear what lead to the tragic crash—theories include an “emergency situation” onboard after a bird strike, according to Russia’s aviation watchdog on Telegram, as well as as bad weather conditions along their route, and a Russian missile. The Azerbaijani president, Ilham Aliye cautioned against speculation: “There are videos of the plane crash available in the media and on social networks, and everyone can watch them. However, the reasons for the crash are not yet known to us. There are various theories, but I believe it is premature to discuss them.”
Six days til sex with robots: Expect a huge cultural shift very shortly!
REVEALED: Women will be having more sex with ROBOTS than men by 2025 https://t.co/TO87mbCAHw pic.twitter.com/qKrTIIuAFP
— The Sun (@TheSun) June 30, 2016
Ukraine update: President Joe Biden denounced Russia’s Christmas Day attack on Ukraine, which he said aimed to cut off Ukrainians access to heat in the winter and jeopardize the country’s safety grid. He promised to continue sending guns to Ukraine in the wake of the attack. But Biden’s only president for a few more weeks and it seems President-elect Donald Trump may be kinder to Russia. Trump’s choice for special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, also denounced Russia’s attack, but added that the world is “closely watching actions on both sides” and committed to peace vaguely enough that he could mean total capitulation to Russia. Just sayin’!
Christmas should be a time of peace, yet Ukraine was brutally attacked on Christmas Day. Launching large-scale missile and drone attacks on the day of the Lord’s birth is wrong. The world is closely watching actions on both sides. The U.S. is more resolved than ever to bring…
— Keith Kellogg (@generalkellogg) December 25, 2024
PSA: Hey, cat owners. Northwest Naturals, a pet food company based in Portland, has recalled a batch of its Feline Turkey Recipe cat food after it tested positive for bird flu and killed a house cat. So if you have a two-pound plastic bag of the food with “best if used by” dates of May 21, 2026, and June 23, 2026, throw that shit away.
You gotta hear this: I played this track earlier this week when asked about my favorite Christmas song and I have amazing taste if I do say so myself.

“We probably won’t truly understand the scale of the carnage until after a ceasefire.” Get rid of “probably” and Hannah is correct.
Hasn’t that been true of all wars?
Hasn’t it been true in all wars that the collateral damage to non-combatants, and non-combatant infra-structure has always been higher than to military members?
And yet the international community has not repealed:
“Article 51
Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations.”
Averagebob,
The U.N. also hasn’t abolished Article 43 which requires member states to maintain armed forces
It hasn’t abolished Article Articles 44 – 47, which discuss the U.N. using armed force to enforce international law.
So the question in Gaza has never been whether force would be used to restore peace, but whether it would be the IDF alone or a U.N. sponsored coalition.
Either way Gazan’s would be caught in the crossfire. All in accordance with international law and the U.N. Charter.
@2: Christ, again with the terrible takes on international law.
Article 43 of the UN Charter does not require member states to maintain a military. There are many member states that do not. Article 43 only requires member states that have militaries to make their militaries available for various types of UN military actions on an ad hoc basis.
Also, although Israel is certainly entitled to attack Hamas in Gaza, it is not required to attack Hamas in Gaza. So there is indeed a question of “whether force would be used,” and there still is a question of whether force SHOULD be used.
I am once again revoking your internet lawyer license. You and AverageBob deserve one another! 😄
“Merry Christmas.
Israel is STILL
committing
genocide.”
–@tS
what UTTER
Nonsense! the Wormtongue’s
been here for a fucking Year INSISTING
it Cannot BE a “genocide” if Bernie fucking
Sanders says it may not be (yet). and he’s right:
Israel’s War Crimes
in Palestine are
approaching
Omnicide.
and
WE, the
People of the
USofA’re fucking
sending them OUR
TAX DOLLARS to do so.
merry
christ-mas
Everyone! and
Happy Holy Days:
let the
Massacrring
of women & kids
continue Unabated.
they
asked for
it. didn’t they?
Hannah, is the ICE deportation awful because it was on Christmas Eve? Also, we’re still in the Biden administration. A link to X isn’t helpful.
-or-
“You ain’t see nothin’ yet!”
@3, “Undertake to make available to the Security Council, on its call and in accordance with a special agreement or agreements, armed forces.”
It does not add a modifier like “armed forces, if they have them.” Any nation could not agree to supply troops, territory, or munitions, and then the U.N. has to decide how to punish the member that fails to live up to its obligation. In reality, the U.N. never does anything. Member nations get all the rights, and none of the responsibilities. They don’t kick countries out for failing to pay dues, failing to provide military force, or failure to do anything required of members under their Charter. So the U.N. is sovereign over nothing.
If a country is going to engage in self-defense, by definition, it will use force. I suppose Israel could have surrendered or just sit back and continued to take Hamas’s attack, leaving it solely to Hamas to determine if, or when, their attack would stop.
You can create an armed force by conscription and impromptu minimal training. Ukraine did when they faced invasion, training some with broomsticks for wood dummy firearms, until they had enough rifles available. Russia still does it today, throwing human cannon fodder in front of AFU to be slaughtered.
If your country has a population, they have a military, or can instantaneously create one. Give the population weapons, have them fight hand to hand, or just be cannon fodder to soak up the oppositions combat power.
The only reason Israel continues to exist is because 473 million Arabs don’t launch themselves in unending, unarmed, continuous waves at 9.7 million Israelis until Israel runs out of bombs and bullets, gun barrels fail, fuel runs out, etc. Would such an Arab Army be efficient? Nope. Would it be a bloodbath? Yup. Would the casualty ratio massively favor Israel? Yes. Would it be a bloodbath? Probably the worst in any single war in human history. Would a fully committed Arab population achieve the aim of annihilating Israel and imposing political aims by other means (apologies to Von Clausewitz)? Yes.
The U.N. specifically contemplates and legalizes war, at least wars of self-defense. Once they start, its only a matter of whether the non-combatants caught in the middle are being slaughter by only two opposing forces, multiple opposing forces, and whether those forces are nationally, or multi-nationally commanded.
@3, Is it really a law, if there is no willingness to use whatever coercive means are necessary to attempt to enforce it? Or is it a mere aspiration and suggestion? I.e. International law, when the international community just throws out mere words without the means or will to give those words effect.
I’m sorry you have to work too hannah but look on the bright side, the way TS is cleaning house maybe you won’t have to much longer!
Why stop with the false accusations of genocide? If you’re going to continue this modern blood libel as The Stranger continues dabbling in Der Stürmer-style “reporting,” you should be more creative.
-Do Jews render the fat of infants to make their Hanukkah candles?
-Obviously, the. number of tzitzit Jewish men sport at the waist equal the number of their victims.
-I’ve heard the Talmud instructs them to make all Goyim their slaves.
-In Judaism, there are 613 commandments, reportedly with more than 550 related to colonial settler imperialism, apartheid and genocide.
Continue ad nauseum.
If attacks occur upon Seattle Jewish institutions or residents, will Hannah or anyone else feel even the slightest sense of responsibility for pushing these false narratives and encouraging some among us to target local Zionists (Jews)?
It’s less than 20 years since the attack on the Seattle Jewish Federation (7/28/2006). The environment is ripe for a repeat of such a heinous crime or far worse. But please continue stoking the fire of the growing Jew hate, I’m sure it will be fine.
@4: While watching your own personal show-trial prosecution of now-disgraced former Comrade Bernie is fun, I do wonder who gave you the order to start using “omnicide”? And do you mean the IDF has merely started killing every human in “Palestine,” or does your definition include killing every last living creature in that area?
@6: No, you’re Average-bobbing Article 43. Read it more carefully. It says member states have to “make available” armed forces (and assistance and facilities) to the Security Council upon its call. it does not say that member states have to have armed forces in the first place. Plenty of member states do not maintain armed forces, and that’s totally allowed. 😄
The Annex to Article 43 addresses this issue explicitly in Chapter IV, Article 14:
“Contributions by Member Nations of the United Nations, other than the permanent members of the Security Council, may not necessarily be represented by armed forces. Such other Member Nations which may be unable to furnish armed forces may fulfil their obligation to the United Nations by furnishing facilities and other assistance in accordance with agreements reached with the Security Council.”
Seriously, dude, you gotta read what the text actually says, not just cherry-pick excerpts of the text in isolation to support your personal politics! 😄
“Christ Is Still in the Rubble”: Bethlehem Rev. Isaac Calls on U.S. to Stop Funding Gaza Genocide
REV. MUNTHER ISAAC: “Never again” should mean never again to all peoples. “Never again” has become “yet again” — yet again to supremacy, yet again to racism and yet again to genocide.
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/12/23/rev_munther_isaac_christmas_2024
Let it be reflected that Lying POS thumpus again desperately attempts to link me to NotMyopic with whom I disagree with just about everything. Continual smears, harassment and character assassination is what happens to Israel critics. I suspect that I should wear thumpus’ systematic slander of my person as a badge of honor: I’d be ignored if my criticism wasn’t effective.
@9 you understand that by breathlessly labeling any criticism of Israel, the nation state, “blood libel” you are removing any actual meaning from that phrase? If you actually think “the IDF should follow international human rights norms” is equivalent to “Jews render baby fat to make Hanukkah candles” you are a crazy person.
“Continual smears, harassment and character assassination”
Classic tactics of the far right and authoritarians who want to suppress discourse that opposes their politics any which way they can
@14: lol, but you came on here in the November 18 slog to argue that Hamas’s videotaped beheading of a wounded hostage was an act of Palestinian self-defense! 😂😂😂
@15: ha ha ha, no one’s trying to “suppress” your “discourse.” It’s just that you’re comprehensively wrong about anything having to do with Israel. Anti-semitism has poisoned your ability to analyze. 😂
“Continual smears,
harassment and character
assassination is what happens to Israel critics.”
–@ab
when bibi
sent wormmy
his Sockbott 🔨
they did what they
Do — shut Off the ethics dept.
when MOST OF The fucking Planet*
calls it what it Is but you Hafta resort to
Webster’s to continue your Justifications of bibi’s
keep the fuck outta Prison gambit cum Murder soiree
2/3 of the Dead
being Women
and Children
&
Not
Hamas
what fucking Lesson
are we teaching
the Planet?
and We
are fucking
Paying for this
fucking Insanity
*what
Else’ve
you even Got?
and now back
to the Wormtongue
our reasonable centrist
and his cute lil’ pet monkey
and our resident morally-blind Nihilust
with an Uncanny vision for seeing the invisible
and missing
the obvious
@10
you spelled
IOF wrong again.
“@[Wormtongue] you understand that by breathlessly labeling any criticism of Israel, the nation state, “”blood libel”” you are removing any actual meaning from that phrase?”
–@14,@13twelve
hmmm.
Using the Wormtingue’s
tactics on wormmy Himself?
see him
wriggle see
him squirm there
he Goes Again — our
little Worm! aka: the Justifier
“Genocide is taking place in Gaza,” [Doctor Without Borders] says
19 December 2024
Israeli forces are “crushing the entire population of Gaza”, Médecins Sans Frontières warns in a new report – the latest by an international organisation to describe Israeli military actions in Gaza as ethnic cleansing and genocide.
The Israeli military is “destroying the conditions of life” in Gaza through 14 months of attacks on civilians, dismantling the healthcare system and infrastructure, and denying humanitarian aid, the aid organisation said.
“We are seeing clear signs of ethnic cleansing as Palestinians are forcibly displaced, trapped, and bombed,” MSF secretary general Christopher Lockyear said in a statement. “What our medical teams have witnessed on the ground throughout this conflict is consistent with the descriptions provided by an increasing number of legal experts and organisations concluding that genocide is taking place in Gaza.”
https://www.thenewhumanitarian.org/news/2024/12/19/genocide-taking-place-gaza-msf-says
@18: “…when MOST OF The fucking Planet*
calls it what it is…”
Well, obviously, if a belief has widespread popularity, it simply must be factually correct. That’s how we know European Jews once used the blood of Christian children in the Passover host.
(Bernie’s refusal to agree with you continues to hit you really hard, I see.)
“2/3 of the Dead
being Women
and Children
&
Not
Hamas”
While I’m glad to read you finally admit Hamas is a combatant in Gaza, 1/ we really don’t know the casualty breakdown, but 2/ we do know Hamas’ leaders instructed their terrorists to keep the civilian body count high. So if they pushed it all the way up to 2/3, then I guess Hamas’ leadership was pleased?
“…and his cute lil’ pet monkey…”
Dehumanizing one’s political opponents never leads to any long-term political problems, eh?
Amnesty International investigation concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza
December 5, 2024
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/12/amnesty-international-concludes-israel-is-committing-genocide-against-palestinians-in-gaza/
Israel’s Crime of Extermination, Acts of Genocide in Gaza
December 19, 2024
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/12/19/israels-crime-extermination-acts-genocide-gaza
UN Special Committee finds Israel’s warfare methods in Gaza consistent with genocide, including use of starvation as weapon of war
14 November 2024
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/11/un-special-committee-finds-israels-warfare-methods-gaza-consistent-genocide
‘The environment is ripe for a repeat of such a heinous crime [7/28/2006], or far worse. But please continue stoking the fire of the growing Jew hate’ –@9
bibi’s keep outta prison gambit’s
what’s stoking those fires not
our condemnation of either
genocide or genocide lite
its bibi’s war
and NOT something
Jews planet-wide should be
fucking Blamed for. that’s just Wrong.
end the
massacre
end the War
Crimes free fucking
Israel free Palestine and
either Depose bibi or give
him Amnesty. either way END
bibi’s War on Humanity.
@wormmy
above — apologies
I seldom read your tripe any-
more tho sometimes I’ll skim but
not this time. your vile regurgitations
aren’t
worth the
brainspace
tl;db
@17 You are a liar. I challenge you to cite any antisemitic comment from me.
@20 “Well, obviously, if a belief has widespread popularity, it simply must be factually correct”
When you’re forced to use Holocaust denier logic to desperately defend Israel’s conduct in Gaza you know you’ve lost the plot.
@16 I was mocking you all’s repeated insistence the IDF bombing children’s hospitals etc were acts of Israeli self defense, since it’s apparently necessary to spell it out explicitly
In case anyone was still wondering why the body count in Gaza is so high:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/world/middleeast/israel-hamas-gaza-bombing.html
@26: lol, you consistently fail the 3D test.
@28: lol, i see, the “just kidding” defense of terrorism. Sorry, not buying the trolling defense. The thing about trolls is, they actually mean it 😉
@14: ‘…you understand that by breathlessly labeling any criticism of Israel, the nation state, “blood libel” you are removing any actual meaning from that phrase?’
@9 very much didn’t say “any criticism” constituted “blood libel.” He specified a single term: “Why stop with the false accusations of genocide? If you’re going to continue this modern blood libel…” and then listed other accusations which could be made, all of them obviously false. That you need to use such a juvenile attempt at deflection via false logic demonstrates you know he has a point.
The unbelievable dishonesty with which the Stranger, and supportive commenters, have abused the word, “genocide,” marks the lowest of many low points in the civil discourse here. It started with the pointed refusal to call 10/7 a genocide, and then has become an endless series of false accusations against Israel, and anyone who dares to defend Israel here. If getting called on it hurts, then maybe you might want to think about why.
that Body Count is
ludicrous its likely Oodles
higher ~ Hamas’s got an Agenda
too & Punishes all Deniers. end the Madness.
perhaps
Thedonold’ll
do something
Unexpected. suprise
Us mister “president.”
sans
Mass
Casualties
if you Would
sir?
@4, TLDR: It doesn’t matter how many Gazans die as long as they were killed without American money.
@32 “Any” was my word. Falsely conflating the nation state of Israel with “Jews” is disingenuous and unhelpful. Of course seeing as you frequently do the same your accusation of “juvenile attempt at deflection via false logic” is obvious projection.
@cannotseeforest;toogottdamnmanyTrees!
no
dummy
(& WTF? ii!ii !)
but Not Sponsoring
Terrorism’s a Great Place
to Start. as if we had no pull.
tho
bibi couldn’t
Possibly disrespect
(formerly-) smokin’ Joe Biden
any more. AIPAC’s got this once-
Proud Country on its knees to nutnyahoo
we
Seriously
NEEDED a Disrupter.
but Not this fucking One.
@11, You are missing the forest for the trees. They must participate in the delivery of coercive force by the U.N. according to your own citations. Even if they don’t provide arms or soldiers, they are required to provide something to precipitate and support the U.N.’s combat. If they provide cash or territory for the U.N’s use of force they are part of the application of force, with non-combatants in the middle.
They can supply forces (be it from a standing Army, or an ad hoc one raised to meet U.N. obligations, or for self-defense), or they can provide bases, and other aids to the U.N. is applying force. The whole U.N. scheme anticipates war and the application of force, with non-combatants caught in the crossfire.
The point is that averagebob is full of shit that once a war breaks out, non-combatants won’t be caught in the crossfire if the U.N. gets involved.
Either the attacking state or group, the defending state or group, a multi-national force (e.g. NATO), or a U.N. force, or some combination of the above, puts non-combatants in the cross-fire, if the Articles of the U.N. Charter in question are excercised. The U.N. can’t take away anyone’s agency with a piece of paper, and the only way that non-combatants get out of the crossfire is if the parties voluntarily stop fighting (which means the U.N. isn’t required), the U.N., or someone else makes them stop fighting by force. If its the latter, Gazans are no better off. The only thing that changes is the color of the uniforms putting non-combatants in the crossfire.
Barring the former, the introduction of the U.N. does nothing to keep non-combatants out of the crossfire. If you are a Gazan does it matter if you are caught between the IDF and Hamas, or some international force and Hamas. If you aren’t a Gazan caught between combatant forces, because Israel, or the U.N. don’t exercise those U.N. Charter rights, then you are an Israeli being mowed down by Hamas while nobody does anything to stop them.
@14, When Israel has been adjudicated to have violated any human rights norms, then we will worry about it.
Like in any court proceeding, until final adjudication, no norms have been determined to have been violated. Allegations, and actual violations are two separate things.
Of course by the time there is adjudication, the parties will have come to some sort of ceasefire, or other interim halt to hostilities, and the case will be moot.
The U.N. and international tribunals don’t remove non-combatants from crossfire, one-side, or both, deciding not to fight anymore does. The only time the U.N. has actually ended the slaughter of non-combatants is when they have put their thumb on one-side or the other of the conflict with force to get one or both sides to cry uncle sooner.
@35: ‘ “Any” was my word.’
Yes, that was my point. You didn’t address @9’s point, but tried to minimize it via deflection.
@9’s point was anti-Jewish bigots, who already can’t tell the difference between fact and obvious fictions, aren’t likely to make such fine distinctions between the Jewish State, and Jews worldwide. (The childish and bitter use of the term, “Zionist Entity,” as a synonym for Israel, seen at the UW protest encampment this past Spring, doesn’t help.) Hence Nikolai’s concern that the false accusation of “genocide,” against Israel could lead to other false accusations, against Jews in Seattle.
“Of course seeing as you frequently do the same…”
Examples of which would be… ?
@19: thirteen12 @14 wasn’t referring to anything I wrote, but to Nikolai’s comment @9. (Not that you’d ever let mere facts get in the way of your vitriol, but I thought you might want to pay more attention next time.)
@20, So assuming that is true for the sake of argument, what army are those groups going to use to stop the carnage for those non-combatants? What army will the U.N. use? If they do use that army then the non-combatants will be caught between not just Hamas and the IDF, but between Hamas, the IDF, and troops supplied by member states and put under U.N. Command.
If you are a Gazan, does it matter if the artillery shell or bomb that kills you was fired by Hamas, the IDF, or some army supplied to the U.N. by one of its member states? Of course not. It won’t be safe until the combat stops, and the combat won’t stop until someone defeats Hamas, the IDF, or both, which would require, paradoxically, more combat in an amongst the non-combatants.
Resolutions or court judgments are worth the paper they are printed on, without the ability to use the force required to get compliance with them.
@30 Of course you are incapable of giving a citation to substantiate your smears. Like a typical far right thug defending genocide, ethnic cleansing and apartheid, all you have is slander.
@29, “The Israel Defense Forces, responding to the article, confirmed that its rules of engagement had changed when the war broke out, but maintained that all practices remained consistent with international law.”
International law expressly permits collateral damage. If it didn’t Article 51, which guarantees the right of self-defense, would have to be repealed, as would have to be repealed as well as many of the Articles that precede it.
Definitions of, and limitations on, acceptable collateral damage are vague enough to drive a truck through the loopholes of international law.
@ab
see
That’s
the Beauty of
a i –🔨’s out of
Our hands! possible
deniability its master’s voice
on steroids dirty deeds done dirt Cheap
paid
for with
Our Tax $$$?
wouldn’t
That be a
Side-splitter!
@41, So how are Gazans better off stuck between 30,000 to 40,000 IDF troops and a 50,000 troop U.N. Genocide/Hostage Rescue Team that would shoot at each other if the U.N. were to try and force Israel to stop? Would they also be stuck between Hamas and U.N. Genocide/Hostage rescue team?
If you are a Gazan, does it matter if its an artillery shell fired by Hamas, the IDF, or some U.N. Genocide/Hostage Rescue Force, that kills you?
If Hamas or the IDF were willing to voluntarily stop, then why would the U.N. need to be involved to force them to stop? If they are involved to forcibly stop Hamas and the IDF, they are still between forces firing artillery, bombs, and bullets at each other.
@36: “(formerly-) smokin’ Joe Biden”
If he’s still President, and the “genocide” remains ongoing, then why are you not still calling him “Genocide Joe”?
Oh, that’s right; it was just a campaign-season political smear, in the form of a vile personal attack upon the leader of the Democratic Party. Once you’d helped deliver the election to Trump, you could stop pretending it was accurate — or even worth typing any more. Amazing, how strongly-stated outrage instantly becomes utterly disposable garbage.
“AIPAC’s got this once-
Proud Country on its knees to nutnyahoo…”
There’s a federal law which requires the US to arm Israel. Pres. Biden did suspend some arms sales to Israel this past year, in accordance with our laws. This was not enough for the All Genocide All the Time Crowd, but they don’t care about our laws anyway. Conspiracy theories are more their style.
@20 “Genocide is taking place in Gaza,” [Doctor Without Borders] says”
So, Doctors without Borders says that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and our resident genocide deniers still claim that genocide in Gaza is the figment of our imagination
@21 “Amnesty International investigation concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza “
So, Amnesty International says that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and our resident genocide deniers still claim that genocide in Gaza is the figment of our imagination
@22 “Israel’s Crime of Extermination, Acts of Genocide in Gaza”
So, Human Rights Watch says that Israel is committing acts of genocide in Gaza and our resident genocide deniers still claim that genocide in Gaza is the figment of our imagination
@23 “UN Special Committee finds Israel’s warfare methods in Gaza consistent with genocide, including use of starvation as weapon of war”
So, UN Special Committee says that Israel is committing acts of genocide in Gaza and our resident genocide deniers still claim that genocide in Gaza is the figment of our imagination