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U.S. Complicity In Gaza Genocide Set In Stone

by Oui Thu Jan 16th, 2025 at 10:12:08 PM EST

Will refute the latest arguments used by both Joe Biden and Antony Blinken these four years has strengthened America and its allies in the world.

Many reactions across the Western world saying the Biden speech was preposterous in its claims. Blinken faced much criticism from within his own State department and whistleblowers ... even Israelis have harsh criticism of 15 months letting Netanyahu and his war crimes run unimpeded. Trump's Abraham Accords are as dead as the Death Sea scrolls.

Blinken: “Please respect the process” as Husseini is manhandled by security


After 50 Years, Biden’s Accomplishments

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says ceasefire deal still being ironed out | Atlanta News First |

Netanyahu’s Likud party denies ceasefire deal marks end to Gaza war

After National Security minister Itamar Ben Gvir says his Otzma Yehudit party will leave the coalition if the government approves the hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas announced yesterday, the ruling Likud party says, “Anyone who dissolves the right-wing government will be remembered as an eternal disgrace.”

In a statement, the party denies the far-right minister’s claim that the deal constitutes an end to the war against Hamas.

“Contrary to Ben Gvir’s comments, the existing deal allows Israel to return to fighting under American guarantees, receive the weapons and means of warfare it needs, maximize the number of living hostages that will be released, maintain full control of the Philadelphi Route [on the Egyptian border] and the security buffer that surrounds the entire Gaza Strip, and achieve dramatic security achievements that will ensure Israel’s security for generations.”

Too Little, Too Late

Norway hosted Summit in support of an independent State of Palestine

Strong international support for Palestine and the two-state solution at Global Alliance meeting in Oslo

It is clear from our meeting that a vast majority of the world's countries support a two-state solution. A just solution that safeguards the Palestinian people's right to self-determination is a prerequisite for lasting peace, and cannot be put off to a later date,' said Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide.

Norway Hosts Global Talks on Middle East Peace | Oslo Norway | Middle East Peace Talks LIVE -N18G |

Resolution Issued by the Extraordinary Arab and Islamic Summit | SPA - 12 Nov 2024 |

Arab and Muslim leaders reaffirm support for Palestinian cause at end of Riyadh summit | Arab News |

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by Oui (Oui) on Thu Jan 16th, 2025 at 10:33:17 PM EST
US President Biden says he urged Israeli Premier Netanyahu to avoid carpet-bombing Gaza | Anadolu Agency |

Outgoing president has been criticized for not doing more to stop Israel's deadly attacks in Gaza Strip, which have killed nearly 47,000 people

THOU SHALT NOT KILL

Dresden - Rotterdam - London - Coventry - Hiroshima - Nagasaki - Hanoi

At 8:15 a.m. on August 6, 1945, a bright flash set the sky above Hiroshima ablaze. The first atomic bomb in history had just been dropped on the largest metropolis in western Japan.

What you can do, we can do better 😡

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by Oui (Oui) on Fri Jan 17th, 2025 at 11:04:45 PM EST

ICC prosecutor defends war crimes warrant for Netanyahu, says Israel made `no real effort' to probe allegations | TOI |

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by Oui (Oui) on Fri Jan 17th, 2025 at 11:05:44 PM EST
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'I realised we're such hypocrites': how growing numbers of US veterans were moved to protest over Gaza | The Guardian - 16 Jan 2025 |

Former US army ranger Stoker, 34, began campaigning accidentally. On 10 October 2023, he was at home in Austin, Texas, watching on television the Israeli military bombing Gaza in retaliation for the murderous Hamas attack in Israel on 7 October.

"I called my friend Travis, 'Are you seeing what I'm seeing?'" Stoker says.

The two self-professed "nerds" had met almost a decade earlier playing Dungeons and Dragons. Travis Jansz*, a former artillery officer, had done two tours in Iraq and Stoker four in Afghanistan.

"I was like, 'Are they seriously dropping 1,000lb JDAMs [joint direct attack munitions] in one of the most densely populated places on Earth?'" Stoker recalls. "It was so egregious, it was so insane, that we had to just call each other to make sure we weren't hallucinating. To not be gaslit by what was going on."

The ordnance being used, they say, create a secondary blast of over-pressure that can injure or kill anyone within a 50-metre radius, with children the most vulnerable. A signoff on the use of such bombs, they say, would carry an understanding they would create a high number of civilian casualties.

"I'm watching all these ex-air force colonels," says Stoker, "these officers who are now pundits for CNN and MSNBC and Fox News, get up in front of the nation, on legacy media and just straight up lie about American targeting practices. What's acceptable, what adheres to the law of land warfare. They were just absolutely lying about everything."

Feeling "cognitive dissonance", Stoker took to social media. At that time he had 155 Instagram followers, "actual friends". His searing Texas-flavoured takedowns of Israel Defense Forces propaganda using his warfare knowledge quickly gained him attention. When the IDF posted a photo on their X account of a small cache of electronics they claimed were Hamas's suicide vest-making materials. Stoker countered: "It looks like the IDF robbed an electronic store so they can charge their Game Boys from the 1990's. But explosive belts? Where's the composition B?" The photo, he said, showed items used to charge devices using solar panels while the electricity to Gaza had been cut.

Now with 352,000 Instagram followers and a podcast, Colonial Outcasts, Stoker has become one of the most vocal anti-war veterans.

"As combat veterans we know deep down that we are seeing war crimes," he says. "And how are those defensible? We have to speak out."

Former army captain Brittany Ramos DeBarros, 36, is a director of About Face: Veterans Against the War, founded by and for veterans of the post 9/11 era. For her group a rise in participation began in 2020 with the murder of George Floyd and has been steadily climbing for the past 14 months.

"Every time the mask is kind of pulled off - where it becomes harder and harder to cling to these fantasies that we are fighting for democracy and human rights and all of these things - more veterans reach out," says Ramos DeBarros. "The vast majority of us joined the military for some economic reason but we also justify or make peace with that through the belief that we are going to help people or be of service or uphold the values we are told our country is about."



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