After Israel killed aid workers in Gaza, the US says it has not found evidence of Israel violating humanitarian law.

After Israel killed seven aid workers in Gaza, the US says it has not found any incidents of Israel violating international humanitarian law in the past six months. An Al Jazeera probe concluded the World Central Kitchen vehicles were deliberately hit.

    • queermunist she/her
      393·
      9 months ago

      Israel is committing genocide with American bombs and American protection and American approval. This war could be ended if Biden just stopped giving them more bombs and stopped protecting Israel from the consequences of its actions. Israel is the 51st State, America’s unsinkable aircraft carrier, it’s an American genocide. We don’t get to hide behind a proxy and pretend we are not directly responsible.

    • Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      313·
      9 months ago

      “Israel” is a US colony; it’s entire existence hinges on the latter.

      Its formation used common british colonization tactics [III], with companies literally named “Colonization Commission”, “Jewish Colonial Trust” and the like.

      Theodor Herzl, founder of the colonial ideology he called “zionism”, was himself also just a racist colonizer by his own admission, and saw it as bringing ‘civilization’ to ‘barbarians’ as the rest of Europe did when they were colonizing and enslaving Africa and Asia:

      “We should there form a portion of a rampart of Europe against Asia, an outpost of civilization as opposed to barbarism. We should as a neutral State remain in contact with all Europe, which would have to guarantee our existence.” Source [II]

      Only difference now is that the US has been the de facto leader of the imperial core since WW2, no longer UK in Europe.

      And capitalist governments work for the interests and profit of capitalists rather than workers as is the reason for the genocide here (keeping the middle east unstable and unable to unite against imperialism with a colony right in the middle of Africa and Asia), so yes that does matter.

      The government does not represent you since you’re not a capitalist, so trying to change something as massive as a genocide through it is pointless, specially when the only other option is just as bad, if not worse. The only thing that will change it is organizing and pressuring it from the outside.

      Rather than “intervening” like you want other countries to do against a nuclear state, has the US considered not directly funding and facilitating the genocide?

      • queermunist she/her
        10·
        9 months ago

        “Israel” is a US colony; it’s entire existence hinges on the latter.

        I think I disagree with this.

        Puerto Rico is a colony. There’s a very clear difference in how the empire treats colonies and how it treats extensions of itself. Israel, rather than being a colony, is actually just an extension of the US empire. It’s like the 51st state, it’s an equal partner in the imperial project.

            • StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml
              121·
              9 months ago

              So youre saying we should stop sending arms and money to Russia?

              Wait, no that can’t be it, so we should send arms and money to Palestine? Based AF

              But to be serious though, the difference is a country has not brought up formal accusations of genocide in Ukraine before the ICJ. Also:

        • Sagittarii@lemm.ee
          12·
          9 months ago

          Love how you ignore everything they said and bring up something completely unrelated to derail the conversation lmao

          Edit: but, what are your feelings about the us colony’s genocide in palestine?

    • Altair@lemmy.world
      227·
      9 months ago

      whatever country you’re pretending to be from

      The american chauvinist cannot comprehend people being from other countries