Vice President Kamala Harris said in a meeting Saturday with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi that Washington will not allow for the forced relocation of Palestinians or any redrawing of the current border of the Gaza Strip.
“Under no circumstances will the United States permit the forced relocation of Palestinians from Gaza or the West Bank, the besiegement of Gaza, or the redrawing of the borders of Gaza,” Harris said, according to a statement from the vice president’s office.
And what will the US do to prevent it then? Cut funding? Cut military aid? Declare War on Terror?
Nobody wants it to happen, the truth is that even the Arab world wants Palestine beaten and shoved into a corner, so they can keep using them as an excuse to hate. They don’t actually care about Palestinians, neither does Europe, that’s why they don’t want refugees or take in Palestinians who want out.
Citations?
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so many replies to this and yet not one of them has a link. i wonder why they’re having so much trouble backing up their positions
Lol nobody shits on Muslims as much as other Muslims. Take Xinjiang, for example. Nobody fucking cares. Arabs always hated Palestinians too. Israel supplied more humanitarian aid to Gaza than whole of Muslim world combined (gifts to Hamas don’t count as humanitarian aid).
I don’t think Israeli aid counts as “aid” because it’s their obligation under intentional law governing occupation, and they have fallen short of these commitments.
But it’s true, Arab governments don’t give shit about Palestinians. I mean, most governments around the world barely give a shit about their own people. The leaders of Egypt and Jordon and Lebanon have never demonstrated an interest in Palestinian statehood.
Your talking about countries that with unstable economy, can be easily have riots or someone can easily fund and ISIS like group to have a civil war?
Most of the Arab countries have taken people during war with expectations they can go back, but then they couldn’t because Isreal refuse to snd stole land.
Blaming Arab countries at this time without any historical or recent understanding is an attempt to shift the blame and conversation to something not important.
People are dying, kids are dying, US government send weapons to Isreal, and then bluntly lying to people. Lets keep the conversation focus…
Nobody shits on Muslims as much as racists like you.
The Arab world has already taken millions of Palestinians.
Pretty sure those countries doesn’t want yet more for:
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the same reason no country wants a higher per capita percentage of refugees these days and
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because they don’t want to give Israel and the US excuses to drone bomb them looking for HAMAS terrorists and
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countries on the border with Israel don’t want it to have a reason for coming over their borders all the time, because that would likely end in border redrawings
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What do you mean you won’t permit it? You mean you will actually try to stop Israel from doing it? Will you stop giving Israel money?
Or are you just going to do nothing?
No she just means Israel will have to kill them all.
That’s what I got from this.
Shitty how politics has become nothing but coded language that we need to decipher to figure out what’s really going on.
Politics has always been about spin
Shitty how politics has become nothing but coded language that we need to decipher to figure out what’s really going on.
If you think that’s actually what she meant I’d love to hear what you think about the moon landing
Israel: k we’ll just kill them all then. Thanks for the money and weapons btw
Relocation wont make US any money. Conflict will
The Israel-Palestine conflict does not make money for the US, the country. It makes money for a minority of people who have significant shares in companies from the military industry, who are enriching themselves from the taxes of their fellow citizens to finance Israel’s policies.
I think palestinian relocation is more of a threat to western european refugee systems, if anything. Those consequences would be rotten.
This might be the first time I’ve heard a demand imposed on Israel from the US during this recent escalation. Hopefully, the first of many.
i wonder if it was a coincidence it wasnt biden
They make Kamala say all the stuff that they fear might backfire. She was also put in charge of stopping illegal immigration, knowing they really didn’t have any way to actually do it.
Mere talk is not “imposing” anything.
The politcians in power in the US are just using talkie-talk to try to hold off potential problems with a significant portion of their natural voters’ outright abhorring Genocide and thus being unwilling to vote them back into power in the upcoming elections due to their support for those activelly comitting one.
Talk is the cheapest way there is to project an impression one way whilst continuing to act in exactly the opposite way.
Is it “mere talk” when Biden says US support for Israel is unconditional? No, we can and should criticize him for that because those words encourage Israel to act without restraint. But, conversely, when the US signals that they will not support actions like forced relocation, we should also see that as a corrective, not “mere talk”.
To your point, in IR theory, there also exists phenomena such as the paradox of empty promises, where making unfulfilled promises can worsen human rights. But that claim is more nuanced: the problem occurs when promises are empty. That doesn’t mean all promises are empty or promising doesn’t matter. Public declarations are a necessary step (but insufficient on their own) to justify further action.
Your oversimplified what I wrote and then from that highly reductive take you built an overcomplicated argument.
If certain statements are reliably not followed by action that further the state objectives then “they’re all talk”, if they are reliably followed by such action then they’re not.
Whilst statements by themselves can logically neither be accepted as trully meant nor dismissed as “just talk” in the absence of any track record at all (i.e. first time your hear such things from such people) because there has not yet been time to observe if they’re followed by action or inaction leading to a conclusion about the statements being meant or “just talk”, when there is a track record one can most certainly extrapolate the likelihood of such statements now being meant or “just talk” if in the past such actors reliably followed such statements with action or inaction.
As it so happen, US Administrations, Democrat and Republican, including those were Biden was, invariably followed statements were they claimed they were going to make Israel do or not do something, with no effective action towards their state objectives or even with actions which were counter those objectives.
In fact the there not being a 2 state solution in Palestine even though various US Adminidtrations claimed to favour it is exactly because NOT ONCE has any of those Administrations acted to punish the Israeli Government for their actions against the Oslo Agreements, quite the contrary: Israel has kept being supported economically and military all the while it acted against the wished stated by the various US Administrations.
It is thus entirelly logical to expect that statements from the US Administration about imposing anything on Israel are “just talk”, and totally illogical to ignore the track record of decades of “stating one objective and the acting in opposition to it” by the US with regards to Israel.
Nowhere in your first comment do you make anything like the argument in your second comment. You say that my summary is reductive and that I built an “over complicated argument” by talking about broken promises. But then you essentially argue that this will be a broken promise!
Your second argument is more reasonable, and not at all over complicated, which is why I anticipated it. The problem with your fatalist take is that “mere talk” precedes, not only broken promises, but also fulfilled promises. Honestly, if your cynical take is right, then there’s no reason to expect anything from any party ever. Cynicism is depressingly fashionable on the left.
“Demand” from the otherwise completely powerless VP.
Seems legit
Yeah, it’s a long way from sufficient, but this is huge progress from active support for genocide.
Call me when they stop actively supporting genocide. Empty words are empty.
Kinda silly in my opinion. What exactly do they think the systematic destruction of Gaza is? People should live in the rubble?
They can’t rebuild since those kinds of tools could be used for weapons according to Israel.
I see a lot of similarities between WWII Jewish ghettos and modern day Gaza. It looks like an aggregate oppressed becomes the oppressor syndrome, but I’m probably wrong.
Uh huh.
And yet she’s giving Israel bombs to destroy people’s homes. Literally forcibly relocating them. Never mind that 70% of Gazans were forcibly relocated from their land 75 years ago.
These statements are just cover for more Israeli murder. It’s designed to make people feel complacent.
Wait so 70% of Gazans were forcibly relocated, why 50% of Gaza are children under 18…
Make up your mind over your made up numbers please.
And calling this war “Israeli murder” is ignoring the existence of actual terrorists who keep innocent civilians hostage, and who targeted attacked and murdered over 1,000 innocents.
Yeah, I call people who kill 5000 children with bombs murderers.
Oh damn I guess churchill is a murderer monster huh.
Intention matters. The fact that you ignore it, is bad.
Yeah, when the IDF purposely bomb schools, hospitals, evacuation corridors which they told to evacuate through, UN facilitates, etc. that makes them murderers.
Dude those same civilian facilities are proven to store artillery. Once a site is being used for war purposes, don’t be surprised that it’s being destroyed - in a war.
Everybody is criticizing Israel for bombing UN facilities, while no one critisizes Hamas for storing ammunition in said facilities. That’s just hypocrisy.
Fun fact. Murder does not justify more murder.
Oh so war is never justified then huh? When you’ve been massacared with intent for further destruction by that same people, you can’t retaliate, you’re just supposed to sit back and cry about it. Sure, ok.
Oh look words that aren’t the words I said.
“murder does not justify more murder”
The murder which is happening is by a war. If you don’t know that, you’re living under a rock. And what I said, is that this war is justified. So yes, this is exactly what you said, you just deny it. War = murder. “Murder isn’t justified” -> “war isn’t justified”. Very simple logic.
No. You don’t get to conflate war crimes with normal casualties.
Whatever, I really don’t care about what you think. You can blame it all on one side, ignoring the ruthlessness of the other on their enemies and even on their own citizens. Just ignore Hamas hiding guns in schools, ignore them firing rockets from public parks, ignore them targeting civilians (with no military infrastructure/personnel). Just ignore it all, and blame the jews for everything. Just like the 1930s. “War crimes” my ass. If you really cared about war crimes you would’ve complained to Hamas, not the IDF.
Um… They’ve already been pushed out of their homes and relocated. That was under the “circumstance” of Israel invading and killing them. I don’t think the phrase “under no circumstances” applies here.
Better pushed out than slaughtered like Be’eri.
Until the money faucet turns off, Israel will keep doing their thing
Will there be any Palestinians left to relocate when this genocide is over?
That’s why the “threat” means nothing.
Lol what? Does anyone here think anyone in Israel is going to kill 2 million Gazans? It’s like no one here knows the difference between mass killings and wars. You don’t evacuate civilians in mass killings, you slaughter them in their homes (sort of like what Hamas did on 7/10)
And what Israel is doing now. I think the issue here is that we get the sense that the only thing keeping it from killing all 2 million Gazans is the international pressure.
Literally way too late for that and forced relocation was one of the myriad of reasons why this bullshit keeps happening.
Did she gave the wink and the nod towards the Israeli delegates during the speech or was it afterwards, backstage?!
I mean, it’s just going to be like past big conflicts. Where Israel claims people were not forced to relocate.
Folks won’t be “forced,” but their lives and their family’s lives will be at great risk if they don’t relocate - so a lot of people are going to relocate if they have the option. If they don’t, they’re basically sleeping on a shooting range.
By “past big conflicts” you mean the 48 war…? Because that’s the only war where that happened
And you can reasonably assume that things are different from 70 years ago, and that nobody, not even Israel, wants Gaza now.
But tut-tutting israel while civilians are left in place to be bombed is fine. But don’t you dare move them!
Oh yeah, what are you gonna do, bomb Israel?
Nobody gives a fuck what the US says. Worthless empty lies and promises.
Except sometimes the threats are backed up if it’s convenient enough. The US doesn’t always intentionally lie, there’s just not much continuity of policies across administrations, so even if one president does genuinely agree to something- they can’t really make their successor follow it. Especially if the successor strongly disagrees with them on most things.
