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U.S. Warns A Gaza Ceasefire Would Only Benefit Humanity

www.theonion.com U.S. Warns A Gaza Ceasefire Would Only Benefit Humanity

WASHINGTON—Explaining why the United States would not call on Israel to end its continuous airstrikes on Palestinian civilians, the White House warned Wednesday that a ceasefire in Gaza would only serve to benefit humanity. “We know there are voices across the world calling for a ceasefire, but what...

“We know there are voices across the world calling for a ceasefire, but what everyone needs to understand is that the only people who stand to gain from halting the bombing campaign are people who deeply value human life,”

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Missiles aren't going to sell themselves.
I do not support the Hamas terrorist attacks against Israel. That’s my Shibboleth. What Hamas did is unspeakable evil and unforgivable.

That said, Palestinians are human beings and around half of their population are children. When you cut off food, water, electricity, and bomb civilian areas, including the cultural hub of all of Gaza, to dust, maybe your retaliation has gone too far.

What if the prisoners held by Hamas are being treated humanely and taken care of? All this mass slaughter to get them back will look even more barbarous.
Funny-sad-real.
Somebody please Photoshop emperor palpatine's laser hands onto Biden in this photo.
TIL Jews aren't human.
These words are meaningless. If that’s really how you feel then you’d stop propping up Israel. You won’t stop doing that because that would make it way harder to hoard resources.

Just more lip service from a glorified politician.
In reality it would benefit US having more time to position forces in the middle east and finally properly start that war with Iran. So not really sure if ceasefire would really net more human lives saved in the end.
Are there any onion stories about the other perspective? Everyday there is more of the same with a one sided view that the US and Israel are to blame for everything. Yeah... I got it and it was funny.

But if the same viewpoint is repeated often enough then it's no longer satire. Now it's obnoxious bashing.
The onion editors should volunteer themselves as human shields on Palestinian and Israeli side, to force a ceasefire then. Humanity will benefit even more.

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