The ongoing tragedy in Sudan finally gets a headline but of course the Intercept is just using the 6 million displaced people there as a prop to talk about the Israel–Hamas war some more. Apparently there's a paucity of coverage on Gaza; thank god the Intercept is around to shine a spotlight on these forgotten issues.
Late last year, 50 humanitarian organizations asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken to make an atrocity determination related to a conflict that was drawing global attention.
“Based on the State Department’s careful analysis of the law and available facts, I have determined that members of the SAF and the RSF have committed war crimes in Sudan,” he said in a December 6 statement.
Such a determination can have important foreign policy implications, creating a legal designation for international crimes usually accompanied by limits on weapons and security assistance, economic sanctions, and other penalties.
On a near-daily basis, a State Department spokesperson takes questions from the media and is routinely pressed about the latest atrocity alleged to have been committed by Israeli forces, whether it’s gunfire aimed at civilians in a church; the bombing of hospitals, mosques, schools, universities, or residential buildings; or the cutting off of food, fuel, and medicine.
All told, the U.S. has given Israel $158 billion in bilateral assistance and missile defense funding, more than any other country since World War II, according to a March 2023 report by the Congressional Research Service.
These statements are inconsistent with the administration’s own conventional arms transfer policy, in which President Biden committed to ‘engage in appropriate monitoring’ to ensure that U.S. weapons are used in accordance with international human rights and humanitarian law obligations,” said Chappell.
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No, it's well within words what you think is going on over there--just awful stupid. Your misinformation is terrible, get out of your HAMAS information bubble.
Finally; an article that highlights the humanitarian catastrophe of the 6 million displaced Sudanese... oh, no. They're just being used as a prop so the Intercept can talk about the Israel Hamas war some more. Thank god; they have such a paucity of coverage of that.
Were you one of those people who thought that clean wars were possible? They are not. This is just a war and like all wars, it's horrible, with civilians paying the heaviest price. You don't need a genocide for that.
The largest demographic group in Israel, the Mizrahi, look indistinguishable from other Middle-Eastern people. You couldn't tell them apart from Palestinians or any other Arabs. Bringing American notions of race into this is a very foolish endeavor.