US calls for immediate ceasefire in Gaza with draft UN resolution
US calls for immediate ceasefire in Gaza with draft UN resolution
www.theguardian.com
US calls for immediate ceasefire in Gaza with draft UN resolution
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Pretty wild how the nation that vetoed calls for a ceasefire calls for a ceasefire, but I'll take it.
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UN released an analysis of satellite imagery showing that 35% of buildings in Gaza had been damaged or destroyed during Israel’s offensive, which has claimed almost 32,000 Palestinian lives.
I am speechless, in what world this is justifiable. Just for perspective, before the war only 30K of the Palestinians were believed to have links to Hamas. That's less than 1.5% of the population of Gaza.
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Apartheid Israel has killed more than 1% of Palestinians in Gaza (70% are women and children) in 4 months. This is equivalent to killing 3 million Americans in 4 months. The death toll is now past the Bosnian Genocide. More needs to be done than just a ceasefire; they need to be sanctioned like Russia and other pariah states are.
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Took the genocidal shitbags long enough. They get no credit for doing it now; especially bc it's obvious they're only doing it to salvage Democrat chances at the polls.
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repeatedly vetoes every UN resolution against Israel
drafts resolution for Ceasfire on US (and Israel) terms against Gaza
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"progress" and profit
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This is a step, but i didn't see any timeframe mentioned in the article and definitely didn't see the word i was looking for, permanent.
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"It said an “immediate and sustained ceasefire” was “imperative” adding that “towards that end” unequivocal support should be given to the hostage negotiations."
Read the danged article folks, it's just saying "a ceasefire would be good, they need to agree to our hostage deal to do that." They're not calling for a ceasefire unequivocally, it's a continuation of the Biden position from a new venue in the hope that it will, aesthetically, look like they're doing something.
At least until we see the resolution we should be careful about just granting Joe credit foe this.
Edit: That is the resolution, it's literally just the Biden-Israel line of "agree to our deal and we'll stop for 6 weeks" which they are peddling as if that amounts to a durable ceasefire.
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Fucking finally. Enough people got Biden scared enough to make a serious move. It's horrifying that it took this long, with countless lives lost, for it to happen.
I hope this will meaningfully improve the situation, and not serve as a slap on Israel's wrist. Permenent peace is a necessity, but I'll take a ceasefire at all any day of the week.
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I'm so glad to hear this. I wish it were issued a long time ago, but anyway.
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Say what?
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The uncommitted votes are having an effect! All of the little worms telling me that pressuring Biden was pointless and I should just support him to stop Trump can eat my ass. This is a result of the public pressure his administration is facing. Our voices matter.
This isn't good enough. We need an unconditional ceasefire to then negotiate on hostages, but this is another step in the right direction.
We did that.
Please keep going. The US needs to turn on the Netanyahu government. If the west has any principles it needs to show that nobody is exempt from justice. Not even a "strong ally" who's people have suffered from historical horrors.
They need to be tried for war crimes.
I know you didn't mean bad by it, but talking about justice like that? I know we don't live in times of Hannibal and an eye for an eye isn't productive or progressive at all, but Israel, and not just the current scpagoat Bibi the Genocider, has decades of oppression and genocide they have to pay for.
To even think about justice, Israel needs to:
I don't know why the Jewish people need an ethno-state as if this is the 19th century, but this would be the starters for a justice without uprooting the whole people from the place they have been living in with the land given to them by British lordship and the UN mandate, both of whom have turned a blind eye to genocide, warcrimes and invasions Israel has inflicted in the Middle-East for decades.
Going back to main topic, I don't think Biden will do or say anything about the current landgrab and damage Israel has caused. He'll just play to the downfall of the current scapegoat of the Zionist endeavour, after he has been a good boy for it, and shut the matter until another scapegoat and and excuse for more genocide and landgrab is prepared for the next decade.
How do you know that? Your making an assumption by inference
The Biden campaign is openly troubled by the uncommitted vote campaign, so this seems like the obvious next step. Is there an alternative explanation? Why reverse course now? What else changed?
Don't be obtuse. Its not clever.
If you're absolutely insistent on defending your comment, start by telling us all how the opposite assumption, that Biden is completely unaffected by voter opinion in an election year makes more sense.
Please take this seriously. I am really, really tired of snarky quips.