AOC decries ‘unfolding genocide’ in Gaza, urges halting weapons to Israel
AOC decries ‘unfolding genocide’ in Gaza, urges halting weapons to Israel
Progressive US legislator Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivers impassioned speech condemning abuses against Palestinians.
Better late than never I guess
no world in which the forced famine of 1.1 million people cannot be considered genocide
She should consider also applying this knowledge to the embargo on the Cuban people
Edit: Obviously not trying to downplay the genocide in Gaza if it came across like that.
I think she's done that as well
https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/press-releases/statement-rep-ocasio-cortez-demonstrations-cuba
We also must name the U.S. contribution to Cuban suffering: our sixty-year-old embargo. Last month, once again, the U.N. voted overwhelmingly to call on the United States to lift its embargo on Cuba. The embargo is absurdly cruel and, like too many other U.S. policies targeting Latin Americans, the cruelty is the point. I outright reject the Biden administration’s defense of the embargo. It is never acceptable for us to use cruelty as a point of leverage against every day people
Ooh based
AOC has been calling for a cease fire and more aid since last year. She might not have used the word genocide until now, but it's not like she has been cool with things up till now either.
Honestly this whole drama is so immature.
"What Israel is doing is terrible, on top of their mistreatment of the Palestinian people for decades they've now crossed a line and seem to be willing to remove them all from existence. This is a genocide, and we should enforce a cease fire and an embargo."
"What Israel is doing is terrible, on top of their mistreatment of the Palestinian people for decades they've now crossed a line and are killing people indiscriminately. The fact that some people are calling it a genocide is telling of the immense gravity of the situation, and we should enforce a cease fire and an embargo."
"How could you NOT call it a genocide??!?!?"
Both statements are virtually the same thing, have the same worries and are calling for the same solutions, yet the later get shat on because it doesn't virtue signal. There are lots of seemingly dumb reasons why politicians and PR departments may choose to use some terms and avoid others, and some of those decisions are mere pragmatism that doesn't change in essence their goal or effect. I think AOC has flaws, just like almost any politician, but making a gigantic deal out of this smells like it's been promoted by grifters looking to start drama.
Pretty bad comparison when Cubans have higher life expectancy than Americans.
Dont be fooled. Shes doing this to not be voted out, not because she cares
Look this is true but AT LEAST it's how politics is supposed to work, it's not about choosing the most ethically and morally consistent person, it's about having a person in the seat who will vote the way their constituents want, no more
She looks like a 60 year old cat lady in that photo
I really do wonder how much of Gaza and its people are left standing and alive? Like what the real numbers of deaths are as the fog of war makes it so hard to really know. I fear once the world really reacts it will be too late. Maybe already is. So upsetting. All the wars are upsetting to me and so unnecessary.
Targeting the hospitals was a deliberate tactic to make this kind of information harder to reliably gather and disseminate.
And how many are not severely traumatized. Probably close to zero.
Nothing 'unfolding' about it. It's been mission genocide since day one.
Yeah, it's more "intensifying".
AOC knows this, and still votes for or present on all of Israel's military aid packages.. Like most democrats, she knows how to say one thing for optics, but do the exact opposite.
The controlled opposition art of slow-rolling performative dissent. People fall for it every single time.
I really wish people would see through AOC's crocodile tears when it comes to Israel... she has consistently voted FOR all of Israel's funding bills in congress.
She's even to the right of the rest of "the squad", and was the only member to not vote against a 1B USD package to fund Israel's Iron Dome.
The thing about urges is you don’t have to act on them
After AOC voted present rather than no on a 1B USD funding bill for Israel's iron dome:
According to the congresswoman, "In the macro of national impact, I probably should have gone with my values - which would be to vote 'No' - but in the micro, I do believe this created a window in our community to bring all folks to the table."
translation: my seat is vulnerable because i've failed to build a durable progressive coalition and there are zionists in my district who would do everything they can to end my career
Maybe I have something like schizophasia or whatever that is, but this sentence itself without translation to normal language already read wild.
In general I probably shouldn't have participated in holding that guy with my buddies while other buddies kick him until he's dead, but in specifics I think this is a positive thing that we've done it together.
Wow! I'm so impressed with her immense moral courage! It is so brave to do the right thing only when doing so becomes less damaging to your career than not doing it would be.
Yeah I like to think that the threats to remove congressmen who use the word genocide to describe the actions of an ally have started to lose power since the ICJ ruling and the more recent War Crimes accusations.
Oh good, the bullying worked
The focus groups on whether or not using the term genocide would lose or gain support finally reported in.
A reminder that even the good politicians fucking aren't.
It took a special kind of sociopath to think yourself the best person to decide on which laws should be followed by millions of people. Civilization is inherently doomed to collapse. You just need to know whether you're at the tail end of one to make a decision whether you want to prepare for the collapse to survive to live few years longer or just welcome the destruction and maybe your consciousness will reform sometime in the future.
AOC has had this position from the start. I'm getting so sick of edgy cynicism. If you really gave a shit then you would be paying more attention instead of seeking it.
Not calling it a Genocide is complicity
She has yet to actually vote no against any Israel funding bill. The bullying hasn't worked yet.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/aoc-iron-dome-criticism-failed-attempt-defending-vote
ONLY TOOK FIVE FUCKING MONTHS
Pls run for president in 2028
Agree.
social democracy is objectively the moderate wing of fascism
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Horrible crimes against humanity. Netanyahu is a monster and will face consequences in international court after this is over.
I wonder if Hamas leaders (if any are still alive) regret their attack on Israel at this time.
Do you think Biden will face accountability for aiding in a clear as day, blatent genocide?
US Law states that we'll do anything and everything in our power to make sure no US official ever sees justice. So, no I highly doubt it.
Unfortunately no US president will ever face a war crimes tribunal, despite the devastation and mass murder they've caused. In 2016 alone, Obama dropped an average of 3 bombs every hour on the middle east and north africa. Its a sad truth that none of these people will ever have to pay for their crimes.
the most present politician in congress
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The original comment was deleted but I can't imagine what would elicit such a response as this XD
Is that you, step-guru?
Tell Hamas to surrender and release the hostages and this whole thing would be over tomorrow.
How is the indigenous resistance surrendering going to end generations of apartheid and occupation?
Well they'll either be dead or forced out, so technically it won't be apartheid or occupation any more.
fuck off lmao
Do you genuinely believe that?
Hamas certainly deserves condemnation and are terrorists.
But IDF members are posting drone executions of unarmed children on social media themselves.
The IDF are just as complicit as Hamas in harm to civilians. The evidence is irrefutable.
Terrorist like Hamas attack and capture civilians, claim credit and post to social media. The IDF are doing the same thing.
If Hamas surrendered today I have no belief that the IDF will stop.
We've seen frequently that over decades the IDF have killed Palestinians protesting peacefully, killed press present at protests, killing medics.
Now they're taking the opportunity to attack civilians in hospital, civilians queuing for aid, killing civilians with drones. Displacing and starving a whole population.
These are war crimes.
The individual soldiers are now criminals it doesn't matter whether they follow orders or not. That precedent is already set at the Hague.
The question is, if they've been following orders, how far up the ranks in the IDF are the war criminals?
Assuming orders are being given and followed, what is the motivation for the orders?
It looks like the definition for genocide is being met. An organised force, starving a population and culture, displacing a population and culture, removing and displacing orphaned children from that country.
If you think Hamas are the cause of all of this I've got bad news for you. They're only an excuse, the IDF has been waiting to do these things for a long time.
The only question is how high the intent to do this has actually come from.