The IDF has destroyed 45,000 buildings in Khan Younis alone. 55% of the city is obliterated. Human rights groups are calling the city unlivable. You would have to be the dumbest person alive to believe Israel was only targeting terrorists. — Cenk Uygur
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Hunger in Gaza is overshadowing the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, a typically joyous festival during which families celebrate the end of Ramadan. In Istanbul, thousands of worshipers gathered at the Aya Sofya Mosque for prayers, some carrying Palestinian flags and chanting slogans in support of people in Gaza, where the United Nations and partners warn that more than a million people are under threat of imminent flood and famine with little aid allowed in.
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Yes, it’s genocide, says Warren.
What a shame that Sen. Elizabeth Warren failed to run in the Democratic primaries this time around as a critic of US policy on Gaza. It might have given those 500,000 “uncommitted” voters something to vote for.
Last week, Warren went where no other US senator, including Bernie Sanders, has dared to tread when she called out Israel’s criminal assault on Gaza by its name, “genocide.”
“If you want to do it as an application of the law, I believe that they’ll find that it is genocide, and they have ample evidence to do so,” Warren (D-Mass.) said Friday while taking audience questions during an event at the Islamic Center of Boston in Wayland, Massachusetts.
After initially voicing support for Israel following the events of Oct. 7th, Warren, like many Democrats, has grown increasingly vocal in her criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration.
Warren says she’s not hung up on the word genocide, maintaining that the focus on the war in Gaza should go beyond a “labels argument.”
“For me, it is far more important to say what Israel is doing is wrong. And it is wrong. It is wrong to starve children within a civilian population in order to try to bend to your will. It is wrong to drop 2000-pound bombs, in densely populated civilian areas.”
In January, she floated the idea of imposing restrictions on military aid to Israel, saying on X that the U.S. “cannot write a blank check for a right-wing government that’s demonstrated an appalling disregard for Palestinian lives.”
Let’s see if she stays firm on that when the war budget comes to a vote.
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It’s a ‘mistake’…
In contrast to Warren, Pres. Biden called Netanyahu’s handling of the war in Gaza a mistake. “What he’s doing is a mistake. I don’t agree with his approach,” Biden told Spanish-language broadcaster Univision.
A mistake? Does he mean like — Oops, we killed 33,000 civilians, mostly women and children, with starvation, disease, and those US-supplied bombs and missiles?
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And finally…A revolt brewing at State
State Department staff sent at least eight internal dissent memos to express disagreement with US policy on Israel and Gaza during the first two months of the war, according to the Independent.
That’s not counting last week’s protest resignation of State Department official Annelle Sheline.
A further memo was sent last month from the US embassy in Jordan, warning of increasing instability across the region due to Israel’s ongoing war, according to a person familiar with the matter, bringing the total number to at least nine.
Good. The split deepens at the top, and opposition elsewhere and below widens.