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Israel Just Killed Another American in the West Bank. Will the U.S. Ever Respond?
(theintercept.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2024
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So the Intercept is triggering you with this death for a purpose of government funding, while ignoring the other? IDK which is worse and it is what I said originally. Shame these young people died, but in one case we know what happened, but in this case we don't.
so you dont see the difference between us killing one of our own and someone else doing it?
Both are dead.
We didn't kill anyone. We don't know the facts, that's why the US State Department is investigating.
It's almost been a year of Israel indiscriminately killing in the area and the state department still refuses to do an investigation. Still waiting for Israel to investigate themselves.
But yeah sure. We're totally gonna do something other than fund and supply weapons
This has nothing to do with the finding of fact as to how this woman died
In fact,it's not true. First, let's ignore the fact that this woman apparently from small arms fire which we don't supply to the Israelis. Congress wrote a bill to supply other weapons to Isreal. to Isreal. It was unable to put restrictions on sale. That left it in Biden's lap. Biden asked State to evaluate how the Israelis were using weapons as it pertains to standing US law. The result was that State could not find a legal reason not to supply.
You can have your own feelings on the matter, but not your own facts
Yeah, imagine that. Someone from the Biden administration pretending not to see the obvious.
We are a nation of laws. You may not like them. You may ridicule them. But you mind them anyway. It's no different for the President unless you're Trump
You celebrate bad faith in government when it's in favor of genocide.
You're no different than Trumpers who rejoiced that the system "works" when SCOTUS overturned Roe.
Minding laws has nothing to do with faith in anything.
Pretending to see no genocide when it's fucking obvious so you don't have to abide by the Leahy Law is absolutely bad faith, even though you clearly approve of the results.
You keep reading things into my remarks and I'll keep on correcting you.
Well, you'll pretend you weren't whatabouting.
You can pretend you're not confused
You can stop gaslighting.
Ah, it's the old I'm rubber, you're glue defense. Brilliant
Guess I was wrong. You can't stop gaslighting.
Just call them as I see them
Sure. Like state when they pretended that there's no genocide in Gaza.
They were actual lawyers. I am not. Are you?
So were the Supreme Court justices that overturned Roe. You're telling me that lawyers are trustworthy.
Is this the guy who cries whataboutism?
I was providing an example of lawyers being dishonest. To anyone else, it would be as obvious as saying the sky is blue, but since they looked the other way in order to enable genocide, you think they're incapable of lying.
Yeah yeah. It's fun to dislike lawyers. They even dislike themselves
But they're paragons of honesty and justice the instant they enable genocide.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-state-department-official-resigns-says-us-report-gaza-inaccurate-2024-05-30/
Again it's easy to continue to not do anything if you ignore all of what's going on.
Every thread is you doing this
So, there's a report from state that says Isreal is using weapons in line with US law and someone at state doesn't agree? Call it the reason for resignation? Fact is it is still a report issued to the President
we're a nation of laws, except when we close our eyes and put heads on the sand
When a report is issued it becomes an item that can be subject to supena. Therefore, the House could get it and use it in investigation of Biden had he not followed it
Just ignore it if it makes Netanyahu look bad!
Bibi is an asshole
Is that why you're whatabouting for him?
Now you're being ridiculous
My first reaction to the article wasn't "Whatabout Hamas, huh?!"
For those that can read it was about the I Intercept choice in publishing stories
If you say so.
We know exactly what happened, the US is just using delay tactics. Why are you upset that people are upset about the extrajudicial killing of an American Citizen by a foreign State. The IDF has killed so many American Citizens already, on top of you know, the genocide.
Ever hear of Ashli Babbitt? You don't know the circumstance , only the method.
Dude, what are you talking about. How are you comparing this situation to someone who actively took part in Jan 6th's insurrection.
We have multiple eyewitness accounts about exactly what happened
https://youtu.be/VkcVe_sSvo8
https://youtu.be/UaLdQjUEzVU
In the case of Ashli Babbitt there were multiple eye witnesses as well who said there was no reason that she was shot. In fact she and those eye witnesses were warned to go no further or they would be shot.
Ashli Babbitt and all the others on Jan 6th were trespassing, which the police officer responded to with deadly force. I still find that unjustified but that's what happened.
In this case, these were protesters, in a Palestinian town, protesting the ethnic cleansing of the town. IDF escalated by shooting people in the head.
These are not the same
Point is you still don't know the circumstance of her death. You believe in those accompanying her, but you will not wait to hear from anyone else before expressing outrage.
Just the kind of reader the Intercept wants.
Not only do we know the circumstances, this kind of behavior of Israeli soldiers killing nonviolent protestors is frequent.