I mean, I feel like someone who was willing to set themselves on fire would also be willing to illegally leak classified documents if such existed.
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Agree. But I'm going to assume both are happening:
- He didn't have the whole story
- Neither do we.
I bet there are western special ops forces or contractors operating in Gaza, ostensibly hunting Iranian assets. I doubt they would risk the global pr explosion of using any non Israelis to conduct the policing and harassing tasks we are seeing. Deaths from which are genocidal in Nature)
I'm not justifying any of it, and I'm not absolving the US of contributing to a genocide in Gaza. I just bet they are using the chaos to go hunting.
So, if any of my assumptions are right, it could have been misreported to him. Or it wasn't that and he deemed our known-public support of Israel's ongoing genocidal actions as sufficient to motivate his protest.
The US doesn't care about Gaza, ( I mean this both ways: they wouldn't take the time to conduct this genocide themselves, but also don't care about the civilian welfare damn near enough). But they absolutely do care about what Iran is up to and would not hesitate to hunt Iranian agents or connections in an "open" area.
then again, we are reading this so I guess it worked
Remember we've been living the ruling classes new normal for awhile. The future is going to get worse before it gets better.
The Intercept:
- 2024-01-11: Biden Admin Deployed Air Force Team to Israel to Assist With Targets, Document Suggests
Guidance for officers deployed to Israel appears to show the U.S. military providing intelligence for airstrikes in Gaza. - 2024-02-09: “Logistics” Outpost in Jordan Where 3 U.S. Troops Died Is Secretly a Drone Base
The Pentagon is covering up the real purpose of Tower 22: targeting the very Iran-backed militant groups that attacked last month.
Looks like he also received a mandatory deployment order to "israel" to directly participate in the genocide before he decided to go through with this.
That’s not a deployment order, and I feel this has been taken out of context by people unfamiliar with the military. I can’t say with certainty what this is, but it could be guidance like “don’t wear your uniform in public if you’re in Israel”. It wouldn’t have no restrictions on releasing it if it were anything important.
To say this is evidence of mandatory deployment orders is ridiculous.
Yeah it's unclassified. Plus it's not even a secret that us troops are in Israel, biden sent like 2000 in November or December. It would be interesting news if they were fighting in Gaza, but I'm definitely going to need evidence before I even entertain that idea.
This document as evidence is particularly weak because the air force doesn't fight on the ground.
He did say he wasn’t going to be a part of the genocide, so that checks out
Supersedes All Previous Israel Reporting Instructions
Ok I'm a bit of a pedant and this type of language frustrates me. Give me an Order number, or document designation of any kind. This has no timeframe attached to it either. It should supersede a set of orders and not be vague like this.
Such a shame he killed the only troop willing to die for Palestinians, instead of killing- well
Anyone have a more trustworthy news source than the NY Post?