While the US Admin shamefully justifies the #genocide in Gaza, it’s disturbing when that untenable justification comes (without evidence) from a key figure in U.S. humanitarian policy.
In expressing sorrow for "Palestinian civilian casualties in another [IOF] strike on a school & shelter [sic]" 👇Samantha Power interestingly forgets that the even possible presence of combatants in the midst of civilians does NOT justify mass killings and in fact blows up proportionality and distinction principles - the most basic IHL tenets (how many Hamas fighters were in #AlTabeen school? were they in active combat? what precautions were taken to protect civilians in the bombardment of a school used as shelter hosting thousands of displaced people at dawn during prayer time?).
Power also overlooks reports that some of the names provided by Israel as Hamas combatants had either already been extrajudicially executed days before, or were not affiliated to Hamas by the slightest.
We have seen multiple cases of “human shielding” fabrications by the Israeli military in this genocide - and in previous wars (see my report A/HRC/55/73, para 68-52 👇). One would expect that someone regarded as a genocide expert wouldn't validate the dehumanizing macro-carachterization of civilians as human shields- and the overall #HumanitarianCamouflage 👇- used to justify the killing of 40,000 Palestinians so far. And counting.
US funding of Israeli #Genocide is ballooning as the Israeli army uses ever more lethal bombs. The ones used yesterday in the #AlTabinSchool massacre sliced bodies to the point of making them unrecognizable. They are now identified by weight: 70kg bag = 1 adult. Revolting.
#Liberals#Democrats think they can convince the whole world that actively funding, arming and defending a genocide is the lesser of two evils. They distort the definition of words. Up is down, right is left, male is female, genocide is self defense... #Gaza#Palestine#Israel
Mahmoud Abbas:
“Netanyahu will stay in power, may Allah prolong his life, whether you like it or not.”
Yahya Sinwar:
“We will make Netanyahu curse the day his mother gave birth to him.”
Asking if Kamala Harris wants a ceasefire implies the US is an innocent bystander and not the driver behind the genocide. A ceasefire can happen if the US stops arming Israel. Period. The question is whether she would change US policy. But she already told you. She won't.
Belgium, UK, USA connived and assassinated Lumumba, hacked him into pieces, dissolved his body into acid and took his teeth to Brussels, simply because he was struggling for Congo independence. These are the same people that want to lecture us about human rights and democracy.
All it took was one (D) administration with fascist police and border/immigration policies and a U.S. backed genocide for liberals to go full on "America First".
A journalist asked me how I "feel" about Gaza today. How am I supposed to feel in the face of a Western-sponsored army relentlessly butchering people trapped in what resembles a circle of Dante's Hell?
I feel sick.