In late December, 77 groups — representing tens of thousands of lawyers, civil society leaders, and activists from six continents — filed an amicus brief in a lawsuit that Palestinian human rights organizations, residents of Gaza, and U.S. citizens with family members impacted by Israel’s ongoing assault brought against the Biden administration.
According to Law for Palestine, a human rights and legal advocacy organization, there have been at least 500 instances of Israeli lawmakers, officials, and officers inciting genocide.
Sourani said that the statements by Israeli officials, along with the actual blockade, the indiscriminate attacks on civilians and civilian buildings, the basic lack of safe space, and the mass displacement of millions of Palestinians makes it clear: “All of this is tantamount to genocide.”
The plaintiffs responded to the administration’s motion to dismiss on December 22, arguing that there is precedent for U.S. courts to adjudicate questions surrounding genocide and that their legal challenge is about more than the actions of a foreign state. Rather, the plaintiffs argued, their injuries are “fairly traceable” to the actions of the U.S. government. “The suggestion that the U.S. does not or cannot influence Israel borders on the absurd, not least because the Israeli government acknowledges its actions could not happen without U.S. license and support, and Defendants have boasted about their coordination with and influence over Israel,” the plaintiffs wrote.
Conservatives should really be running with this. It’s such an easy win for them. They get a genocide to satisfy their bloodlust AND they get to blame it on their enemy.
They could use it for their impeachment attempt and they could even demand he be arrested and tried in the Hague. Thankfully, conservatives are stupid as fuck and can’t see the easy points.
They’re too busy thinking that surely THIS slaughter jump starts the second coming.
Yup, the religious right only supports Isreal because they seriously believe once all jews are in Israel and they rebuild a temple, all jews and none believers will die in a holy fire. While the “real” Christians will float off to heaven. I wish I was joking but it’s the truth. These are the people in control of 50% of our government.
What can be done about it? Clearly voting doesn’t work, it got us here in the first place.
They also hate whites that aren’t the “correct” type of white. Ukrainians are “relatively civilized and relatively european”, for instance.
They don’t like Ukranians because Russia doesn’t like Ukraine. It’s not a racial thing.
Besides, they’d be going much harder than Biden is. They agree with supporting Israel, and if Trump gets back in office and this thing is still ongoing, I wouldn’t be surprised if he tried to send troops over to help Israel.
They’re probably worried about the legal precedent of a sitting president actually getting in trouble for genocide, since they’re planning one next year and all.
Conservatives should really be running with this.
They’ve spent the last 23 years running on the “Arabs are scary and we need to kill them” platform. Why would they support a measure that’s anti-genocide?
They could use it for their impeachment attempt
If they’re going to run bullshit impeachment efforts that die in the Senate, why waste effort and pick a fight with AIPAC when they can just hold up a picture of Hunter Biden’s dick pick and call any Democrat who votes against impeachment a pedophile?
You can’t try a POTUS in the Hague. Well, not without a very serious fight.
Fuck Biden, I do hope he drops out and we can get a better candidate in the primary (if we even have one). But when it comes to the presidential vote, and the only choices are Biden and Trump, I’ll have no choice but to vote for Biden. Because Trump is no longer even hiding his fascism, he’s riding on it now
I really don’t understand why so many people like to pretend a fight for the nomination wouldn’t simply result in losing the Election. All it does is increase the number of folks refusing to Vote claiming that somehow there shall be a lesson learned after we all saw the exact same idiot claims in 2016 which all simply elected the idiot and accomplished nothing else.
That the one single man - Joe Biden - who by changing his own actions could almost certainly guarantee that Trump was kept out, refuses to stop materially supporting Genocide and instead he and those of his tribe demand that millions of Americans (most of whom voted for him and who he is supposed to represent) ignore their Principles and vote for him again, says it all.
Joe Biden’s actions are neither compatible with the stated goal of keeping Trump out nor are they compatible with being an elected representative of the will of the voters.
It’s not only Trump who is against Democracy, it’s just that Biden and his minions use different, less in-your-face methods to disenfranchise the power of the vote.
Makes sense.
Well it’s been a little over 3 months and we have at a minimum 23k deaths and 60k casualties of Palestinians.
Not to mention Israeli officials literally calling for genocide in Israeli press by saying all Palestinians should be removed from Gaza.
Maybe take off your blinders and reassess. It’s clearly genocide.
Can Democrat voters get some pressure going to replace Biden with someone who isn’t a genocidal Zionazi? If you really want to vote Democrat instead of third party at least make it clear that they have to replace Genocide Joe.
There are some strong primary contenders but the DNC is corrupt as shit and refuses to hold a primary election. They’re even going so far as to call the state DNC offices and request that primaries be canceled or candidates removed from the primary ballots. There’s a lawsuit in SC over this and an emergency hearing is taking place on it today as a matter of fact.
All this from those who claim “democracy is at risk” in ‘24 elections.
Personally, I think both parties are far too corrupted by bribe money, and we should just back a new 3rd party. It’s hard to organize that when all of corporate media seeks to snuff you out though.
“The Democrats are corrupt as shit” - that’s some projection there, buddy. Another shit-talking republican/russian bot…
wrong, gross.
I invite you to consider Hillary stealing the nom from Bernie, Biden’s only campaign promise he followed through on being “nothing will fundamentally change” for his rich donors, or Pelosi consistently laughing off so much as a conversation about rampant congressional insider trading on the stock market.
Just because Republicans are open and proud about their corruption, doesn’t mean the 2nd party in a 2 party system isn’t also incredibly corrupt. Americans deserve better, and deserve actual representation in this alleged “democracy”
The unfortunate reality is that any Biden replacement would be doomed to lose to Trump. The degree to which many Americans don’t pay attention to politics is shocking, and because of that they’re more likely to vote for a candidate based on simple things like name recognition rather than actual policy
Trump went from a 1% vote to a victory in a short timespan without even having been supported in the beginning.
Democrats vote Democrat. They don’t just vote for Biden. Even Bernie could have won if the DNC didn’t actively sabotage his campaign.
