OTHER NATIONS HAVE CONDEMNED NETANYAHU'SIMPUNITY, GAZA MASSACRES, BOMBING GAZA TO RUBBLE, GAZA GENOCIDE, BLOCKING HUMANITARIAN AID - A WAR CRIME, BOMBING HOSPITALS, MASS GRAVES OF TORTURED & EXECUTED VICTIMS & EVEN US MILITARY PARTICIPATION....
THANK YOU FOR THOSE WHO ARE STANDING UP!
MOSSAD HAS STALKED & THREATENED MEMBERS OF ICC TO SILENCE ACTION. THE US HAS VETOED CONDEMNATION IN THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL.
INFORMATION HAS BEEN GATHERED BY RESPECTED ORGANIZATIONS - NOT BY US CORPORATE MEDIA THAT FAILS TO REPORT ISRAEL'S ATROCITIES
THE US IS STANDING ALONE IN ITS COMPLICITY OF GENOCIDE!
GENEROUS DONATIONS FROM THE ANTI-DEMOCRACY ORGANIZATION AIPAC HAS PURCHASED THEIR HUMANITY!
Top Congressional Democrats Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries joined with House GOP Speaker Mike Johnson and Mitch McConnell to invite Benjamin Netanyahu to give a speech to Congress. And it’s unclear where some Democratic party leaders stand on Netanyahu’s speech, even as the Israeli military bombs civilian tent camps and kills tens of thousands of Palestinians.
It’s clear where Bernie stands. Bernie said Netanyahu’s speech is a terrible idea and that he would boycott the speech.
Netanyahu has led the onslaught on the Palestinian people, cut off aid, and broken international humanitarian law. No Democrat should show up to his speech and Schumer should make every effort to stop this speech.
Bernie is as clear as anyone when it comes to Netanyahu.
Netanyahu’s atrocities in Gaza have become a cynical political tool for Republicans like Mike Johnson. The GOP cares more about logging political points than taking any sort of moral position on what the Israeli military is doing in Gaza. The leader of war crimes in Gaza, destruction, and mass starvation has no place in front of Congress.
There’s no doubt Netanyahu will use a Congressional speech to spread lies and lash out at Democrats, just like he did the last time he addressed Congress. It’s exactly what Republicans want and Democrats should fight it at every turn.
It shouldn’t just be Bernie saying he’ll boycott a Netanyahu speech to Congress, it’s all Democrats — especially the Democrat leading in the Senate, Chuck Schumer.
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THE MIDDLE EAST KNOWS HOW THE US HAS BETRAYED THEIR PEOPLE.
THIS GREIVOUS MISTAKE WILL SPREAD ANTI-US SENTIMENT...ARE YOU
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THEY WILL REMEMBER!
TERRORISM is a POOR MAN'S WAR and will be perpetuated by this
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Invited by Congress, Outraged Critics Say Netanyahu 'Should Be Arrested on the Spot'
"Perhaps," said one progressive critic, the Israeli prime minister "can be arrested for his war crimes on the Senate floor."
"This is shameful, Sen. Schumer."
That was the reaction of progressive activist Cynthia Nixon on Friday after the Democratic Majority Leader in the U.S. Senate co-signed a formal letter—alongside Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.), Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), and House Minority Leader Jakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)—inviting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress.
With global outrage over Israel's ongoing assault on Gaza at new heights and the International Criminal Court considering an arrest warrant application for the Israeli prime minister over the military campaign that many experts and humanitarians have deemed "genocidal," Nixon suggested that "[p]erhaps Netanyahu can be arrested for his war crimes on the Senate floor."
Nixon was far from alone in reacting with disgust to the decision by Schumer, who faced considerable pressure not to go through with the invitation that has been under consideration for many weeks.
Schumer, Johnson, Jeffries, and McConnell, said the Jewish-led human rights group IfNotNow, "will forever be remembered as the leaders who invited the war criminal Netanyahu to give a speech to Congress in the middle of Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza, days after he crossed President Biden's 'red line' on an invasion of Rafah."
Asked about the possibility of Netanyahu addressing Congress under the current circumstances, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said last month he would boycott the event if the invite was issued. "It's a terrible idea. No I won’t go," Sanders said. "You have a Prime Minister who has created the worst humanitarian disaster in modern history."
"Five percent of the population is now dead or wounded," Sanders said, "and 60 percent of them are women and children. Some 200,000 housing units have been completely destroyed. Every university in Gaza has been bombed. There is now imminent starvation taking place. So why you would invite somebody who has done such horrific things to the Palestinian people is something that I think is a very bad idea."
In March, Schumer vocally criticized the Netanyahu government over its treatment of Gaza in the wake of the October 7 attacks by Hamas militants.
Last month, the Forward's Jacob Kornbluh explained how the potential invite of Netanyahu "divided Democrats even when it was just a rumor." He wrote:
On the left flank of the party, critics of Israel don’t want Congress to give a platform to the prime minister, who is widely reviled for embracing right-wing extremists within his government and prosecuting a war in Gaza that has resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands.
But mainstream pro-Israel Democrats don’t necessarily want to welcome him either. Many of them are also frustrated by Netanyahu, but prefer to avoid the inevitable calls to boycott the democratically elected leader of a country they otherwise support.
"I understand why Mike Johnson, Mitch McConnell and Benjman Netanyahu badly want this to happen," commentedMSNBC's Chris Hayes on Friday after the invitation was made official. "I cannot for the life of me understand why Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer think it's a good idea."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint meeting of the United States Congress in the House chamber at the U.S. Capitol March 3, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
"Now it's up to the American people to protect our democracy by holding Trump accountable at the ballot box and ensuring that a convicted fraudster never steps foot in the Oval Office again," said one democracy defender.
Stacy Gilbert, a 20-year State Dept. veteran, described reading the final NSM-20 report in shock, given the way it contradicted expert consensus. She immediately decided to resign.
By Edward Carver • May 30, 2024
Stacy Gilbert, a U.S. State Department official who resigned this week over Gaza, said Thursday that part of a key report on humanitarian assistance issued earlier this month was "patently false" and that it contradicted the consensus of the department's own experts, according toThe Guardian.
Humanitarian groups had widely condemned the department's NSM-20 report, released May 10, which, among other contentious findings, determined that Israel wasn't restricting the transport or delivery of U.S. humanitarian assistance—an assessment that allowed the Biden administration to continue providing arms to Israel. Countries that have blocked U.S. aid are ineligible for arms and security assistance under U.S. law.
Gilbert's comments on Thursday revealed that department officials, and not just outside humanitarian groups, disagreed with the official assessment, which she said was taken out of expert hands within the department during the final weeks and "edited at a higher level." She told The Guardian that it was clear that Israel was limiting the amount of food and medical supplies coming into Gaza.
"There is consensus among the humanitarian community on that," Gilbert said. "It is absolutely the opinion of the humanitarian subject matter experts in the state department, and not just in my bureau—people who look at this from the intelligence community and from other bureaus."
"I would be very hard pressed to think of anyone who has said [Israeli obstruction of aid] is not an issue," she added. "That’s why I object to that report saying that Israel is not blocking humanitarian assistance. That is patently false."
The Washington Post, which broke the story of Gilbert's resignation on Tuesday, reported that her view that "Israel was impeding the aid from reaching civilians in Gaza" was "echoed by the vast majority of aid and humanitarian organizations."
It was not clear from the reporting in The Guardian or the Post whether Gilbert also disagreed with the other major assessment in the NSM-20 report—that U.S.-supplied weapons couldn't be definitively linked to violations of international law in Gaza. Oxfam called the report a "slap in the face," citing a memorandum it had jointly written with Human Rights Watch on international law violations and Israeli restrictions on aid. Other humanitarian and watchdog groups had similar responses to the report.
Gilbert, a 20-year department veteran who worked in the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, described reading the final NSM-20 report in shock when it was released. She sent an email explaining her intention to resign just two hours later. This week, she sent another email to department staff explaining her views about the errors in the report, according to the Post.
Gilbert is one of two Biden administration officials to resign this week, bringing the overall total to at least nine. Alexander Smith, a contractor and senior adviser at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), resigned Monday after a presentation that he prepared on maternal and child health in Gaza was canceled. He sent a letter to USAID Administrator Samantha Power critiquing inconsistencies in the agency's approach to different humanitarian crises, The Guardian reported. Smith had been with USAID for four years.
"I cannot do my job in an environment in which specific people cannot be acknowledged as fully human, or where gender and human rights principles apply to some, but not to others, depending on their race," Smith wrote.
"Biden provided the shells, Republicans autograph them," said one progressive leader. "The U.S. political class is united in its complicity with this genocide."
"We will never forget the images emerging from Rafah tonight. Human beings, including babies, were burned alive and torn apart. This genocide must end, it must end now," said one group.
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In a flagrant violation of international norms and humanitarian laws, Israel continues to act with total impunity in Gaza, enjoying Western complicity, and emboldened by U.S. unconditional military and diplomatic support.
