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“We were at a village that Israeli settlers had destroyed, they had destroyed the school, they had destroyed that village, and we were just looking at it,” said Khanna, a progressive lawmaker from California in the U.S. House of ​Representatives.

“And these hoodlums come in with machine guns – M4, an American-made machine gun – and they detain us. They block off the road. And then they call the IDF and ​the IDF is on their side, not on the side of the Americans,” Khanna said, referring to the Israeli military.

An aide to ⁠Khanna who was in the group, Cameron Kasky, said they were held for more than an hour and made appeals to the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem for help. A group ​of officers who appeared to be police eventually intervened, leading to their release, Kasky said.

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[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 102 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This is what I expect our leaders to do. People with far less privilege have been putting their lives on the line while congressional chuckle fucks write stern letters.

[–] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't agree with all his positions, and he does take a lot of money from big tech, but his heart is absolutely in the right place. He is a real public servant.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

he does take a lot of money from big tech

Not any more, he's been supporting the billionaire tax here so all the big tech money is turning against him.

[–] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Oh nice. I had looked on opensecrets and it showed a fair bit, but that must have been from a while back then. https://www.opensecrets.org/profiles/ro-khanna/us_congress/summary

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is what I expect our leaders to do.

Under Biden, our leaders had the capacity to preempt the genocide, remove the Netanyahu government from power, and establish a full sovereign Palestinian state.

This is very dangerous. And it's definitely bringing more attention to a horror show that's fallen out of the public eye. But it's a far cry from what the party needs to be doing

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago

preempt the genocide

When do you think this genocide actually started?

[–] dreamkeeper@literature.cafe 0 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

How would we "remove" Netanyahu from power? And why the hell should we? It isn't our job to fuck over another country's democracy just because we don't like the result.

I agree with stopping the war in Gaza but miss me with the regime change stuff.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

How would we “remove” Netanyahu from power?

We can start with economic sanctions and go from there.

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That just sounds like more of the same. I want us to stop spending money on war in the middle east entirely. No more world police bullshit.

If we stopped giving Israel money they would either figure out how to make peace with their neighbors or they'd be attacked by them. Either way the Palestine issue would be solved.

I don't the US will stop meddling any time soon, but it'd be nice

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -2 points 1 day ago

With the tight link between the US and Israel, I think we'd need a regime change at home before we saw any progress abroad.