And our elected leaders stand by politely ignoring the obvious humanitarian issues and overt war crimes.
I think what annoys me most is the American news sources who trumpet Biden's speeches saying that he's told Netanyahu to stop the killing, yet fail to report America stonewalling a UN vote for a cease fire ... and forcing the UN to water down what they do ask for.
I hate hypocrisy and America is full of it (like many nations are).
sigh
Exactly, like what the fuck?
Well, the US does have an ardent pro-Israel Zionazi as the president this time around.
Genocide is fine so long as it destabilizes the middle east, gets oil corporations better deals thanks to that, and profits military corporations.
it's totally fair to criticize Biden as long as we can agree that the alternative is much worse.
the alternative: genocide plus fascism.
Yeah isn't it nice how simple the world is? Black or white. No nuance. Nuance sure would be shitty.
The world isn’t nice, because it’s so simple. Money.
And? I can not do shocked pickachu when they have done it for 234 years. At least this time we're not the ones doing the war crimes.
It has me truly dissuaded of the notion that the so called developed world has any sort of moral authority. We have to learn from this.
I hope Germany and the UK are the first to come forward and try to stop this atrocity but I have no such expectations.
The UK is still reminiscing about the glory days of empire when it was exporting food from their colonies while millions of Indians and Irish starved to death or fighting a war to get Chinese people addicted to opium.
A war started by selling opium to China after China had banned opium due to an epidemic caused by years of being sold opium by the British.
The UK were offering to send surveillance planes to help Israel with targetting in Gaza.
As for Germany the very day the UN announced Israel had already killed over 4000 children in Gaza, herr Sholz reafirmed his unwavering support of Israel.
Those two are some of the worst, only beaten in their love for these Fascists by the US.
The ones to be proud of in Europe when it comes to their reaction to this massacre are the Republic of Ireland and Spain.
I wonder what Hitler would have to say about Israel, if he could see it now? He'd probably tell them they're doing it wrong, as if there's a right way to genocide.
Hitler would be happy about a Jewish Ethnostate to segregate them to, in general, but yeah there's no telling how he would react to their actions unless he could somehow grift something from the whole situation.
Israel's done for now! They will get stern words and hard finger wagging from the UN!
But Anthony Blinken said the United States has done more than any country to stop the killing of civilians in Gaza by providing unlimited quantities of bombs to kill civilians in Gaza.
Merry Christmas wishes from Genocide Joe and his Nazi friends.
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