Yawn....... Israel attacked by Hamas

Discussion in 'Politics' started by themickey, Oct 7, 2023.

  1. themickey

    themickey

    Ooohhhh yes of course, and Hamas are using human shields, day after day the sames excuses and lies to justify their cowardly brutality.
    The holocaust is just a memory for others to abide by, brutality by jews has God's blessing.
     
    #2691     May 29, 2024
  2. themickey

    themickey

    US-made munitions used in deadly strike on Rafah tent camp, CNN analysis shows
    By Allegra Goodwin, Avery Schmitz and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Tue May 28, 2024

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    Fire rages following an Israeli strike in an area designated for displaced Palestinians in Rafah on May 26, 2024. Reuters TV/Reuters CNN —

    Munitions made in the United States were used in the deadly Israeli strike on a displacement camp in Rafah on Sunday, a CNN analysis of video from the scene and a review by explosive weapons experts has found.

    At least 45 people were killed and more than 200 others injured after a fire broke out following the Israeli military’s strike on the outskirts of Gaza’s southernmost city, most of them women and children, according to the Gaza Health Ministry and Palestinian medics.

    Footage obtained by CNN showed swathes of the camp in Rafah in flames, with scores of men, women and children frantically trying to find cover from the nighttime assault. Burned bodies, including those of children, could be seen being pulled by rescuers from the wreckage.

    Israel’s escalating assault in Rafah – where some 1.3 million Palestinians were taking shelter before Israel began its operation there – has drawn swift international condemnation, with United Nations agencies, aid groups and multiple governments calling on Israel to immediately halt its offensive.

    Israeli tanks were seen advancing further into Rafah on Tuesday for the first time in Israel’s seven-month war against Hamas, signaling a new phase Israel pressing on with its controversial and destructive offensive.

    However, US President Joe Biden is not altering his policy towards Israel, suggesting the deadly Rafah strike had not yet crossed a red line that would force changes in American support, despite him saying in a CNN interview earlier this month he wouldn’t allow certain US weapons to be used in a major offensive in Rafah.

    CNN geolocated videos showing tents in flames in the aftermath of the strike on the camp for internally displaced people known as “Kuwait Peace Camp 1.”

    In video shared on social media, which CNN geolocated to the same scene by matching details including the camp’s entrance sign and the tiles on the ground, the tail of a US-made GBU-39 small diameter bomb (SDB) is visible, according to four explosive weapons experts who reviewed the video for CNN.

    The GBU-39, which is manufactured by Boeing, is a high-precision munition “designed to attack strategically important point targets,” and result in low collateral damage, explosive weapons expert Chris Cobb-Smith told CNN Tuesday. However, “using any munition, even of this size, will always incur risks in a densely populated area,” said Cobb-Smith, who is also a former British Army artillery officer.

    Trevor Ball, a former US Army senior explosive ordnance disposal team member who also identified the fragment as being from a GBU-39, explained to CNN how he drew his conclusion.

    “The warhead portion [of the munition] is distinct, and the guidance and wing section is extremely unique compared to other munitions. Guidance and wing sections of munitions are often the remnants left over even after a munition detonates. I saw the tail actuation section and instantly knew it was one of the SDB/GBU-39 variants.”

    Ball also concluded that while there is a variant of the GBU-39 known as the Focused Lethality Munition (FLM) which has a larger explosive payload but is designed to cause even less collateral damage, this was not the variant used in this case.

    “The FLM has a carbon fiber composite warhead body and is filled with tungsten ground into a powder. Photos of FLM testing have shown objects in the test coated in tungsten dust, which is not present [in video from the scene],” he told CNN.

    Serial numbers on the remnants of the munitions also matched those for a manufacturer of GBU-39 parts based in California – pointing to more evidence the bombs were made in the US.

    Two additional explosive weapons experts – Richard Weir, senior crisis and conflict researcher at Human Rights Watch, and Chris Lincoln-Jones, a former British Army artillery officer and weapons and targeting expert – identified the fragment as being part of a US-manufactured GBU-39 when reviewing the video for CNN, though they were unable to comment on the variant used.

    Asked for comment on the munitions used in the Rafah strike at Tuesday’s briefing, Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh told reporters: “I do not know what type of munition was used in that airstrike. I’d have to refer you to the Israelis to speak to that.”

    CNN has also reached out to the US National Security Council.

    Main weapons supplier
    The US has long been the biggest supplier of arms to Israel, according to data from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), and that support has continued despite the growing political pressure on the Biden administration over the Gaza offensive.

    Last month, Biden signed a foreign aid bill that included $26 billion for the Israel-Hamas conflict — including $15 billion in Israeli military aid, $9 billion in humanitarian aid for Gaza and $2.4 billion for regional US military operations.

    CNN’s identification of the munition is consistent with a claim made by IDF spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari in a briefing about the tragedy on Tuesday.

    Hagari told reporters the strike – which he said targeted senior Hamas commanders – used two munitions with small warheads containing 17 kilos of explosives, adding these bombs were “the smallest munitions that our jets could use.” The traditional GBU-39 warhead has an explosive payload of 17 kilos.

    Hagari said the deadly fire which occurred following the strike was not caused solely by weapons used by the Israeli military.

    “Our munitions alone could not have ignited a fire of this size,” Hagari said, adding the IDF was investigating “what may have caused such a large fire to ignite.”

    He added that Israel is looking into whether the strike was “unintentionally set off possible stored weapons in a nearby compound.”

    Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the deadly airstrike in Rafah was a “tragic error,” but said Israel has vowed to press on with its operation despite international outrage and a US warning not to proceed.

    CNN’s Kevin Liptak and Samantha Waldenberg contributed to this report.
     
    #2692     May 29, 2024
  3. themickey

    themickey

    After massacre in Gaza’s Rafah, advocates ask: Where is Biden’s red line?
    Biden is allowing Israel to ‘operate with impunity’ despite his warnings against an assault on Rafah, activists say.

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    Palestinians inspect a tent camp damaged in an Israeli attack in Rafah on May 28 [Hatem Khaled/Reuters]
    By Ali Harb 28 May 2024

    Washington, DC –
    In early May, seven months into Israel’s devastating war on Gaza, United States President Joe Biden drew a rare red line for the top US ally.

    The US president told CNN that Washington would not provide bombs and artillery shells for the Israeli army to invade Rafah in southern Gaza.

    But the images of charred bodies that emerged from an Israeli attack in Rafah on Sunday have raised questions about the credibility of Biden’s “red line”. An estimated 45 people were killed in the attack, which struck a cluster of tents sheltering displaced Palestinians.

    “It is deeply disappointing to see President Biden continue to allow Israel to operate with impunity,” said Ahmad Abuznaid, director of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR).

    “To issue a red line that you knew you weren’t going to follow through on not only means he will continue to be Genocide Joe, but it also just shows he’s weak politically.”

    In recent weeks, Washington justified its failure to hold Israel to account by arguing that the offensive in Rafah was a “limited” operation, not the all-out assault that Biden had cautioned against.

    US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller reiterated that position on Tuesday, despite Sunday’s bloodshed and Israeli tanks pushing deeper into Rafah.

    “We do not want to see major military operations take place there, the way that we saw them take place in Khan Younis and in Gaza City. At this point, we have not seen a military operation on the scale of those previous operations,” Miller said.

    He added that the US could not “verify” that Israeli military vehicles are in central Rafah, which has been confirmed by Palestinian witnesses and Israeli media outlets.

    A ‘meaningless’ red line
    Palestinian rights advocates argue that the Biden administration is redefining what it considers to be an invasion of Rafah in order to be able to deny that an offensive is happening.

    Yasmine Taeb, the legislative and political director for the advocacy group MPower Change Action, called Biden’s red line on Rafah “absolutely meaningless and merely a continuation of his callous and indefensible Gaza policy”.

    “Israel is in violation of international humanitarian law, as well as US laws and policies, but nearly eight months of carnage in Gaza has apparently still not been enough for Biden to finally take a principled and consistent position by enforcing US laws and immediately suspending arms to Israel,” Taeb told Al Jazeera.

    Israel followed Sunday’s bombing with another attack near Rafah on Tuesday that claimed the lives of at least 21 displaced Palestinians.

    Mohamad Habehh, the director of development at American Muslims for Palestine, also called Biden’s “red line” meaningless.

    “The Biden administration has failed to hold Israel accountable since October. We’re now in the eighth month of this. And we’re seeing that new massacre every single day,” Habehh told Al Jazeera.

    Earlier this month, the US withheld a single shipment of heavy bombs to Israel, citing disagreements over Rafah. The move raised rights advocates’ hopes that Washington may finally be reconsidering its unconditional support for Israel.

    That optimism soon dissipated after several US officials stressed “ironclad” support to Israel and the Biden administration approved the transfer of $1bn in weapons to its ally.

    Israel receives at least $3.8bn in US military aid annually, and last month, Biden signed off on $14bn in additional assistance to the country.

    The Center for International Policy (CIP), a US-based think tank, renewed calls for withholding weapons to Israel after the deadly attack on Sunday.

    “The mass killing of civilians seeking refuge, whether by mistake or otherwise, is exactly what President Biden said would be unacceptable about an Israeli offensive in Rafah,” Dylan Williams, CIP’s vice president for government affairs, said in a statement.

    “Biden shouldn’t wait for a pro forma Israeli investigation — he should stand by his word and halt arms right now.”

    US says massacre ‘heartbreaking’
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described the attack as a “tragic mistake” and promised an investigation.

    At Tuesday’s State Department news briefing, Miller also called the massacre “heartbreaking”, but he attributed it to a “fire” rather than to Israeli bombardment. He said that Washington will be following the Israeli investigation closely.

    But Habehh said citing Israel’s investigations is a tactic the US uses to deflect responsibility, allowing it to indefinitely delay making an assessment on rights violations.

    Essentially, Habehh explained, that gives the US time to wait for stories of Israeli atrocities to “die out”.

    “It’s very hard to allow the person who committed the crime to investigate whether or not they committed it,” Habehh told Al Jazeera.

    As the horrors in Gaza intensify, advocates say it is becoming apparent that the Biden administration has no plans of changing course despite issuing statements against the invasion of Rafah and calling for the protection of civilians.

    “Maybe Biden’s concerns for the Palestinians have floated away along with the port that they were building along the coast of Gaza,” Abuznaid said, referring to a marine hub Washington built to deliver aid to the territory, which was damaged by high tide in recent days.

    Source: Al Jazeera
     
    #2693     May 29, 2024
  4. themickey

    themickey

    Such a lying bunch of sadistic cunts!!
    In the meantime christians and evangelicals are either cheering this on, praising Israel or burying their denying heads in the sand. "Lets turn the world into a bonfire so jesus can return", idiots!
     
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    #2694     May 29, 2024
  5. themickey

    themickey

    #2695     May 29, 2024
  6. themickey

    themickey

    Heartbreaking my ass! Here's more from American politicians....

    Sick
    Nikki Haley Writes ‘Finish Them!’ on Israeli Bomb After Refugee Massacre
    The former UN Ambassador and failed presidential candidate toured areas ravaged byHamas’ Oct. 7 attack

    May 28, 2024
    https://www.rollingstone.com/politi...aley-finish-them-bomb-israel-gaza-1235028702/

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    American politician Nikki Haley during a visit to the 'Nova' Festival site on May 27, 2024 in Re'eim, Israel. Amir Levy/Getty Images

    Days after dozens of Palestinians were killed by Israeli air strikes against displacement camps in Southern Gaza, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley wrote “Finish them!” on Israeli artillery shells.

    Haley, who recently sputtered in her bid to defeat former President Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican nomination, toured a kibbutz ravaged by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack against Israel in the company of current Knesset member and former UN Envoy Danny Danon.

    “If you think this will only be in Israel, if we are arrogant enough, this could absolutely happen in America too and this is the moral of this story,” Haley said at one point during the visit.

    Danon posted a collage of photos on Tuesday showing Haley writing on an artillery shell. “Finish them! This is what my friend, the former ambassador, Nikki Haley wrote today on a shell during a visit to an artillery post on the northern border,” Danon wrote.

    Alongside her chilling note, Haley wrote “America loves Israel!” and autographed the bomb.
    Since Oct. 7, more than 34,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s brutal retaliatory siege against the Gaza Strip. Millions of Palestinians were displaced into the southern region of Rafah, which Israel presented as a safe zone for civilians fleeing bombardment in the north. Alongside the ongoing threat that famine conditions may spread to Rafah, the area is now the subject of bombardment as Israel continues to escalate its assault on Southern Gaza.

    The Israeli government called this weekend’s massacre of displaced people a “tragic accident” — an excuse that holds little water given the frequency with which civilians are being killed and injured.
     
    #2696     May 29, 2024
  7. themickey

    themickey

    So tell me again how the hypocritical American justice system works.....?

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    Parents found guilty and given 10 years for supplying a weapon to their son who killed 4 people.
    Prosecutors in the trials of both Jennifer Crumbley and James Crumbley said the parents were criminally negligent for providing a gun for their child as a Christmas present and for ignoring signs his mental health had deteriorated and that he was potentially violent.

    This is how the Western hypocritical justice system works:
    If you're a small timer in society they throw the book at you.
    If you're the government you have immunity from prosecution of crimes against humanity.
    If you're rich and powerful, you buy your way out of convictions.
     
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    #2697     May 29, 2024
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  8. themickey

    themickey

    America daily supplies very powerful weapons to Israel who are notoriously slaying civilians everyday, "....this is not a crime, this is not a red line....."
     
    #2698     May 29, 2024
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    themickey

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    Aaaahhhhh, yes of course, another 7 months breather for Netanyahu to wreck more havoc and stay in power. Every day counts to hang onto power, "......thanks Biden for your assistance".
    Another 7 months to kill more Palestinians.
    Another 7 months of lying. "Thank you oh merciful God for the extra window".
     
    #2699     May 29, 2024
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    themickey

    Putin: "Thank you Joe for advertising to the world and confirming what I always thought, you lack a spine and can't keep a promise".

    China also, "If we attack Taiwan, Biden will run away, we now know he's full of bluster, lets hope Biden wins the elections".
     
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    #2700     May 29, 2024