Unfortunately, the best one can do in the circumstances is laugh at this religously inspired and directed clown circus.
"A cease-fire is key to ending the region’s cycle of violence, Blinken says" Now that is profound. Put that man up for the Nobel Peace Prize.
This clown and Biden can't see that they are the obstacle to a peace fire. Typical with political actors, they want everyone else to respond to create a solution while they do nothing other than hinder a solution. You see this in the current housing mess fiasco, "You need to build more houses while we'll sit on our hands letting the rich and overseas buyers rape the public while giving them tax concessions".
Off-shore buyers are killing our market over here. I'm all for free markets and capitalism, but we have to take care of our people too. This will draw some fire, but I think this should be illegal. It's ridiculous. Crack-houses are selling north of $200K U.S. to companies with PO Boxes for address's.
Yeah, so Blinken keeps hammering on about a peace message while immune from being accountable from creating and sustaining this mess via supplying drug addicted Israel. Drug addicted to power, money, arms, entitlement, violence, egotistical, fluent liars, manipulators, land stealing, suppressing Palestinians. All the while under the umbrella of religious do gooder God's chosen.
While Bibi blatantly screws the American public for everything he can get his hands on, Biden, Blinken and the rest of congress applaud Bibi and give him their blessing. Incredible. Gotto give credit where credit is due, who can pull off such a fantastic heist to such gullible people?
Al Jazeera refutes ‘baseless’ Israeli allegations against Ismail al-Ghoul During its war on Gaza, Israel has claimed its bombings of journalists and civilian targets were strikes against Hamas. Mourners and colleagues holding 'press' signs surround the body of Al-Jazeera Arabic journalist Ismail al-Ghoul in Gaza on July 31, 2024 [Omar Al-Qatta/AFP] By Al Jazeera Staff 1 Aug 2024 Al Jazeera has “strongly” rejected “baseless” Israeli allegations that the network’s correspondent Ismail al-Ghoul, who was killed in an Israeli attack in Gaza, was a Hamas operative. The Doha-based network said on Thursday that the accusation, which Israel presented without proof, is an attempt to justify the “deliberate killing” of al-Ghoul and his companion cameraman, Rami al-Rifi. The two journalists were killed in a direct Israeli air raid on their vehicle in the Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza on Wednesday. Al Jazeera Media Network said the accusation against al-Ghoul “highlights Israel’s long history of fabrications and false evidence used to cover up its heinous crimes”, underscoring that the country has barred international journalists from entering Gaza. “Furthermore, the Israeli occupation forces had previously abducted Ismail on March 18, 2024, during their raid on al-Shifa Hospital, detaining him for a period of time before his release, which debunks and refutes their false claim of his affiliation with any organisation,” the network added. The slain correspondent said at that time that Israeli forces detained him with other journalists and forced them to lie on their stomachs as they were blindfolded and had their hands tied for several hours. “Ismail joined Al Jazeera in November 2023, dedicating all his time and effort to covering the war on Gaza, documenting the Israeli forces’ atrocities in Gaza City and reporting the untold suffering of Palestinians in Gaza,” Al Jazeera Media Network said on Thursday. “Al Jazeera Media Network calls for an independent international investigation into the brutal and heinous crimes committed by the Israeli occupation forces against its journalists and staff since the beginning of the war on Gaza.” In its statement, the Israeli army appeared to confirm that it deliberately targeted al-Ghoul, boasting that the journalist has been “eliminated”. “As part of his role in the military wing, al-Ghoul instructed other operatives on how to record operations and was actively involved in recording and publicizing attacks against [Israeli] troops,” the Israeli military said. “His activities in the field were a vital part of Hamas’s military activity.” Since the outbreak of the war on Gaza, Israel has alleged – mostly without evidence – that its attacks on Palestinians are part of the campaign against Hamas. The Israeli military has bombed schools, hospitals and displaced people’s camps, claiming that it was targeting Hamas fighters. Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza has killed at least 39,480 Palestinians and reduced large parts of the besieged territory to rubble. When Israel killed Hamza Dahdouh, the eldest son of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief and a journalist himself, in January, it also accused him of being part of Hamas – an allegation rejected by the network and press freedom groups. Hamza Dahdouh was killed alongside fellow journalist Mustafa Thuraya. Israel had provided contradicting justifications for that attack. Initially, it claimed that it struck Dahdouh and Thuraya for using a camera drone, assuming that they posed a threat to Israeli forces. Dahdouh and Thuraya wore vests clearly identifying them as press. Again in February, Israel claimed without evidence that Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent Ismail Abu Omar was a Hamas operative after targeting him with an attack that severely injured him. At that time Al Jazeera rejected and condemned the allegation, recalling Israel’s long history of attacking the network and its journalists. Israeli forces had killed the Al Jazeera correspondent Shireen Abu Akleh in the West Bank in 2022 and the network’s cameraman Samer Abudaqa in Gaza in December 2023. Israel, which banned Al Jazeera in the country earlier this year, had also bombed a tower housing the network’s offices in Gaza in 2021. Israel has killed 165 journalists in Gaza since the beginning of the war, according to the Gaza Government Media Office. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters Without Borders have condemned the killing of al-Ghoul and al-Rifi. “Journalists are civilians and should never be targeted. Israel must explain why two more Al Jazeera journalists have been killed in what appears to be a direct strike,” CPJ CEO Jodie Ginsberg said in a statement on Wednesday. Source: Al Jazeera
Who's next? In the IDF's crosshairs: Remaining Hamas leadership recalculate after eliminations - analysis Hamas leadership in crisis after IDF kills top figures Deif and Haniyeh, leaving Sinwar under pressure in Gaza. https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-813022
Biden weighs more US defenses for Israel as the region prepares for Iranian retaliation By Oren Liebermann, CNN Fri August 2, 2024 US President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine Paul Whelan from Russian captivity, in the State Dining Room at the White House on August 1, 2024, in Washington, DC. Alex Wong/Getty Images CNN — President Joe Biden is weighing more US defenses in the Middle East as the US prepares for an Iranian retaliation against Israel that officials say could include an attack on American forces. In a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday, Biden said the US would “support Israel’s defense against threats,” which would include “new defensive US military deployments,” according to a readout of the call....... .......Biden said late Thursday night he is “very concerned” about escalating tensions in the Middle East. ........ ..........Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah hinted that a coordinated attack on Israel could be in the works after Israel assassinated one of its top commanders in Beirut less than 24 hours before the killing of Haniyeh. “Because they have picked a fight with everyone, they don’t know where the response will come from … the response will come separately or coordinated,” he said in a speech Thursday. The US still believes that no one in the region is interested in an all-out war engulfing the Middle East, officials say, but a potential miscalculation risks sparking a broader conflict.