She does, autism often makes for picky eaters. My niece went through a phase where she would only eat white or very pale food. Stunted her growth but she is still taller than GWB. Makes you think what's happening to kids in Gaza, perminently developmentally damaged. GWB's wife is taller than him if I recall, I guess he can hide behind her if something in the real world scares him.
They being dead, not much to do. I'd be more concerned about the Israeli leaders who knew an attack was coming, and are all still in power. Accountability can't be one-sided and to me omission is also a sin. Of these only Haliva resigned, on April 22, 2024, scapegoat because he made some admissions of conscience when the others are hanging in until "after the war". You could add to this list a bunch of other Settler terrorist movement ministers who did everything they could to inflame tensions before the attack. They are also still in power.
As I have outlined in the past, one of the alternatives moving forward is to turn over Gaza to the Palestinian Authority. The PA is actively trying to position themselves internationally as the best option for Gaza and an eventual two-state solution. The Palestinian Authority is making all sorts of commitments to reform. However their talking points mainly cover the Gaza situation. For example... “Hamas will no longer rule Gaza and must hand over its weapons and military capabilities to the Palestinian Security Forces, which will oversee their removal outside the occupied Palestinian territory, with Arab and international support,” the Élysée Palace cited Abbas as writing. Mentioning the word "removal" has some connotations-- because previously Fatah promised to remove Hamas by killing each and every last one of them. France says Palestinian Authority makes ‘unprecedented commitments’ to reform ahead of conference on statehood https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/10/europe/france-palestinian-authority-reform-commitments-intl
Britain sanctions 2 Israeli ministers for ‘inciting extremist violence’ against Palestinians Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich’s Gaza comments are “monstrous,” U.K. Foreign Minister David Lammy says. Ben-Gvir and Smotrich have consistently been the most hard-line ministers in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and are crucial allies keeping him in power. | Pool photo by Abir Sultan/EFE via EPA June 10, 2025 3:46 pm CET By Noah Keate and Esther Webber https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-lammy-sanction-israel-ministers-gaza-comments-ben-gvir-smotrich/ LONDON — Britain will formally sanction two far-right Israeli ministers for their comments over Gaza, the U.K. confirmed Tuesday. The assets of Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich will be frozen and the pair will also face travel bans, the Times first reported. No financial institutions will be allowed to deal with them. U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy said the ministers had “incited extremist violence and serious abuses of Palestinian human rights.” He added: “These actions are not acceptable. This is why we have taken action now — to hold those responsible to account.” In response, Israel said: “It is outrageous that elected representatives and members of the government are subjected to these kind of measures.” Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said the Cabinet would meet next week to respond to what he called the “unacceptable decision.” While the U.S. has continued to stand resolutely behind Israel as it wages war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip, other longtime allies — including the EU, Britain and Canada — have grown increasingly critical of Israel and its military tactics. Israel launched its military assault on Gaza in response for the Hamas militant group’s violent attack on Oct. 7, 2023, which killed more than 1,000 Israelis. The death toll in Gaza has now surpassed 50,000 people, according to Gazan health officials, as Israel’s offensive continues. Ben-Gvir and Smotrich have consistently been the most hard-line ministers in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and are crucial allies keeping him in power. Ben-Gvir briefly resigned from Netanyahu’s Cabinet in January during the short ceasefire, before rejoining in March when fighting resumed. He said the resumption of aid deliveries into Gaza was a “serious and grave mistake.” Smotrich has approved the expansion of West Bank settlements and said that “not even a grain of wheat” should be allowed into Gaza. He also said Palestinians would be relocated to third countries after the war. The U.K. has been working on the new sanctions for weeks, as France’s push for recognition of Palestinian statehood hit a wall. Several Arab nations have been pushing for Western countries to focus their efforts on economic measures. British lawmakers who have been calling on the government to recognize Palestinian statehood were told that sanctions would take priority, two Labour MPs granted anonymity to speak candidly told POLITICO. Keir Starmer told MPs last week the U.K. was “looking at further action, along with our allies, including sanctions” while French President Emmanuel Macron gave similar indications. Last month, Starmer, Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney issued a joint statement decrying the “intolerable” humanitarian situation in the besieged coastal enclave. “We will not stand by while the Netanyahu government pursues these egregious actions. If Israel does not cease the renewed military offensive and lift its restrictions on humanitarian aid, we will take further concrete actions in response,” they added. Lammy earlier told the Commons the comments of ministers were “monstrous” for calling for the relocation of Gazans. He added: “We must call this what it is. It is extremism. It is dangerous. It is repellent. It is monstrous and I condemn it in the strongest possible terms.”
It wasn’t polite letter writing that brought this about, it was sustained activism. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty set the tone, Yachad (a British Jewish group) lobbied ministers directly and PSC mobilized grassroots pressure and cross-party alliances in Parliament. B’Tselem, though based in Israel, provided crucial documentation of settler violence that UK groups leaned on heavily. Also, I happen to know someone who was directly involved in shifting David Lammy’s stance, Carney's also. This was a coordinated, activist-led effort, not some polite parliamentary nudge. To he fair, Israel itself could not have done more to piss people off. There are others to go on the sanction list. Yoav Gallant, the Israeli Minister of Defense, referred to the Palestinian population in Gaza as “human animals” and ordered a complete siege of the territory, explicitly cutting off electricity, water, and fuel. Gallant’s language and decisions shaped not only the operational tempo of the war but also the moral tenor of the campaign. Given his direct command position, his liability for any war crimes is particularly significant. Avi Dichter, currently serving as Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, is another senior figure whose statements have raised alarm. Referring to the Israeli assault as a “Gaza Nakba 2023,” he appeared to endorse the expulsion or mass displacement of Palestinians. Tzachi Hanegbi, the Israeli National Security Advisor, played a key strategic role in coordinating the government’s wartime response. As the central figure in security planning, his decisions concerning the restriction of humanitarian aid, justified as military necessity, implicate him directly in what experts describe as deliberate acts of starvation and deprivation. His role as a principal architect of policy makes him a legitimate target for sanctions. Nir Barkat, Minister of Economy, proposed the “voluntary” relocation of Palestinians to third countries. Though the proposal was framed in moderate terms, the suggestion of displacing a population during wartime raises serious concerns. When the environment created by the occupying force renders “voluntary” choices effectively coerced, such actions may qualify as forced transfer, a serious breach of international law. Amichai Eliyahu, the Minister of Heritage and a member of Ben-Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit party, all of which need be sanctioned. He publicly suggested that Israel consider dropping a nuclear bomb on Gaza. Finally, Gideon Sa’ar and Ron Dermer, while more cautious in their public statements, have shown unwavering support for the government's conduct. Their roles in shaping and defending Israeli policy, particularly in the international arena, may not involve direct incitement, but they remain influential participants and should not be exempt from scrutiny. Of course there many IDF commanders and other intelligence leaders plus hundreds of identifiable soldiers who need to be brought to justice in the ICC.
Again you have a child level understanding of where insurgents begin and end, too much Roy Rogers as a kid. Unlike Trigger, you have blinkers. Short old men with complexes to unzip... Therapy is not for all. Set to play:
In case if there was any doubt about the change in U.S. policy under the Trump administration. US ambassador to Israel says US no longer pursuing goal of independent Palestinian state Mike Huckabee suggested any future Palestinian state should be carved out of ‘a Muslim country’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/10/mike-huckabee-independent-palestinian-state Mike Huckabee, the US ambassador to Israel, has said that the US is no longer pursuing the goal of an independent Palestinian state, marking what analysts describe as the most explicit abandonment yet of a cornerstone of US Middle East diplomacy. Asked during an interview with Bloomberg News if a Palestinian state remains a goal of US policy, he replied: “I don’t think so.” The former Arkansas governor chosen by Donald Trump as his envoy to Israel went further by suggesting that any future Palestinian entity could be carved out of “a Muslim country” rather than requiring Israel to cede territory. “Unless there are some significant things that happen that change the culture, there’s no room for it,” Huckabee was quoted as saying. Those probably won’t happen “in our lifetime”, he told the news agency. When pressed on Palestinian aspirations in the West Bank, where 3 million Palestinians live under Israeli occupation, Huckabee employed Israeli government terminology, asking: “Does it have to be in Judea and Samaria?” Trump, in his first term, was relatively tepid in his approach to a two-state solution, a longtime pillar of US Middle East policy, and he has given little sign of where he stands on the issue in his second term. The state department did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Middle East analysts said the comments made explicit a shift that has been broadly expected. “This is not at all surprising given what we’ve seen in the last four-plus months, including the administration’s open support for expelling the population of Gaza, the legitimization of Israeli settlement and annexation policies,” said Khaled Elgindy, a scholar at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and former adviser to Palestinian negotiators. “This is an administration that is committed to Palestinian erasure, both physical and political,” Elgindy said. “The signs were there even in the first Trump term, which nominally supported a Palestinian ‘state’ that was shorn of all sovereignty and under permanent Israeli control. At least now they’ve abandoned the pretense.” Yousef Munayyer, head of Palestine/Israel Program at the Arab Center Washington DC, said Huckabee was merely articulating what US policy has long demonstrated in practice. “Mike Huckabee is saying out loud what US actions have been saying for decades and across different administrations,” he said. “Whatever commitments have been made in statements about a Palestinian state over time, US policy has never matched those stated commitments and only undercut them.” The ambassador’s position has deep roots in his evangelical Christian beliefs and longstanding support for Israeli settlement expansion. During his 2008 presidential campaign, Huckabee said: “There is no such thing as a Palestinian.” In a 2017 visit to the occupied West Bank, he rejected the concept of Israeli occupation entirely. “I think Israel has title deed to Judea and Samaria,” said Huckabee at the time. “There are certain words I refuse to use. There is no such thing as a West Bank. It’s Judea and Samaria. There’s no such thing as a settlement. They’re communities, they’re neighborhoods, they’re cities. There’s no such thing as an occupation.” What distinguishes Huckabee, Munayyer argued, has been his willingness to be explicit about objectives that previous officials had kept veiled. “What makes Huckabee unique is that he is shameless enough to admit out loud the goal of erasing the Palestinian people.” The analysts add that Huckabee’s explicit rejection of Palestinian statehood, which comes as the war in Gaza has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and displaced most of the territory’s more than 2 million residents, would also create diplomatic complications for US allies. “This will put European and Arab states in a bind, since they are still strongly committed to two states but have always deferred to Washington,” Elgindy said. Hours after Huckabee’s comments were reported, the US imposed sanctions on a leading Palestinian human rights organization, Addameer, as well as five charity groups in the Middle East and Europe, claiming that they support Palestinian militants. The US treasury department alleged that Addameer, which provides legal services to Palestinians detained by Israel or the Palestinian Authority in the occupied West Bank, “has long supported and is affiliated” with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a militant group classified as a terrorist organization by the US and EU. Israel raided the West Bank offices of Addameer and other groups in 2022 over their alleged PFLP links. The United Nations condemned that raid at the time, saying that Israeli authorities had not presented to the UN any credible evidence to justify their declarations. The Guardian later reported that a classified CIA report showed the agency had been unable to find any evidence to support Israel’s description of the group as a “terrorist organization”.