WASHINGTON (AP) — Top American and Israeli officials held virtual talks Monday as the U.S. pushed alternatives to the ground assault against Hamas under consideration by Israelis in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, a move the U.S. opposes on humanitarian grounds and that has frayed relations between the two allies.
President Joe Biden and his administration have publicly and privately urged Israel for months to refrain from a large-scale incursion into Rafah without a credible plan to relocate and safeguard noncombatants. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted that Israel I forces, which are trying to eradicate Hamas after the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, must be able to enter the city to root out the group’s remaining battalions.
The more than two-and-a-half-hour meeting by secure video conference was described by both sides as constructive and productive, as Washington encourages the Israelis to avoid an all-out assault on the city, where an estimated four battalions of Hamas fighters are dispersed among more than 1.3 million civilians. The White House has instead pushed Israel to take more targeted actions to kill or capture Hamas leaders while limiting civilian impacts.
The potential operation in the city has exposed one of the deepest rifts between Israel and its closest ally, funder and arms supplier. The U.S. has already openly said Israel must do more to allow food and other goods through its blockade of Gaza to avert famine.
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Biden has already pledged full unconditional support to Israel, I don’t know why they’re even talking. Israel can (and probably will) just ignore the advise and go in for the kill.
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Yes sovereign countries do usually make their own decisions based on their own interests. This has been my TED talk.
And that interest is genocide. No apartheid states deserve to exist.
Why is it only Jews are expected to give non citizens the rights of citizens? Canadians don’t vote in America, either, and they don’t even have criminals in charge of the place.
Further, Apartheid is a system of oppression of the majority by the minority. It is a system that treats a certain majority class of citizens as unequal under the law.
When the majority votes for oppressive policies, it’s just called oppression, and it’s shitty but not a war crime. Why do you try and label it as a war crime only when Jews do it?
Do you not see a difference between policy with popular support and consent of the governed versus one without? Kinda the whole thing there with democracy: majority rules? I know as a Hamas supporter these are blasphemous concepts to you.
Hey, Palestinians could stop supporting terrorists and committing their own war crimes, maybe they they would have more favorable status under Israeli law. Still delusional to call it “apartheid.”
Israel was founded on Settler Colonialism and ethnic cleansing, both fundamental to Zionism. Stop being antisemitic and conflating all Jewish people with Israel.
Three main international treaties prohibit and/or explicitly criminalize apartheid: the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid (Apartheid Convention) and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Rome Statute).
The Concept of Transfer 1882-1948 culminating to Plan Dalet in 1948, more details here.
Since its establishment in 1948, Israel has pursued an explicit policy of establishing and maintaining a Jewish demographic hegemony and maximizing its control over land to benefit Jewish Israelis while minimizing the number of Palestinians and restricting their rights and obstructing their ability to challenge this dispossession. In 1967, Israel extended this policy beyond the Green Line to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which it has occupied ever since. Today, all territories controlled by Israel continue to be administered with the purpose of benefiting Jewish Israelis to the detriment of Palestinians, while Palestinian refugees continue to be excluded.
Over the years, Israel has used military rule as a key tool to establish its system of oppression and domination over Palestinians across both sides of the Green Line, applying it over different groups of Palestinians in Israel and the OPT almost continuously since 1948 – with the exception of a seven-month gap in 1967 – to advance Jewish settlement in areas of strategic importance and to dispossess Palestinians of their land and property under the guise of maintaining security.
You can learn more in the Apartheid Reports
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At it again with irrelevant links. Wow three treaties prohibit apartheid? Great, it should be prohibited. Minority rule over the majority is disgusting. Israel doesn’t have apartheid by the literal definition of the word. You’re twisting the word to apply it to Israel, and only to Israel, because you are an anti semite.
Terrorists don’t get to have a country. Stop whitewashing the history.
Ah yes, @[email protected], any link that crushes every one of your points is irrelevant.
Every one of them begins with flagrant twisting of facts to suit the conclusion they want to reach.
They gloss over the distinguishing feature of apartheid, which is minority control of the majority. Period. If it doesn’t have that, it’s not apartheid. I realize that there are people who nevertheless call Israel apartheid. That’s called anti semitism.
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That statement is profoundly ignorant of history.
You mean like the Palestinians who are citizens of Israel but still dehumanized and treated like shit?
Please pop that goddamn fucking bubble already
@[email protected] what? No answer? Why? Because the fact that even Palestinian Israelis get treated like shit and it totally wrecks your flimsy point??
Let me make it easier for you to respond since alm your responses are predictable:
- YOU GOT TRICKED!!!
- THESE ARE JUST REPORTS!!!
- MAYBE THE PALESTINIANS SHOULD JUST STOP RESISTING!!! IDIOT TERROTISTS!!!
- ANY CRITICISM OF ISRAEL IS ANTISEMITIC, PEROIODDDDDDD!!!
So simply answer with 1, 2, 3, or 4… Or all of the above?
It’s because we’ve been through this and my conclusion is that you’re too emotional and do not have the basic media literacy needed to have a productive conversation. My time is worth more.
You mean you took me being upset avout murder and genocide as “being emotional” so it can be another excuse for you to deny this genocide and call people’s reaction unjustified?
And by basic media literacy, you mean that I get my information from verified international sources instead of from that lawfare blog from which you have parroted every argument like a good blind little lawyer?
Yes, I’m a firey person, but at least I’m honest with myself.
But I will take that as a “No, I don’t know anything about Palestinian citizens of Israel… I just repeat crap I heard or read as long as it supports my worldview”
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Hmm, if only I didn’t know you’re a total troll who will jump from point to point.
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Acting like Genocidal Nazis doesn’t serve a countries own interests. This has been my Lemmy comment.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
President Joe Biden and his administration have publicly and privately urged Israel for months to refrain from a large-scale incursion into Rafah without a credible plan to relocate and safeguard noncombatants.
The more than two-and-a-half-hour meeting by secure video conference was described by both sides as constructive and productive, as Washington encourages the Israelis to avoid an all-out assault on the city, where an estimated four battalions of Hamas fighters are dispersed among more than 1.3 million civilians.
The White House has instead pushed Israel to take more targeted actions to kill or capture Hamas leaders while limiting civilian impacts.
“They agreed that they share the objective to see Hamas defeated in Rafah,” the U.S. and Israeli teams known as the Strategic Consultative Group said in a joint statement released by the White House.
The virtual meeting came a week after planned in-person talks were nixed by Netanyahu when the U.S. didn’t veto a U.N. resolution that called for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza.
U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Secretary of State Antony Blinken chaired the meeting for the U.S. side.
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