White House suggests 'pauses' in Israel-Hamas conflict to get people out

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White House suggests 'pauses' in Israel-Hamas conflict to get people out - Lemmy.World

The White House on Thursday said it was exploring a series of pauses in the Israel-Hamas conflict to help people safely exit Gaza and allow humanitarian aid to get in, but reiterated its opposition to a full ceasefire. National security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters that such pauses should be temporary and localized, and insisted they would not stop Israel from defending itself. “What we’re trying to do is explore the idea of as many pauses as might be necessary to continue to get aid out and to continue to work to get people out safely, including hostages,” he told reporters at a regular White House briefing.

If the US helps get people out of Gaza, and Israel eventually blocks their return, then the US has directly participated in ethnic cleansing. I mean, I think we are already culpable in Israel’s multifaceted war crime factory, but this is a remarkable escalation of that policy. I suppose that I’d have more respect for the US if it didn’t try to cloak its support of apartheid and genocide in feel good bullshit rhetoric like “democracy” and “defense” and “safety”. In reality Israel is fascist ethnostate, this is a genocide, and we are facilitating ethnic cleansing. The Biden administration is monstrous.

I'm genuinely curious, what course of action here could the US do that you wouldn't criticize? If the US helps citizens evacuate a war zone, you call it ethnic cleansing. If the US instead didn't do this and supported keeping them in Gaza, you'd say America is forcing them to be bombed to death.

I can't help but think that you're fundamentally always going to criticize the US and then find a justification for it afterwards.

Call for complete seize fire, get foreigner national out, negotiation for hostage release, initiate peace talk, send peace keeping troop via UN to West Bank, so on and so forth. There’s a lot of thing a world leader can do to stop the war, instead he decided to be a yes man for a far right war criminal, sabotage every call for seize fire and keep emphasise on “right to defend” and “condemn hamas” like a broken clock. Do note that his decision help escalate the tension within the region.

get foreigner national out

Actively working on it.

negotiation for hostage release

Actively working on it.

initiate peace talk

Being discussed

send peace keeping troop via UN to West Bank

I'm pretty sure you would call this more western imperialism.

Keep emphasize [...] “condemn hamas”

If you don't think that Hamas should be condemned, that says more about you than it does about Joe Biden.

It's 'ceasefire', by the way.

No the Israeli settlers stealing land in the West Bank is already western imperialism. What they’re suggesting is sending people to stop the imperialism.