Josh Boak – Associated Press May 12, 2024
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday delivered some of the Biden administration’s strongest public criticism yet of Israel’s conduct of the war in Gaza, saying Israeli tactics have meant “a horrible loss of life of innocent civilians” but failed to neutralize Hamas leaders and fighters and could drive a lasting insurgency.
In a pair of TV interviews, Blinken underscored that the United States believes Israeli forces should “get out of Gaza,” but also is waiting to see credible plans from Israel for security and governance in the territory after the war.
Hamas has reemerged in parts of Gaza, Blinken said, and “heavy action” by Israeli forces in the southern city of Rafah risks leaving America’s closest Mideast ally “holding the bag on an enduring insurgency.”
He said the United States has worked with Arab countries and others for weeks on developing “credible plans for security, for governance, for rebuilding” in Gaza, but ”we haven’t seen that come from Israel. … We need to see that, too.”
Blinken also said that as Israel pushes deeper in Rafah in the south, a military operation may “have some initial success” but risks “terrible harm” to the population without solving a problem “that both of us want to solve, which is making sure Hamas cannot again govern Gaza.” More than a million Palestinians have crowded into Rafah in hopes of refuge as Israel’s offensive pushed across Gaza. Israel has said the city also hosts four battalions of Hamas fighters.
Israel’s conduct of the war, Blinken said, has put the country “on the trajectory, potentially, to inherit an insurgency with many armed Hamas left or, if it leaves, a vacuum filled by chaos, filled by anarchy, and probably refilled by Hamas. We’ve been talking to them about a much better way of getting an enduring result, enduring security.”
Blinken also echoed, for the first time publicly by a U.S. official, the findings of a new Biden administration report to Congress on Friday that said Israel’s use of U.S.-provided weapons in Gaza likely violated international humanitarian law. The report also said wartime conditions prevented American officials from determining that for certain in specific airstrikes.
“When it comes to the use of weapons, concerns about incidents where given the totality of the damage that’s been done to children, women, men, it was reasonable to assess that, in certain instances, Israel acted in ways that are not consistent with international humanitarian law,” Blinken said. He cited “the horrible loss of life of innocent civilians.”
Blinken spoke to Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Sunday, reiterating the longstanding U.S. opposition to what is now the growing Israeli offensive in Rafah, given the toll on civilians there, according to the State Department’s recounting of the call.
Blinken urged Gallant to allow humanitarian workers to bring aid into Gaza and distribute it. Israel’s offensive into Rafah has shut down one of the two main border crossings into the territory for a week, and most operations have stopped at the other one after it was targeted by a Hamas rocket attack.
Seven months of fighting and Israeli restrictions on aid deliveries already have led to famine in the north of Gaza. Aid organizations say the now nearly total cutoff of food, medicine and fuel and the disruption from the Rafah offensive have humanitarian operations across Gaza on the brink of collapse.
Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, in a call Sunday with his Israeli counterpart, Tzachi Hanegbi, raised concerns about a military ground operation in Rafah and discussed “alternative courses of action” that would ensure Hamas is defeated “everywhere in Gaza,” according to a White House summary of the conversation. Hanegbi “confirmed that Israel is taking U.S. concerns into account,” the White House said.
The war began on Oct. 7 after an attack against Israel by Hamas that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians. About 250 people were taken hostage. Israel’s offensive has killed more than 35,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, according to the health ministry in Gaza.
There are increasing tensions between Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about how the war has been conducted, and also domestic tensions about U.S. support for Israel, with protests on U.S. college campuses and many Republican lawmakers saying that Biden needs to give Israel whatever it needs. The issue could play a major role in the outcome of November’s presidential election.
Biden said in an interview last week with CNN that his administration would not provide weapons that Israel could use for an all-out assault in Rafah.
Blinken appeared on CBS’ “Face the Nation” and NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Hmmm, rats and sinking ships methinks. The jews know there is a reckoning coming and they are running scared.
The only thing that has changed enough is public perception. US-backed Israeli slaughter would continue unhindered if it could but the public mood makes it clear that after the US empire collapses these mass murderers may be made to pay. No longer can they scoff at being held to account one day.
Fake opposition / public posturing to create the appearance that the U.S. govt. is not ZOG and has real autonomy and authority to make policy decisions. The phony outrage/ criticism , and urgent demands for cease fire by politicians and international puppet institutions will continue,while no legitimate actions will be taken. .Ziostan will continue to make demands for non-existent hostages to be released until the genocide / expulsion is complete.
Ball earther Lewis Jones has no beverage cups or glasses in his home. If he wants a drink of water , he simply put his hand under the spigot and builds up a six inch column of water in his palm and sips from it. In his refrigerator he always has a six pack of beer which consists of a piece of cardboard with six slots , each slot filled with a cylinder of beer – no bottles needed, no recycling , thereby reducing his carbon footprint and fighting climate change.
Mr Blinken is finally coming to his senses, however it must be because of the latest polls. This binden is khazarian mafia and trump is kosher mafia…competing forces. All about fraud and corruption.
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On Thu, 2 May 2024 at 11:48, Mitch Gold wrote:
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you make a common error in confusing Zionist, with zionist. there is a huge dif-ference that is not recognized when people speak.
I am a zionist NOT a Zionist. It is those professing Zionism that creates the problems of the world as you well point out. this distinction is not recognized by the ignorant Americans.
My work is to have world Peace and that is zionist desire. The Zionists have gone crazy and there is no way to get their attention. I think our solution of redesigning the uN by changing the UNRC position is the best prospect for Peace. I also propose that we take Jerusalem out of the two-state solution and make it a third entity like the Vatican – under the control of a council made up of the main religions that have a base there. The US had not approached this as a solution as the US does not want Peace. Its economy is based upon war and that has to become part of the global agenda – Russia and the US both need war to keep their economies alive – and this must stop.
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more kabuki theater for the morons…look at the ugly visage on this blinken mongrel creep
Anthony Hymie Blinkstein still fully deserves to have his tongue ripped out and stuffed up his own ass, then get dragged by the ankles to the front of the ADL offices, receive a vigorous flogging, and get rolled in pig shit and salt. Then hanged, of course.
If the Jews had been quietly killing off the Palestinians ever since 1948 through vaccines and infertility agents, would there be any real Jewish opposition in the public eye? Seriously though, if the majority of Jews today turn a blind eye to the open and blatant slaughter in Gaza but it is only because of the adverse publicity generating the opposition within their ranks, then how do we know they have not been killing them off with more covert means all these years? Gaza has made it clear that Israel is an exclusive nation for Jews only, and the must hold for any expansion into other Arab territories. Christians and Muslims are not welcome and will continue to be persecuted. The same holds for the US except now for Muslims.
I assume that Jonathan Greenblech would get a similar treatment? And Shmuley Boteach too when they’re at it.
markie at 9:59–thanks for that; you kicked me out of a false conception that you were not, after all, totally insane
The next selection farce is Nov. 5th, a mere 6 months away.
The woke Left is outraged at Biden and his support for the Gaza holocaust slaughter.
Thus Biden and Blinken are feigning that they are against the war.
It is all pre-election theater. The whore is pretending to control the pimp.
If Biden wanted to stop Israel he would stop funding it.
Biden is a POS funding total genocide, he wants Israel to stop until the election is over and then business a usual.
Your not very good at
“snappy comebacks” Lewis,
I woudnt bother if I were you old stick….
Youre not very good at
“snappy comebacks” Lewis,
I woudnt bother if I were you old stick….
TeeJay–but I am me and I do bother, because most of the readers are not demented like you and marckckiee