Fetterman denies Gaza genocide, claims it's a "just war"
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Democratic leaders in US House ignore constituents on Palestinian rights as Trump targets activists for those rights.

Democratic Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania continued the Democrats’ piling on against Palestinians this past Sunday.

Fetterman asserted to CNN’s Manu Raju: “There’s no ethnic cleansing. It’s not a genocide. This is a just war.”

Asked by Raju if Israel was using “starvation as a weapon,” he claimed: “No. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Israel is not deliberately starving people, absolutely.”

He added: “Those conditions are miserable there. And it is hell on earth. Why? Some people blame Israel for that? I blame Hamas and Iran for that thing.”

This continues most Democrats’ failure to recognize the Gaza genocide, even walking back the genocide assertion in the recent case of Congresswoman Katherine Clark, a top leader in the House of Representatives.

  • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    17 days ago

    It’s not difficult to find proof that Israel is engaging in genocide. Listen to this podcast if you’re not sure;

    https://www.thisamericanlife.org/859/chaos-graph?2024

    “Out of the 53 American medical workers surveyed who did emergency care for children in Gaza, 44 said they saw kids shot in the head or chest.”

    What they’re talking about is not kids who were hit by strays or shrapnel. They aren’t talking about teenagers old enough to wield weapons. They are taking about 1 - 2 year old BABIES being shot in the head, execution style.

    • sqgl@sh.itjust.works
      32·
      16 days ago

      Contrast that with an ex Green beret (ie UK commando) GHF contractor who lied about a Palestinian boy being killed by IDF.

      This guy went on a media tour to blast GHF, then text messages come out showing he was “let go” and then he asked again and again to come back. Now the kid he said he saw killed is actually alive.

      Al Jazeera haven’t corrected their story.

      • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        16 days ago

        I’m not sure what you’re saying. Are you saying that because one mercenary lied it means we should disregard the reports from multiple doctors who treated the children?

        • sqgl@sh.itjust.works
          2·
          16 days ago

          I am saying that when a lie is exposed Al Jazeera do not issue a correction. That damages their integrity.

          Think about it: makes more sense for Hamas to shoot Palestinians because they are pissed off about looting made more difficult although they do still loot 87% (along with non-Hamas criminals) according to UN stats which are updated regularly.

          Here is a non-Gaza example of Al Jazeera lack of integrity:

          • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            15 days ago

            Ok, I still don’t know what that has to do with what I posted, but if you’re looking at integrity, it makes more sense to look at the response of Israel’s ally to the report. The U.S. hasn’t issued a correction in response to credible reports of Israel murdering children.

            From the transcript of the episode:

            I talked with three people who worked at the US State Department and reviewed allegations like this, including the person who, until recently, was the Ambassador at Large for Global Criminal Justice, a position that used to be called the War Crimes Ambassador. They all agreed the doctors’ report sounded credible and significant enough to investigate.

            Each of them said the next step should be asking Israel for answers. One, who is involved in vetting US weapons transfers, told me if this had been another country other than Israel, this is what would have happened.

            A few years ago, a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee received reports that Mexican marine units were executing and disappearing people. The US stopped a shipment of machine guns for more than two years while they investigated the allegations. Eventually, Mexico agreed that American weapons wouldn’t go to those units.

            But that isn’t what happened here. The Biden administration never met with Feroze and Mark. They didn’t investigate these claims or make any public statements asking Israel to stop shooting kids in Gaza. They didn’t try to get to the bottom of these allegations.

            Of course it should come as no surprise that President Pedophile’s administration doesn’t care about murdered children either.