• SulaymanF@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Blinken has zero credibility. He’s been hammering Palestinian negotiators in public and trying to speak soothingly to Netanyahu, all because he’s folllwing Biden’s orders. He’s literally putting Israeli lives over those of Americans.

    • Twentytwodividedby7@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      How is he putting Israeli lives over Americans? You can say he favors Isreali lives over Palestinian ones, but at what point are we going to accept that Isreal is at war, not the US? We cannot force Isreal to just stop, it’s not that simple.

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        4 months ago

        First of all, Israel is not at war. They’re engaging in a one-sided genocide and SHOULD be forced to stop by the entire international community.

        Second of all, some of the people killed by Israel in Gaza are related to Americans or are American citizens themselves, a notable example being Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

        Israel is no friend to Americans. It’s a fascist apartheid regime committing genocide and a laundry list of other war crimes using mostly American weapons and tens of billions in funding from the American government.

        The US is in a unique position to save potentially hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives by cutting off all of that support and instead boycott, divest, and sanction.