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submitted 10 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday gave one of his most direct condemnations of the civilian death toll in Gaza and said more needs to be done to “minimize harm to Palestinian civilians.”

Although Blinken commended Israel for its announcement of daily military pauses in areas of Northern Gaza and two evacuation corridors, he said that “there is more that can and should be done to minimize harm to Palestinian civilians.”

The top US diplomat has subtly shifted his messaging in the days since he departed the Middle East earlier this week to more directly voice condemnation of the civilian toll in Gaza and the US’ expectations for the Israeli government. However, he still has not condemned the Israeli government offensive and has continually voiced support for its right to defend itself.

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[-] whenigrowup356@lemmy.world 54 points 10 months ago

"now here's more bomb money."

[-] DarkGamer@kbin.social 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You're not wrong.

Military Industrial Problem: These bombs are killing too many civilians, it's bad for PR.
Military Industrial Solution: Here, let us sell you some GPS kits to make your bombs more accurate.

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Which Israel uses to accurately kill civilians.

I mean not to sound pedantic, but it seems like such a waste even bothering with guided weapons with what they're accomplishing. Bibi could literally save money and just uses regular old toss/dive bombing considering Gaza has zero air defense.

It's like how they used an aim-9x for the Chinese balloon. its so overkill.

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[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago

Was there an acceptable number?

[-] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

Whatever the number was before it became unacceptable or when polling showed they were on the wrong side of public opinion.

[-] deleted@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Yes, they exceeded Ukraine civilian casualties now. /s

Shame on every leader who stood there doing nothing but support killing of civilians.

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[-] Sooperstition@lemmy.one 28 points 10 months ago

Then don’t endorse and finance their genocide motherfucker!

[-] generalpotato@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Right? We strongly condem Israel for Palestinian lives.

Also, here’s billions more to keep it going.

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Was listening to a Canadian retired politician earlier this week. The problem is that 50 billion a year in aide to Israel is a roundabout subsidization of the American military complex. The vast majority of that money is then used to buy American made weapons. It's an elaborate system to steal money from American taxpayers and put it in the pocket of the elite few.

Good luck turning off that tap.

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[-] Aux@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago
[-] sirboozebum@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Should have been sanctions decades ago for ethnic cleansing and Jewish settlements.

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 15 points 10 months ago

Illegal settlements. The UN has called Israel on this bullshit for decades.

You know damn well the Palestinians that are leaving to escape the bombing are not going to have homes to go back to but we aren't supposed to talk about that.

[-] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

That's true. There are now half a million extremist settlers in the West Bank who were allowed to build homes there in violation of international law. The US did nothing even though this has made the idea of a Palestinian state effectively impossible. That was Netanyahu's plan to create "facts on the ground"

[-] sirboozebum@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

Strange how the right to self defense doesn't extend to Palestinians being ethnically cleansed out of the West Bank.

[-] sfcl33t@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago

Talk about too little too fucking late!

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[-] Aceticon@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

The US administration, still providing diplomatic coverage to the Fascists that rule Israel, hence the mild "finger wagging only" criticism and even that immediatelly diluted by commending them for doing the element of their military plan they already wanted to do.

Those bloody hypocrites are trying to thread the needle between de facto "unwaivering support" of the Israeli Fascist regime even as they really go no-holes-barred in their inhuman treatment of those they see as subhuman, and not losing too many votes in America or too much support from allies around the World.

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[-] Silverseren@kbin.social 13 points 10 months ago

If only the IDF had kept the civilian murders to a more reasonable number, it would have made the US look less bad.

[-] generalpotato@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

I’m pretty sure I’ve seen and read Blinken talk about “concrete plans” for the past couple of weeks already. Where are these plans? Where are the discussions around formalizing them with UN’s backing?

Most importantly, what sort of “concrete plan” does not involve a ceasefire and a hostage exchange with Israel on board? Let’s start there.

[-] dx1@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Actions talk and bullshit walks. They talk about "pressure" and "negotiations" but they're trying to ram through a $14 billion arms package.

[-] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

Next we'll be hearing about how it was just some "bad apples" in the IDF that did the genocide and after these two corporals get resigned to desk jobs everything will be ok.

US Cops and IDF run from the same playbook.

[-] mriormro@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

These statements are a bit wild to me.

Whenever I hear this I always wonder what the "right" amount of Palestinians that should have been killed is.

[-] ichbinjasokreativ@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

War is brutal. There is an acceptable amount of civilian casualties, and according to him, Israel has exceeded that number.

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[-] Damage@feddit.it 5 points 10 months ago

Then move away that carrier group. Words mean nothing.

[-] exportdemand@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago
[-] filister@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And they send weapons with which even more civilians would be killed and homes destroyed. Oh the double standards.

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

A few was ok, though, right?

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Oh, have we gotten to the phase where the US tells Israel "We have to start making some statements to mollify the domestic uproar, but just ignore it, we'll be sending you a few B in weapons next week." ?

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 2 points 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Although Blinken commended Israel for its announcement of daily military pauses in areas of Northern Gaza and two evacuation corridors, he said that “there is more that can and should be done to minimize harm to Palestinian civilians.”

The top US diplomat has subtly shifted his messaging in the days since he departed the Middle East earlier this week to more directly voice condemnation of the civilian toll in Gaza and the US’ expectations for the Israeli government.

Far too many have suffered these past weeks,” Blinken said at a press availability in New Delhi at the end of a whirlwind trip that also included stops Israel, Jordan, the West Bank, Turkey, Iraq, Japan and South Korea.

In Tokyo on Wednesday, Blinken described the US’ terms for a “durable and sustainable peace” in Gaza after the war, and on Friday he reiterated that “some progress” had been made in setting those “basic principles.”

Speaking in India Friday, Blinken said “some progress has been made” in the week since he met in Tel Aviv with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, but “this is a process and it’s not always flipping the light switch.”

On Wednesday at a meeting of the G7 Foreign Ministers, however, there was joint supported for humanitarian pauses -– not a ceasefire -– in Gaza “to facilitate urgently needed assistance, civilian movement, and the release of hostages.”


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[-] Alwaysfallingupyup@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Its called losing the war..

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