Isreal and Saudi Arabia get to do whatever the hell they want, because money.
This despite President Joe Biden declaring in February that “If you harm an American, we will respond.”
By sending them more billions of dollars worth of weapons so they can do it again.
But heaven forbid an American is tried in the Hague!
These extremist settlers are mostly funded by private donors
The US never did anything about Rachel Corrie or the USS Liberty or Hersh Goldberg-Polin. And we can probably add hundreds of Palestinian Americans to the list, but even their names aren’t known in the mainstream media.
It seems the USA capacity to care depends on how much AIPAC will allow it to care.
The US have nevet really cared about the Palestinians in my eyes. If they did they would have stopped the funding of Israel.
Biden is ideologically committed to Israeli apartheid and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, via genocide if necessary. trump, most Republicans, and most Democrats support or at least tolerate it for political expediency. It’s so gross. Because Biden has faced very few political consequences for all this, the Harris campaign, and presumably a Harris administration will just continue on with the hypocrisy, injustice, and violence. I cannot over emphasize that, given the distribution of power in the region, this is a US endeavor.
People will downvote this comment because it is uncomfortable to accept, not because it’s untrue.
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Did you even read the comment bruh
LBJ didn’t care about USS liberty with navy casualties and literal betryal by Israel, they’re sure as hell aren’t gonna care about citizens.
Tbh I think this is all Biden. He’s literally the final arbiter in terms of instructing our military or the state department to do, like, literally anything. They’re doing nothing because he has told them to do nothing.
Ok, I’ll play the devil’s advocate.
He wasn’t there for his family, or in any sort of journalistic capacity. He was there to protest.
Sure. Fine. Protest. I support your right to do so, and in this case I support your cause. However, the US government cannot chase down every rogue citizen that jumps into active conflict because of their bleeding heart. If this had been someone on vacation before the violence started then it would be different. This man was there to stir up shit. That’s the risk he took. No one in any government position told him as he was leaving, “don’t worry, we got your back.” He walked into an active conflict and he got shot. He’s lucky that’s all that happened. Fuck around. Find out. Sure, sometimes the circumstances call for fucking around. That doesn’t mean you don’t get the other part.
Just a couple weeks ago, another “moderate” who DEFINITELY supports the cause was complaining about anti-genocide protesters making him late for work, saying that they need to “do it in Tel Aviv or shut up”.
And here you are, DEFINITELY supporting the cause while saying that this guy did it to himself by “stirring shit up” because he made his opposition to the atrocities heard too close to the snipers of the genocidal occupation force. In a Palestinian-owned part of the West Bank.
If I didn’t know any better, I’d think that NEITHER of you REALLY support the cause or the protesters out there representing everyone who does…
I really admire your ability to justify murder by protesting/existing.
Was he in Isreal as a volunteer or a protester? Also, he went to a protest in an active war zone and then is surprised when one side doesn’t check everyone’s nationality before shooting? It isn’t like Hamas cared what everyone’s nationality was before their attack on the music fesitval.
West Bank wasn’t an “active war zone” until Israel invaded it the other day. Prior to this, it was just a bunch of Israeli illegal aliens trying to take over the land and attacking the Palestinian civilians living there.
I mean, how American are they? What’s their net worth?
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From Mehdi Hassan’s Wikipedia page:
Mehdi Raza Hasan (born July 1979) is a British-American progressive broadcaster, political commentator, columnist, author and co-founder of the media company Zeteo.
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Zeteo was presented as a subscription-based news organization. He announced that the platform will “bring you hard-hitting interviews and unsparing analysis that you won’t find elsewhere”. Hasan presents a new video series on the Zeteo News channel, the first one was called “Debunked! Top seven lies about Gaza”.
Hassan is identified as the founder, CEO, and Editor-in-Chief. His Wiki page says he’s a co-founder but I can’t find mentions of other founders. This is a media company built around Substack newsletters and they generate revenue from subscriptions. This Rolling Stone article says that they also raised $4M in seed money before launch but don’t note the source(s). They just launched in April and there doesn’t appear to be any fact check or bias analysis on them yet.
Prem Thakker is currently listed as a staff reporter for the Intercept, though it says he worked for them “previously.” According to his bio there, he’s also worked for The New Republic, The American Prospect, and CNN. On July 23, he was announced as Zeteo’s “first full-time reporter.”
Jamal Kashoggi was a citizen. The government didn’t care.
Then there was the time Obama drone bombed three U.S. citizens in Yemen. So the U.S. government does not even care when our military kills our citizens.
Was he? I didn’t think so. I know he lived and worked in the US but many non-citizens do.
I looked it up. You’re right. He was a legal permanent resident, but not a citizen. I think that’s kind of a distinction without a difference in this situation, but regardless, he actually brought to light a case where a US citizen was detained without trial and tortured by the Saudis.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/3/2/saudi-arabia-tortured-us-citizen-report
Yeah unfortunately they only care when it’s convenient for their geopolitical interests. Pretty much sums up the entire US foreign policy.
