With the full support of the Biden administration, Israel is waging a merciless war of extermination against the 400,000 Palestinians remaining in the northern Gaza Strip as the government of Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly considering a plan to annex the territory.
No food, water, or medicine have entered the north since October 1 as Israeli forces have conducted a campaign of intense airstrikes and ground forces have invaded and encircled much of the area.
As it orders residents to flee the north, Israel has intensified its attacks on Deir Al-Balah, a city in central Gaza that has not suffered the vast scale of destruction unleashed by Israel in other parts of the Strip.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have fled to the city in recent months. In the early morning hours of Monday, Israel bombed a crowded tent encampment for displaced people on the grounds of Al Aqsa hospital, engulfing civilians in a massive ring of fire.
Video from the scene showed patients—some of whom appeared to be in beds attached to IV cords—being burned alive as others in the encampment tried desperately to extinguish the fires with small buckets of water.
“I swear to God I saw people burning in front of me. By god, no one could do anything. The man, the woman and the little girl burning in front of me, I swear to God. In front of me they burned, in front of me. Their souls left in front of me, in front of us, in front of all our eyes,” said Saleh Al-Jafarawi, an independent Palestinian journalist who filmed the massacre. “No one was able to do anything, no one was able to advance and get them. We tried, but we couldn’t, the fire was so strong that no one was able to advance and pull them out of the fire. They were burned alive. Their bodies were charred. This is a crime that we have never seen and no one has seen like it,” he added in a video posted on his Instagram account. “I swear to God the scenes that will remain in our memories, will remain in our hearts forever. We will never forget the scene that I witnessed today: The scene of the child and he is burning in the heart of the fire and no one was able to help him.”
This is what American tax dollars are funding. And neither of the election candidates proposes to stop it.
One of the candidates is a proud member of the administration, her name is even part of it, and she has carried Biden’s line this whole time. She is already supporting this genocide and has pledged to continue doing so via support for Israel during it.
You’re not wrong, but the other candidate has criticized Biden for being too soft in foreign policy and urged Netanyahu to “finish the problem.” Plus, with him you get a fascist autocracy at home.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-israel-gaza-finish-problem-rcna141905
Right, so nobody should support either genocidal candidate, but especially the one actually doing genocide right now.
Re: fascist autocracy, this doesn’t really describe the MAGA political class, which remains fundamentally liberal, just openly reactionary instead of pandering and politely reactionary. You’ll notice that the Biden-Harris administration has continued many salient “fascist” policies from the previous admin and even tried to flank from the right on immigration.
Fascism is a historical development that uniquely opposed an ascendant leftism during liberal imperialist crisis. The conditions in the USA do not qualify.
the MAGA political class, which remains fundamentally liberal
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Historically and globally, liberalism is the dominant political ideology of capitalism. It supports capitalism against all other economic systems, whether that is feudalism or socialism. While it has framed itself as liberatory and egalitarian, and is arguably so in Europe for Europeans when compared to the feudalism it displaced, it has also always been in the context of colonialism, slavery, genocide, and imperial war, so it is not exactly inherently progressive or the “good guys”.
Both the Democrats and GOP are liberal parties. They explicitly support capitalism. Liberalism established the race rules that both the GOP and Democrats internalize and propagate, of course the the GOP being more openly racist and Democrats hiding behind euphemisms and forms of oppression that they normalize, e.g. funding the shit out of cops and going all-in on nationalism. They are just different flavors of the same dominant ideology and they gladly join hands to crush the left when it threatens to gain political power by any means.
Thank you for actually explaining it. You are a stronger leftist than I, but even I know that’s a hard truth to digest for a modern US liberal.
Of course! I enjoy explaining things. It helps internalize them and to make sure whether I really know something or just remember the key takeaways. Sometimes I have to say, “I don’t know” and go re-read some books…
Let’s keep fighting the good fight!
How are you going to fix it in 3 weeks, oh one with all of the answers?
I didn’t say I would. Do your best to not make things up. It’s better to respond to what I actually say rather than use loaded questions like, “when did you stop beating your wife?”
Stop arming their genocide.
Sorry your liberal mind is too lost in hyper reality to understand that.
This is what those pro Israeli chucklefucks are defending. These kinds of people.
Isn’treal is ethnically cleansing Northern Gaza to expand its Lebensraum.
What an interesting nomenclature for “death camp”
