by Oui
Wed Feb 21st, 2024 at 06:15:48 AM EST
The leading western power has lost all legitimacy as a broker for peace in the Middle East or anywhere in the world. No moral setting, just the might of the gun as coercion to get its way. Europe has joined in this miserable adventure and too has lost its established credibility of a peacemaker. #WeAreNato #WeAreUnited
WE ARE COMPLICIT IN GENOCIDAAL ACTS IN PALESTINE
Global reactions will follow ... when will Biden's term end? Another 11 months ... America offers no alternative ...
Israeli forces fired on food convoy in Gaza, UN documents and satellite analysis reveals | CNN |
UNRWA’s director, Tom White, said the convoy had been hit by Israeli naval gunfire and shared two photographs on X, formerly Twitter, showing a flat-bed truck with a hole where its cargo had been, and boxes of supplies scattered on the road. The hole was in the side of the truck that was facing out to sea, according to CNN’s geolocation of the images, indicating it had been hit by a munition fired from that direction.
CNN reviewed satellite imagery taken two hours after the incident that shows three Israeli missile boats a few kilometers offshore. These boats have formed part of a regular deployment since the start of the war, which the IDF has said is aimed at conducting surveillance and attacking Gaza from the west. In December, the IDF said their navy had “struck hundreds of targets and provided support to soldiers on the ground.”
“It’s really difficult to see how this could be a legal attack,” Janina Dill, co-director at Oxford University’s Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, told CNN of the February 5 incident. “At a minimum it would look like a very serious violation of international humanitarian law. Whether it’s also criminal then depends on questions of intent, which is something that needs to be established in a court of law.”
UNRWA’s head legal advisor, Philippa Greer, said she was on the convoy when it was hit and posted on X to say that the team were “extremely lucky” no one was injured.
Afterwards, the convoy still requested permission to proceed through an Israeli checkpoint that supervises entry into northern Gaza, but it was denied entry.
Scenes remind me of the Dutch hunger winter 1944-45
The Hunger Winter: the Dutch famine of 1944-45 | Anne Frank Foundation |
The liberation of the south of the Netherlands in the autumn of 1944 affected the occupied west of the Netherlands in a bad way.
The Dutch government in London called for a major strike in railway transport to support Operation Market Garden on 17 September 1944. 30,000 railway workers went on strike. The trains stopped running until the end of the war. But as a punitive measure, the Nazis blocked food transports to the provinces of North and South Holland for six weeks. Using their own trains, the Germans had no trouble taking care of their own supplies.
UN News 8th Dec. — 46.6 million views
White House Joe Biden and Antony Blinken’s dragging their feet to please Netanyahu and his far-right extremists to stay in power and out of jail. Innocent Palestinians are being slaughtered every minute … the only democracy in the Middle East and the most “moral” army in the world. All bull$hit comes tumbling down … sliding into the abyss … problem with war propaganda is where you yourself start believing the crap and create your own fantasy world … a Hollywood theme.
Amnesty International
Agnes Callamard, Amnesty’s secretary general, said on X that the US veto “displays a callous disregard for civilian suffering in the face of a staggering death toll”. The statement also said that Washington “has brazenly wielded and weaponized its veto to strongarm the UN Security Council, further undermining its credibility and ability to live up to its mandate to maintain international peace and security”.
Doctors Without Borders
Avril Benoit, executive director of Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF) USA: “By vetoing this resolution, the US stands alone in casting its vote against humanity. The US veto stands in sharp contrast to the values it professes to uphold. By continuing to provide diplomatic cover for the ongoing atrocities in Gaza, the US is signaling that international humanitarian law can be applied selectively — and that the lives of some people matter less than the lives of others …. The US veto makes it complicit in the carnage in Gaza.”
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry expressed “regret” at the veto and stressed the “need now more than ever to reform the Security Council to carry out its responsibilities in maintaining peace and security with credibility and without double standards”.
World slams US ceasefire veto at UN Security Council on Israel’s Gaza war | Al Jazeera |
China says US veto gives a green light for Israel’s continued slaughter in Gaza
The US has brazenly wielded and weaponized its
veto to strongarm the UN Security Council, further
undermining its credibility and ability to live up to its
mandate to maintain international peace and security.
Agnès Callamard
