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He pressed Pelosi on whether the United States has a red line for Israel and whether they “own” the Gaza operation as much as their ally.

“If you don’t like what Israel is doing, and the president has made it clear that some of what Israel is doing he doesn’t like, and you go on supplying them with hardware to do these things you own this operation every bit as much as they do, don’t you?” Sebastian asked the former House Speaker.

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[–] livus@kbin.social 29 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

Self-awareness in short supply:

The behavior of Netanyahu is, in my view, inexcusable in terms of how it has effected the collateral damage of children and families and the rest, but nobody can take away the right of any country to dEfEnd itSeLf

If something's inexcusable then don't make excuses.

[–] ButtermilkBiscuit@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

TIL "dEfEnSE!!!" = Starving an entire ethnic group, blocking aid, enforcing apartheid, stealing land, executing civilians in the street with impunity, killing 30k mostly women and children, bombing hospitals, bombing refugee camps, bombing ambulances, torturing detainees, and committing genocide. Just like how those Nazis in the 40s were just defending Germany right?

More double speak from the "left" in the US.

[–] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The right supports Israel's genocide too. It's a whole lot easier to count the handful of people in DC that don't support it.

[–] ButtermilkBiscuit@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Yeah agree, I just hate how frequently dems will call Israel's action "brutal", "inexcusable", or condem their settlers violence in one breath then vote to approve stand alone appropriations for their government in another.

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