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Rep. Rashida Tlaib: “But Palestinians are not just numbers. Behind these numbers are real people — mothers, fathers, sons, daughters — who have had their lives stolen from them and their families torn apart. And we should not be trying to hide it. These are innocent children and babies who have been bombed in their tents, burned alive, dismembered and deliberately starved to death. Where is our shared humanity in this chamber? There is so much anti-Palestinian racism in this chamber that my colleagues don’t even want to acknowledge that Palestinians exist at all, not when they’re alive and now not even when they’re dead. It’s absolutely disgusting. This is genocide denial.”

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[–] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 48 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Man what the fuck. What is their justification for this.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

that anything coming from a gazan mouth must be propaganda; but they're the only ones on the ground counting their numbers are smaller than others' estimates

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 8 points 4 months ago

Should be mentioned that the Israeli gov kicked out all the other human rights orgs

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The American Empire requires Israel as an Imperialist foothold in the Middle East. They will protect Israel and manufacture consent as much as they can to prevent public backlash.

[–] retrospectology@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

They actually don't even need Israel, Turkey is our NATO ally already and has the same access to the sea. Obviously Erdogan is a authoritarian dickshit, but at least they're not actively committing a genocide.

Israel has no dramatic geopolitical value to the US at this point, they're basically just a client. Though you wouldn't think it by the way Netanyahu yanks Biden around by his testicles. The unquestioning support for Israel is ideological for people like Biden, and for others it's all the money from AIPAC and JStreet

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This vote, not to mention the history of the last 70 years, shows that they very much do think they need Israel.