USA is so weak, does everything Israel tells them to
Rights group urges blacklisting of Israeli ‘Netzah Yehuda’ battalion
Democracy for the Arab World now (DAWN), a US-based rights group, has said that the State Department should suspend US foreign military assistance to the battalion and investigate all Israeli military units receiving US military funding in light of extensive evidence of widespread and systematic human rights violations.
In a statement, the group accused Secretary of State Antony Blinken of undermining and avoiding enforcement of the Leahy Law to sanction abusive Israeli units “by creating new bureaucratic procedures to allow Israel additional time to remediate abuses, despite failing to do so for at least two years.”
“According to the State Department’s own procedures and the recommendations of its most senior staff, Secretary Blinken should have blacklisted the Netzah Yehuda Battalion at least a year ago,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, DAWN’s executive director.
“Secretary Blinken is undermining the black letter rules of our own laws by inventing new, procedural, delaying tactics to avoid sanctioning even a single Israeli unit.”
US warns ICC against arrest warrants after Israeli threat: Report
After a threat against the Palestinian Authority (PA) by Israel, the US has reportedly told officials with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in private that issuing arrest orders for top Israeli government and military officials would be a mistake.
“We are quietly encouraging the ICC no to do it. It will blow up everything,” US outlet Axios reports, citing unnamed US officials.
It said Israel believes that the PA has been encouraging the ICC, which is based in The Hague in the Netherlands, to issue arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others, and is therefore ready to retaliate.
The retaliation could come in the form of cutting off the transfer of tax revenues that Israel collects for the Palestinian organisation, which could potentially lead to its collapse.
The ICC needs to issue arrest warrants for Biden and Blinken. Follow the money trail.
‘Transfer of aid allows us to continue the war’: Gallant
Israel’s minister of defence has said that allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza is a means to an end: Allowing Israel to forge ahead with its war on the besieged coastal enclave, and to gain the support of the international community, which has been pushing for more relief to Palestinians.
In a post on X, he said that he met with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Karem Abu Salem [Kerem Shalom] crossing, where “we watched the inspection procedure for the medical aid and food going to civilians in the Gaza Strip”.
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