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SvennoJ on 27 May 2024
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Netanyahu’s ‘reckless pursuit’ of Hamas caused deaths of innocents: US lawmaker

Citing the attack on the tent camp in Rafah, which killed 45 people, US Congressman Eric Swalwell says, “The same tactics by the same leaders will only produce same or worse results”.

“Netanayhu’s [sic] reckless prosecution of Hamas has killed Israeli hostages, aid workers, and innocent Palestinians. And nothing changes,” the Democratic Party lawmaker said in a post on X.

Democratic US President Joe Biden has publicly opposed Israel’s offensive in Rafah, and his administration suspended one shipment of weapons to Israel over its concerns.

Yet, despite saying in early May that he would withhold more weapons if the country went ahead with a large-scale operation in Rafah, Biden has largely backed away from using such leverage even as Israeli leaders rejected Washington’s warnings.



How many more 'tragic mistakes' before Biden grows a pair. Genocide Joe, butcher of children.

US lawmaker Ocasio-Cortez calls Rafah strike an ‘indefensible atrocity’

Prominent Democratic party lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has called an Israeli strike that killed at least 45 people in Rafah “an indefensible atrocity”.

She added in a post on X that the strike on the city in southern Gaza was carried out in “open defiance” of the White House and the International Court of Justice. “It is long past time for the President to live up to his word and suspend military aid,” she said.




Rafah camp attack shows US has no ‘red line’ for Israel’s slaughter in Gaza

Mouin Rabbani, a non-resident fellow at the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies in Doha, Qatar, said that in contrast to previous attacks by Israeli forces on Palestinian civilians, Isreal claims now that it is investigating the Rafah camp attack that killed 45 people.

“Quite clearly, what’s called the ‘diplomatic tsunami’ – the recent ruling by the International Court of Justice, the International Criminal Court’s applications for arrest warrants, and so on – are gradually beginning to have an effect,” Rabbani told Al Jazeera.

“At the same time, when we look at the broader international situation, what we’ve learned is that US President Joe Biden’s “red line” [in Gaza] is actually a river of Palestinian blood. And senior US officials are quite happy to swim in it,” Rabbani said.

“As far as the Europeans are concerned, we’ve seen quite extensive condemnation of this attack,” he said. “But eight months into this brutal, genocidal campaign, I think simply making statements becomes entirely meaningless when this is not paired with concrete actions to bring such acts – that are taking place on an almost daily basis – to a definitive end,” he added.

“I think one objective of this attack was to demonstrate that the US actually does not have a red line.”