‘The US government is the guarantor of the axis of Zionist extremism’
Former Israeli government adviser Daniel Levy tells Al Jazeera that the $3.5bn US military finance package for Israel shows the “dishonesty and duplicity of the US administration”.
The US government “has been telling us that the only problem is Hamas” but now it is beginning to acknowledge “deceit” in the fact that Netanyahu does “not want the ceasefire”, Levy said.
He said the US government is showing “humiliating weakness” when it stated that Biden “got really angry” with Netanyahu but then handed him $3.5bn in arms.
“We have to see that it’s not just weakness. It’s also ideological alignment. The US government is the guarantor of the axis of Zionist extremism,” he said. “They may not like some of the details, but this is what they are backing.”
Levy said US support of Israel plays into geopolitical tensions when Washington warns Iran not to arm its proxies but at the same time continues to support Israel and, therefore, contributes to regional instability.
US ‘deeply concerned’ about deadly Israeli strike on Gaza school
The White House has said it was “deeply concerned” about an Israeli air strike on a Gaza City school compound that has killed around 100 people.
This comes after a US Department of State spokesperson announced on Friday that Washington would send an additional $3.5bn to Israel to spend on US-made weapons and military equipment.
President Biden has faced months of public pressure to cut off the supply of weapons to Israel amid its war on Gaza, which has killed more than 39,700 Palestinians since October last year.
Deeply concerned the news came out.
Biden must respond to Israel’s ‘act of state terrorism’: CAIR
The Council on American Islamic Relations says the Israeli attack on the Gaza City school was not only an attack on Palestinians but an attack on their religion – especially as it occurred during dawn prayers.
“If President Biden gives a damn about human life, he will respond to this act of state terrorism by immediately stopping the flow of weapons to the Israeli government and forcing Netanyahu to agree to the ceasefire deal that he keeps sabotaging,” the US-based civil rights group said.
محاولة جمع أشلاء ضحايا مجزرة مدرسة التابعين#حرب_غزة #فيديو pic.twitter.com/uZzq1pwOgb
— الجزيرة فلسطين (@AJA_Palestine) August 10, 2024
Translation: Attempting to collect the remains of the victims of the massacre of the al-Tabin school.
Israeli military ‘falsely claimed’ school bombing victims were Hamas
A Palestinian national and chairman of the Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor says the Israeli military is trying to frame innocent citizens as fighters to justify its latest massacre in Gaza.
Ramy Abdul wrote in a post on X that he and colleagues have identified at least nine Palestinians who were falsely alleged to be members of Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad by the Israeli military.
One of the killed was an imam at the mosque that was bombed, another was a university professor and a third “had a serious dispute with Hamas”, he writes.
Out of over 100 civilians that Israel cold-bloodedly killed, they singled out 19 and falsely claimed they were Hamas members. Four of them were from the Jaabari family, whom I personally know—they never engaged in any political or military activities. Another was an imam, one was… pic.twitter.com/GXAwiVnakC
— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) August 10, 2024
