US saying it’s not OK for ‘region to interfere in Israel’s genocide’
Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara says that US President Joe Biden encouraged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “go get justice” in Gaza as the US did in Afghanistan.
“At the same time, Biden sent US armadas to Middle East under pretext of not allowing the war to widen,” he said, adding that the warships were “meant to shield Israel’s genocide”, which the president knew was going to take place.
“It was OK for the US, for Israel, to regionalise the war. But for the region to interfere in Israel’s genocide, that’s not OK for the Biden administration,” Bishara said, pointing out that if the conflict drags on, other nations, like Russia, may also indirectly join in.
He said Netanyahu is now calling the shots, telling lame-duck President Biden “to shut up and sit up, and continue in Israel’s footsteps”.
“Once Israel retaliates and then Iran retaliates to that, this could really escalate to a major regional blowup.”
We commit to holding Biden administration accountable for genocide: US legal rights group
The Center for Constitutional Rights has said it remains committed to fighting alongside Palestinians for accountability for the US-sponsored Israeli genocide being perpetrated against Palestinians in Gaza, almost one year since it began.
“While US courts have so far failed in their constitutional responsibility to serve as a check on abusive executive power, we remind all who have chosen to fund and fuel Israel’s relentless, escalating violence, that there is no statute of limitations for genocide, and we will pursue you until justice comes,” the organisation said in a statement.
The group highlighted that in the last year, with full US support, Israel has manufactured a famine, blocked lifesaving humanitarian aid, turned most of Gaza into rubble, bombed countless civilian targets including schools, hospitals, and places of worship, killed more than 41,000 Palestinians – nearly half of whom are children – and injured more than 96,000.
“The Biden administration has provided unconditional and indispensable support for Israel’s genocide, in defiance of the law, universally-recognised international norms, some of its own officials’ recommendations, and the outcry of the vast majority of people in the world, including most Americans.”
Thousands march in Paris in solidarity with Palestinians and Lebanese
A few thousand people are walking across the city [of Paris], showing solidarity with the Palestinian people. They are calling on Israel to stop its war on Gaza, but people are also here for the Lebanese as those attacks on their country by Israel escalate.
There is a very big Lebanese community in France and Lebanon has historic ties here; that’s something we heard from France’s prime minister earlier this week as he addressed the parliament and called for calm.
A lot of people here say they are frustrated that the conflict has been going on for nearly a year and feel that the international community is simply not doing anything. They feel that France isn’t doing enough to protect civilians and the people who are really suffering.
