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submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

The White House on Thursday said it was exploring a series of pauses in the Israel-Hamas conflict to help people safely exit Gaza and allow humanitarian aid to get in, but reiterated its opposition to a full ceasefire.

National security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters that such pauses should be temporary and localized, and insisted they would not stop Israel from defending itself.

"What we're trying to do is explore the idea of as many pauses as might be necessary to continue to get aid out and to continue to work to get people out safely, including hostages," he told reporters at a regular White House briefing.

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[-] xenomor@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If the US helps get people out of Gaza, and Israel eventually blocks their return, then the US has directly participated in ethnic cleansing. I mean, I think we are already culpable in Israel’s multifaceted war crime factory, but this is a remarkable escalation of that policy. I suppose that I’d have more respect for the US if it didn’t try to cloak its support of apartheid and genocide in feel good bullshit rhetoric like “democracy” and “defense” and “humanitarian pause”. In reality Israel is fascist ethnostate, this is a genocide, and we are facilitating ethnic cleansing. The Biden administration is monstrous.

[-] BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

I'm genuinely curious, what course of action here could the US do that you wouldn't criticize? If the US helps citizens evacuate a war zone, you call it ethnic cleansing. If the US instead didn't do this and supported keeping them in Gaza, you'd say America is forcing them to be bombed to death.

I can't help but think that you're fundamentally always going to criticize the US and then find a justification for it afterwards.

[-] xenomor@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How about restraining Israel so they aren’t bombing in such a dangerous manner. How about acting as a mediator to get the hostages released? How about pushing Israel to stop its self destructive and inhuman behavior including: settlements, occupation, apartheid, and actively promoting Hamas. How about not pushing to make arms sales to Israel secret. How about securing public assurances that refugees will be able to return. I don’t understand why these things are so exotic and difficult to imagine for so many people.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

I fully support the US trying to initiate peace talks and take a hard-line stance of anyone breaking the peace. The fuckers who attacked folks partying in the desert absolutely instigated a terrible conflict... yes there are historical grievances but we had like a decade and a half of relative stability even while Bibi was encouraging illegal settlements. That, however, does not earn a response of ethnic cleansing.

[-] filister@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Sorry what stability, check the numbers of casualties and injured people on both sides and tell me more about the stability and peace. https://www.ochaopt.org/data/casualties

Not to mention the illegal settlements, displacement, and other methods Israel was oppressing Palestinians. That's far from a recipe for a long standing peace, isn't it?

[-] orvorn@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

Any time the US (or any other major world power) does anything I'm going to question the motive, as it's likely motivated by greed. However, in a hypothetical where I could make the US do whatever I want in this one specific time and place, I would force a regime change in Israel to one that is, at the very least, less bloodthirsty. At the most, one that would initiate a peaceful retreat of Israeli settlers from all native Palestinian land.

Israel is a sovereign nation, initiating a regime change would be a massive overreach of power. The US of the 21st century doesn't do that to it's allies.

[-] orvorn@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The question was - what would you like to see the US government do, hypothetically. I would like us to no longer be allied with a genocidal apartheid colonial nation.

Also, the US has used its military power for regime change a dozen times since 1990, not to mention before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change#1991%E2%80%93present:_Post-Cold_War

[-] Nudding@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 2 points 1 year ago

Call for complete seize fire, get foreigner national out, negotiation for hostage release, initiate peace talk, send peace keeping troop via UN to West Bank, so on and so forth. There's a lot of thing a world leader can do to stop the war, instead he decided to be a yes man for a far right war criminal, sabotage every call for seize fire and keep emphasise on "right to defend" and "condemn hamas" like a broken clock. Do note that his decision help escalate the tension within the region.

[-] BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

get foreigner national out

Actively working on it.

negotiation for hostage release

Actively working on it.

initiate peace talk

Being discussed

send peace keeping troop via UN to West Bank

I'm pretty sure you would call this more western imperialism.

Keep emphasize [...] “condemn hamas”

If you don't think that Hamas should be condemned, that says more about you than it does about Joe Biden.

It's 'ceasefire', by the way.

[-] TheDankHold@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

No the Israeli settlers stealing land in the West Bank is already western imperialism. What they’re suggesting is sending people to stop the imperialism.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 3 points 1 year ago

get foreigner national out: Actively working on it.

would be better if there's a ceasefire.

negotiation for hostage release: Actively working on it.

would be better if there's a ceasefire.

initiate peace talk: Being discussed

a discussion on what happened to the ruin of Gaza is not a peace talk.

send peace keeping troop via UN to West Bank: I’m pretty sure you would call this more western imperialism.

Not if it's under UN.

Keep emphasize […] “condemn hamas”: If you don’t think that Hamas should be condemned, that says more about you than it does about Joe Biden.

No where did i say Hamas should not be condemned, only that "condemning hamas" should not take precedence over ceasefire.

It’s ‘ceasefire’, by the way.

noted.

[-] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe just stay the fuck out of it and worry about the shitheap of problems we've got domestically

[-] noride@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

"doing nothing" is still tacit support for genocide, bud.

[-] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

Ahh, and your solution?

[-] BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Say hi to Neville Chamberlain to me when you next see him.

I agree with everything you said.

And simultaneously, I’m thinking about how that’s going to be used as a bullet point for GOP activists to push their campaign next year, and there’s a decent chance it’ll be Trump. If Trump was still calling the shots, he’d be screaming at his generals to send half of our B-52s to carpet-bomb Gaza into dust.

I hate that we are forced to choose between “participating in ethnic cleaning” and “enthusiastically participating in ethnic cleansing” for our national leadership.

[-] assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

There's three options for people.

  1. Actively vote for helping with ethnic cleansing

  2. Actively vote for even worse ethnic cleansing

  3. Actively do something else, with the end result being either ethnic cleansing or worse ethnic cleansing

There's really nothing else we can do for the elections.

[-] erranto@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

Out to where ? mass displacement of population is called ethnic cleansing. mass murder of innocent lives is called collective punishment and genocide. I bet the US has a long track record of doing both but they only dare using those terminology with enemy states.

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I think mass displacement is better than murder though. If it's infeasible to get Israel to hold off attacks, I would think that would be the lesser of two evils.

[-] snowe@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

We could easily get Israel to hold off on attacks. It would start with not funding them.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 5 points 1 year ago

Mass displacement is what Netanyahu and his far right political member want, agree to that is playing into his greasy pig hand.

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I think he'd also be okay with killing them, which is worse.

[-] erranto@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I think mass displacement is better than murder though. If it’s infeasible to get Israel to hold off attacks

Is murder a biological need of Israelis to not be able to hold off ?

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 year ago

I'm saying people not in charge of Israel. Even citizens of Israel (which I'm guessing most of us are not) have limited say in the matter.

[-] livus@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

to help people safely exit Gaza

But there is no exit they are permitted to use. This is the worst kind of gaslighting.

[-] PugJesus@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure it's implied that there would be a usable exit in this theoretical, never-happening pause. The fact that they specify getting hostages out implies that.

[-] livus@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

@PugJesus presumably they want to bring the hostages into Israel. They certainly don't want to bring the Palestinians into Israel.

[-] jimbolauski@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

This is 100% a political statement and nothing more. The 'pause' will only work if both sides pause. Both sides have nothing but hate for each other they won't pause, innocent lives are much less important than getting their enemies.

[-] brihuang95@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

"hey guys, can you stop fighting for a few days?? Mkay thanks!"

[-] AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

A humanitarian pause... you mean like the UN resolution calling for a temporary ceasefire that the US vetoed?

[-] febra@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I sure hope those civillians will be allowed to return to their homes after this thing is over

What homes? They've been bombed into oblivion

[-] febra@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Well, I sure hope they'll be allowed to return to whatever they have and that Israel and their allies will provide Palestine with an equivalent of the Marshall plan to help them get their lives back.

[-] Maalus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

And I hope a magical unicorn will whisk me away into the land of bliss.

Nothing will happen. The entire city is ruined. Israel hasn't let building materials through the blockade - no concrete, no wood. Why would they flip 180 degrees and do something else?

[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

The Israel plan is to move them to a new open air prison in Egypt and/or spread the rest to Greece, Spain, Canada

[-] febra@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Forceful displacement is a flagrant violation of international law. So "moving them" shouldn't be an option. They have the right to their own land.

[-] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] febra@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

So they're planning a second mass illegal displacement of civillians now?

[-] filister@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Homes, what homes? After Israel is done there would be nothing left but destroyed buildings and civilian infrastructure.

[-] SirToxicAvenger@lemm.ee -3 points 1 year ago

wont happen. once the city is razed to the ground then non-citizens will be deported.

[-] zik@zorg.social 7 points 1 year ago

But they don't want anyone to get out.

[-] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I think Israel wants to get everyone out of the gaza strip eventually.

[-] gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

National security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters that such pauses should be temporary and localized, and insisted they would not stop Israel from defending itself.

So, after Israel repeatedly telling Palestinians to evacuate to places Israel turned around and bombed anyway, how exactly do they think this is going to work?

[-] autotldr 3 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


WASHINGTON, Nov 2 (Reuters) - The White House on Thursday said it was exploring a series of pauses in the Israel-Hamas conflict to help people safely exit Gaza and allow humanitarian aid to get in, but reiterated its opposition to a full ceasefire.

National security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters that such pauses should be temporary and localized, and insisted they would not stop Israel from defending itself.

President Joe Biden spoke on Wednesday about the need for a pause to provide time for the release of hostages held by Hamas, but has ruled out calling for a full ceasefire.

United Nations experts are also urging a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, saying time is running out for Palestinian people there who find themselves at "grave risk of genocide."

Nearly four weeks of Israeli bombardment against the Gaza Strip in retaliation for deadly attacks by Hamas gunmen in southern Israel on Oct. 7 have killed at least 9,061 people, made up of a majority of women and children, health authorities in the Hamas-run enclave say.

Asked if the United States bore responsibility for civilian deaths if it was providing such weapons, Kirby insisted that Washington was not "making the targeting decisions."


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[-] CeruleanRuin 3 points 1 year ago

How about pausing it indefinitely and getting the leaders out to a warcrimes tribunal.

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