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While people were busy applauding the good parts of Biden’s speech on the Hamas massacres, they overlooked this section.
“I just got off the phone with — the third call with Prime Minister Netanyahu. And I told him if the United States experienced what Israel is experiencing, our response would be swift, decisive, and overwhelming. We also discussed how democracies like Israel and the United States are stronger and more secure when we act according to the rule of law. Terrorists purpo- — purposefully target civilians, kill them. We uphold the laws of war — the law of war. It matters. There’s a difference.”
And there was a “more balanced tone”, e.g. less pro-Israel, in private.
US President Joe Biden reportedly urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their Tuesday phone call to minimize civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip as Israel continues its massive aerial campaign and readies for a potential ground incursion in response to Hamas’s terror onslaught.
While Biden offered full-throated support for Israel in a public address Tuesday that was overwhelmingly welcomed by Jerusalem, he apparently struck a relatively more balanced tone in his call with Netanyahu.
Biden was more direct than in prior calls that the IDF should work to avoid civilian casualties, NBC reports, citing two US officials
Having previously utilized Secretary of Defense Austin to pressure Israel not to conduct democratic judicial reform, now Biden is using him to lecture Israel on civilian casualties.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke with his Israeli counterpart on Saturday, underscoring Washington’s support for Israel’s security and discussing the importance of adhering to the law of war, the Pentagon said.
“During the call, he discussed the importance of adhering to the law of war, including civilian protection obligations, and addressing the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza while Israel continues its operations to restore security,” the Pentagon said in a statement.
Is Biden having these same conversations with Ukraine? I see no sign of that. There appears to be zero mention of it when came to cluster bombs. Now frankly, I don’t care how Ukraine fights its wars, but is there a reason that the Biden administration keeps lecturing Israel, but not Ukraine about how it fights wars?
Russia loosely adheres to some laws of war, Hamas does not. It operates behind civilians, there’s no way to fight it that doesn’t involve civilian casualties.
The question is whose civilian casualties will they be.
Every Hamas terrorists is a civilian. Every. Single. One.
…..and although many fools won’t admit it “palestinians” are `Hamas.
(have we ever seen Western people or Israeli people parading dead bodies around and dancing with glee? I don’t think so)
…..and although many fools won’t admit it “palestinians” are Hamas.
(have we ever seen Western people or Israeli people parading dead bodies around and dancing with glee? I don’t think so)
The laws of war are pretty clear. Using civilians as human shields is a war crime. Hamas is the guilty party.
So is deliberately targeting civilians and taking them back to Gaza as hostages. So is embedding military facilities in civilian neighborhoods. But Hamas doesn’t recognize Western rules of war. It follows Islamic rules of war which are wholly what the West would consider uncivilized.
Of course, Terrorists never want those they are attacking to have a fair advantage, they continually lie to undermine their targets. Release the full might of Israel. Eventually God is going to destroy Israel’s enemies in the latter years, its coming. Could be in Isaiah 17, Psalm 83, or Gog-Magog. Ezekiel 38 and 39.
Hamas, as a ruling body, was voted into that position by these militant civilians. There’s a reason Egypt has a below ground and an above ground wall with the Gaza Strip. They completely understand who these people are and they don’t want any. When Gaza was supplied with enough infrastructure to take care of their water needs and decide to dig up the pipes to make mortars and rockets instead, it’s impossible to blame that all on the Hamas government.
I’m with Israeli President Herzog on this, saying that NO ONE in the Gaza Strip, including civilians, is innocent. Those that didn’t agree with Hamas have had many years in which to rise up against them.
I wish Israel didn’t need America in many ways…but support, be it in words, munitions or dollars requires the obligatory lecture from an administration that understands nothing.
“A proper war in self-defense is one fought without self-crippling restrictions placed on our commanders in the field. It must be fought with the most effective weapons we possess (a few weeks ago, Rumsfeld refused, correctly, to rule out nuclear weapons). And it must be fought in a manner that secures victory as quickly as possible and with the fewest U.S. casualties, regardless of the countless innocents caught in the line of fire. These innocents suffer and die because of the action of their own government in sponsoring the initiation of force against America. Their fate, therefore, is their government’s moral responsibility. There is no way for our bullets to be aimed only at evil men.” – Leonard Peikoff, “End States Who Sponsor Terrorism”
Israel needs to rely on God and not America to get through this victoriously.
One might hope that the Biden maladministration would have some level of contrition or humility given its own culpability in these events (e.g., empowering and enriching Iran, undermining Israel and Sunni Arab governments, funding the PA, Hamas, and the UNRWA, etc.) that it would keep its mouth shut. But, alas, it is not to be.
There is only one rule of law every man must observe. Do not lose.
Time to declare Hamas as the enemies of the World