The US is complicit in genocide. Let’s stop pretending otherwise

[Allan]

Writing for The Guardian Mehdi Hasan presents a case that America isn't an innocent bystander but is in fact wholly complicit in Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people.

Can we finally stop pretending that what we have been witnessing in Gaza over the past 22 months is a “war,” a “conflict,” or even a “humanitarian crisis”? Many of the world’s leading human rights and humanitarian groups – including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Doctors Without Borders – agreed months ago that what is being livestreamed to our phones on a daily basis is indeed a genocide.

The debate over whether or not Gaza is a genocide is, effectively, over. So can we now also stop pretending that we are mere bystanders to this genocide? That our sin is one only of omission rather than commission? Because the inconvenient truth is that the US has not just looked the other way, as tens of thousands of Palestinians have been besieged and bombed, starved and slaughtered, but helped Israel pull the trigger. We have been complicit in this genocide, which is itself a crime under article III of the Genocide convention.

The US is complicit in genocide. Let’s stop pretending otherwise | Mehdi Hasan

The US government, enabled by the media, is an active participant in Israel’s atrocities in Gaza

www.theguardian.com

 

[Gozaburo]

Writing for The Guardian Mehdi Hasan presents a case that America isn't an innocent bystander but is in fact wholly complicit in Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people.

The US is complicit in genocide. Let’s stop pretending otherwise | Mehdi Hasan

The US government, enabled by the media, is an active participant in Israel’s atrocities in Gaza

www.theguardian.com

While I don't disagree that the United States obviously enables Israel to prosecute this war, I feel this kind of critique is very, very surface level, to the point that it almost has the opposite effect of absolving Zionists from their culpability in this crime. "I-it's not me, it's the war party in America!" or something.

That America enables Israel even at its own expense begs the quest of "Why?". That is the deeper, perhaps more uncomfortable question at hand. Keep in mind that in Israeli politics and especially among Zionists, Netanyahu is at worst a center-right moderate and this is helpful in understanding the religious and ethnic zeal that motivates those advocating for ethnic cleansing.

 

[Ishm]

While I don't disagree that the United States obviously enables Israel to prosecute this war, I feel this kind of critique is very, very surface level, to the point that it almost has the opposite effect of absolving Zionists from their culpability in this crime. "I-it's not me, it's the war party in America!" or something.

That America enables Israel even at its own expense begs the quest of "Why?". That is the deeper, perhaps more uncomfortable question at hand. Keep in mind that in Israeli politics and especially among Zionists, Netanyahu is at worst a center-right moderate and this is helpful in understanding the religious and ethnic zeal that motivates those advocating for ethnic cleansing.

Follow the money.

 

[Gozaburo]

Follow the money.

Israel isn't particularly rich and this isn't a war where we're selling a bunch of weapons. What money is there to follow?

 

[Peacenik]

Writing for The Guardian Mehdi Hasan presents a case that America isn't an innocent bystander but is in fact wholly complicit in Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people.

The US is complicit in genocide. Let’s stop pretending otherwise | Mehdi Hasan

The US government, enabled by the media, is an active participant in Israel’s atrocities in Gaza

www.theguardian.com

It's true.

 

[bomberfox]

Writing for The Guardian Mehdi Hasan presents a case that America isn't an innocent bystander but is in fact wholly complicit in Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people.

The US is complicit in genocide. Let’s stop pretending otherwise | Mehdi Hasan

The US government, enabled by the media, is an active participant in Israel’s atrocities in Gaza

www.theguardian.com

I havnt had a chance to find these livestreams yet. Is there an archive?

 

[Tigerace117]

Writing for The Guardian Mehdi Hasan presents a case that America isn't an innocent bystander but is in fact wholly complicit in Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people.

The US is complicit in genocide. Let’s stop pretending otherwise | Mehdi Hasan

The US government, enabled by the media, is an active participant in Israel’s atrocities in Gaza

www.theguardian.com

Oh, the U.S. absolutely is complicit in Israel’s atrocities. Trump and his acolytes are the loudest in cheering them on, but there are plenty of Democrats equally guilty—including Joe Biden himself.

 

[Ishm]

Israel isn't particularly rich and this isn't a war where we're selling a bunch of weapons. What money is there to follow?

The money that flows from Israels supporters to American politicians. That is the main reason why $billions of our tax money ends up in gifts to Israel.

 

[Gozaburo]

The money that flows from Israels supporters to American politicians. That is the main reason why $billions of our tax money ends up in gifts to Israel.

Who are “Israel’s supporters”?

 

[Ishm]

Who are “Israel’s supporters”?

A quick google will give you pages of interesting reading.