CARTOON / Democrats Boldly Respond To Biden's Bloody Gaza War Crimes!
The banality of the chronically banal.
Cartoon & photo by Mark Taylor / DeMOCKracy.ink
OBVIOUS QUESTION: Should Biden Be Tried For Genocide Crimes? (YES!)
The Real News Network
The Chris Hedges Report (3/22/24
Israel has killed more than 30,000 Palestinians over the past 5 months of its genocide in Gaza, including more than 13,000 children. [Those are the known victims. How many children and families have been buried beneath the mountains of rubble of bombed apartment buildings, schools, hospitals and refugee centers or vaporized at the moment of impact of 2,000-pound bombs? The true number of those killed by the US and Israel will never be known, but one thing is certain, it will be many, many times greater than official numbers. — Ed.]
The Israeli bombing campaign has wiped hospitals, universities, primary schools and other critical infrastructure off the map, not even sparing tent cities in Rafah where over a million displaced people have fled to.
Shoulder-to-shoulder with brutality & genocide
Through it all, the Biden administration has stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Israel, supplying the funds and arms required for Israel's extermination campaign to continue. As international legal action against Israel and its allies mounts, the question has arisen of whether and how the US and its leaders ought to be brought to justice. A recently appealed lawsuit from the Center for Constitutional Rights, filed on behalf of Palestinian human rights organization Defense for Children Palestine, sought to do just that.
Plaintiff Ayman Nijim and CCR Senior Staff Attorney Katherine Gallagher join The Chris Hedges Report to discuss their recent lawsuit and the possibility of a genocide crimes case against President Biden.
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ENDORSED & FUNDED BY DEMS: 'Horrifying' Footage Shows IDF Killing Two Gazans, Then Burying Their Bodies With A Bulldozer
"When the Israeli army can do these things and get away with it, it can only then do more of it knowing that it will not meet any punishment.”
A screengrab from video footage broadcast by Al Jazeera shows Israeli forces burying the bodies of two Palestinians with a bulldozer. (Photo: Al Jazeera)
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has documented numerous examples of Israeli soldiers conducting close-range field executions in Gaza since October 7, when Israel launched its latest assault following a Hamas-led attack.
By Jake Johnson
Common Dreams (3/28/24)
Video footage broadcast Wednesday by Al Jazeera shows Israeli soldiers gunning down two Palestinians on the coast of northern Gaza, even as one of them waves what appears to be a piece of white fabric.
The footage shows one of the men walking in the direction of an Israeli military vehicle with both hands raised. Despite the absence of any clear evidence that the man posed a threat, Israeli forces shot him from a short distance away. Another man is seen on the ground not far behind.
Al Jazeera's Tareq Abu Azzoum said the killings took place near where World Central Kitchen recently dropped off food aid.
The video then shows Israeli soldiers burying the bodies with a bulldozer.
"Probably certain words should be invented for this sort of thing," Marwan Bishara, AI Jazeera's chief political analyst, said in response to the footage. "I am not sure we have the sufficient vocabulary to describe this sort of twilight zone of Israel's fantasy of being the world's most moral army."
"It's a fantasy that meets the reality of a genocide," Bishara added. "An attempt to kill or destroy much of Palestine and Palestinians and hide the evidence and lie about it. When the Israeli army can do these things and get away with it, it can only then do more of it knowing that it will not meet any punishment."
Photo by Mark Taylor / DeMOCKracy.ink
Richard Falk, former United Nations special rapporteur on the human rights situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, toldAl Jazeera that the footage provides "vivid confirmation of continuing Israeli atrocities" and spotlights the "unambiguous character of Israeli atrocities that are being carried out on a daily basis."
A shameful moment
"The eyes and ears of the world have been assaulted in real-time by this form of genocidal behavior," said Falk. "It is a shocking reality that there has been no adverse reaction from the liberal democracies in the West. It is a shameful moment."
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, whose board Falk chairs, has documented numerous examples of Israeli soldiers conducting close-range field executions in Gaza since October 7, when Israel launched its latest assault following a Hamas-led attack.
In less than six months, Israeli forces have killed more than 32,500 people in Gaza and sparked one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes in modern history.
The video footage emerged just days after the United Nations Security Council approved a resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in Gaza. The U.S., Israel's leading arms supplier, abstained from the vote and falsely claimed the measure was "nonbinding."
The Israeli government, for its part, immediately signaled that it would disregard the resolution, just as it has ignored orders from the International Court of Justice.
Sophie McNeill, a human rights campaigner, called the footage released Wednesday "horrifying" and demanded that the International Criminal Court "urgently prioritize investigating and charging all those carrying out war crimes in Gaza."
"There just so happened to be a camera here in this moment. What are we not seeing?" McNeill asked. "This impunity must end."
CELEBRATING GENOCIDE: “We’re Number One, Baby!”
Biden campaign raises $25 million ‘money bomb’ at event with Obama and Clinton
By Martin Pengelley
The Guardian (3/28/24)
Joe Biden and his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama, headlined a star-studded fundraiser with Bill Clinton on Thursday that organizers said raised more than $25m for the US president’s re-election campaign.…
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Excellent cartoon. I might borrow it for my next post. Biden is "da bomb" all right. (How I wish one would drop on him and put us all out of our misery.)
I saw the video of the protest in front of that Biden fundraiser. I was very proud of those protesters. I hope they took photos of all the people who attended it and donated to Genocide Joe. We should continue to protest them at their places of business and in front of their homes. Down with genocide enablers!
We need to move on from this headline figure of 30,000 genocide and exterminated defenceless Palestinians. It is clear the ultra apartheid regime has killed double that! For God’s sake they are still killing in earnest!!