this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2023
1118 points (97.9% liked)

World News

39102 readers
2217 users here now

A community for discussing events around the World

Rules:

Similarly, if you see posts along these lines, do not engage. Report them, block them, and live a happier life than they do. We see too many slapfights that boil down to "Mom! He's bugging me!" and "I'm not touching you!" Going forward, slapfights will result in removed comments and temp bans to cool off.

We ask that the users report any comment or post that violate the rules, to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting. Users that post off-topic spam, advocate violence, have multiple comments or posts removed, weaponize reports or violate the code of conduct will be banned.

All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users.


Lemmy World Partners

News !news@lemmy.world

Politics !politics@lemmy.world

World Politics !globalpolitics@lemmy.world


Recommendations

For Firefox users, there is media bias / propaganda / fact check plugin.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/media-bias-fact-check/

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Almost 90 bombs were dropped in one region in just 24 hours.

Russia unleashed an unprecedented bombardment in southern Ukraine overnight in what local officials described as a “massive attack” in the conflict which has continued to rage even as the international community’s attention has moved to the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

The Ukrainian Internal Affairs Ministry on Monday morning said Russia dropped at least “87 aerial bombs on populated areas of the Kherson region - the largest number for all time.” At least eight people were also injured in other Russian strikes carried out in the Odessa region further to the west on Sunday night.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Motavader@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Genocide Joe? 🙄

And who should voters replace him with, Mr Answers?

[–] hanekam@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Genocide Joe? 🙄

People are really working to rob that word of all meaning

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"We are all domestic terrorists"

That's what they do.

Edit: They even called the congressman who pulled the fire alarm to delay voting so people could read the bill, an insurrectionist.

[–] RichCaffeineFlavor@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Are they? Or do you just not consider Arab people humans? Maybe specifically Palestinians are the bad ones we can exterminate, in your mind?

[–] hanekam@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which Arab nations have Joe Biden exterminated, exactly?

[–] RichCaffeineFlavor@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So if it's not a genocide until you finish the job, you think the Nazis are innocent, I take it?

[–] hanekam@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Which Arab nations are Joe Biden currently exterminating, then?

[–] TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I reject the premise of your comment.

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

neener neener poo poo to you as well

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or do you just not consider Arab people humans?

Its been standing US policy to dehumanize Arab people since at least 2001.

Since the shores of Tripoli

[–] RichCaffeineFlavor@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see downvotes but I see no interaction with the two true assertions that make for this argument. Biden has the immediate power to stop this. And the this is a genocide of Palestinians.

[–] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

And how exactly would he do that? I wasn't aware he was The King of Israel. Should he threaten to nuke them?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2021/05/24/ronald-reagan-wasnt-afraid-to-use-leverage-to-hold-israel-to-task/

In addition to not vetoing UN resolutions, Reagan took several actions that many in Israel and the United States perceived as anti-Israel. For example, on June 7, 1981, less than six months after Reagan took office, Israel launched a surprise bombing raid on the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirak, and, in so doing, violated the airspace of Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Reagan not only supported UNSC Resolution 487, which condemned the attack, but he also criticized the raid publicly and suspended the delivery of advanced F-16 fighter jets to Israel. Moreover, over the strident objections of Israel and the pro-Israel U.S. lobby groups, Reagan approved the sale of advanced reconnaissance aircraft (AWACS ) to Saudi Arabia, which Israel then viewed as a hostile state.

A year later, in August 1982, when Israeli forces advanced beyond southern Lebanon and began shelling the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in Beirut, Reagan responded with an angry call to Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, demanding a halt to the operation.

In addition, during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, Reagan intervened directly when Israel threatened to blow up the Commodore Hotel in downtown Beirut, which housed more than 100 western reporters. As David Ottaway, who was then the Washington Post Middle East correspondent and was in the building, pointed out, the Israeli defense minister did not like the media coverage the invasion was getting and wanted to close down the media center.

Biden, on the other hand, even though he had an hour’s notice, failed to intervene to stop Netanyahu from bombing and collapsing the 12-story building that housed the offices of Al Jazeera and the Associated Press in Gaza during the recent bombing campaign. He also failed to publicly condemn the attack, let alone challenge Israel’s contention that the building sheltered Hamas military intelligence assets, despite AP’s insistence that its staff had no evidence that such assets were or ever had been present.

In addition to allowing the UN resolutions to pass and suspending the F-16 delivery, Reagan also restricted aid and military assistance to Israel to help force its withdrawal of troops from Beirut and central Lebanon.

Therefore, if in the future some members of the Biden administration or Congress want to join the international community in condemning Israel’s behavior, or in conditioning U.S. assistance or arms transfers and face resistance from Republicans, they need only point to the precedents established by President Reagan in the first instance.

[–] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

First of all, fuck Ronald Reagan.

Second, BIDEN IS NOT THE FUCKING PRESIDENT OF ISRAEL.

Repeating the same meaningless thought terminator like a fucking child

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Neither was Reagan. What does it say that Biden's worse on Israel foreign policy than Hollywood's biggest ghoul?

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Maybe

  • check notes

Stop sending billions in bombs to them knowing they're gonna blow up Palestinian kids with them.

[–] RichCaffeineFlavor@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Israel is a client state of the US. Biden could simply threaten to revoke aid and they would immediately stop the bombing. Their defense minister said so outright not long ago.

Liberals tell you they're powerless so they can pretend to be good people who simply have no means to stop the status quo. Don't believe them on either part.

[–] Illuminostro@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're delusional.

Also, fuck Putin.

[–] RichCaffeineFlavor@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does Putin have to do with this, non delusional person?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its just a thing we're expected to say.

Fuck Putin. Fuck Hamas. Fuck Trump.

Its the sound you make when you want to draw a sharp line between Our Glorious Patriots and Their Villainous Terrorists.

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

The Dot World Unlemmy Activities Committee