Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Nothing screams ‘covering up war crimes’ like insisting that there should absolutely not be an independent investigation - Why hasn’t the US called for an investigation into mass graves in Gaza? Arwa Mahdawi in The Guardian

‘The Biden administration, meanwhile, has said it trusts Israel to look into its own affairs.’ Photograph: Hatem Khaled/Reuters

Did you know that the Palestinians are the very first people in the world to ethnically cleanse and mass murder themselves? I know it sounds weird, but – as American and Israeli politicians keep reminding us – these are “savages” that we are talking about here. Normal rules don’t apply, you’ve got to follow the Palestine Rules.

The Palestine Rules dictate you do the following: ignore every international agency if that agency says anything remotely critical about Israel. Certainly don’t listen to international aid agencies like Oxfam when they argue that the government of Israel is “deliberately blocking and/or undermining the international humanitarian response in the Gaza Strip”. Nope, the fact that babies in Gaza are dying of malnutrition is all their fault. The fact that children in Gaza are starving at the fastest rate the world has ever known is nothing to do with Israel, it’s the fault of those pesky Palestinians.

The fact that there are an unprecedented number of child amputees in Gaza is the Palestinians’ fault. Let’s be very clear here: if every single Palestinian had fled the land they were born in back in 1948, when Israel was founded, if they’d just completely renounced their Palestinian identity, none of the horrors currently unfolding in Gaza and the West Bank would be happening. Can’t argue with that logic, can you?  ... READ MORE https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/30/us-investigation-gaza-mass-graves

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