The United States has launched a probe into the war crimes possibly committed by Israel using U.S.-supplied weaponry. This is likely to be a case of “we investigated ourselves and found we did nothing wrong.”
The U.S. has taken a staunch pro-Israel stance throughout the months-long brutal Israeli bombing campaign against Gaza. The rulers of the U.S. are continuing to back Israel even now during the accompanying ground assault. Head tyrant, Joe Biden has been consistent in refusing calls (including within Congress) to impose conditions on U.S.-supplied weaponry used by Israel as well, resulting in what some are calling a genocide of Palestinians.
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The U.S. is investigating several Israeli airstrikes in Gaza that killed dozens of civilians and the possible use by Israel of white phosphorus in Lebanon, as part of a probe by the State Department to determine whether America’s closest ally has misused its bombs and missiles to kill civilians, U.S. officials told The Wall Street Journal.
That the U.S. would begin to look at alleged white phosphorus use in Lebanon comes very late, given that as early as mid-October Human Rights Watch said it verified videos of the internationally banned munition in use by Israeli forces. However, HRW noted at the time white phosphorus could be used “either for marking, signaling, and obscuring or as a weapon to set fires that burn people and objects.”
Israel has rejected the allegations that it is using ‘illegal’ munitions, and the Biden administration has thus far been content with the denials, or else has just shrugged off the reports. This was on display in an October appearance by national security advisor Jake Sullivan on NBC News’ Meet the Press.
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“I have seen the reports of that. The IDF has actually come out and said they were not using phosphorus bombs. I’m not going to sit here… and draw red lines,” Sullivan said at the time. “I was asked this same question at the White House podium a few days ago, and I said, ‘You know, it’s not my job in public to draw red lines.’”
A top Biden administration aide privately admitted failures and "missteps" in the communication of US policy regarding Israel's ongoing war in Gaza. https://t.co/xYvDAF4RUB
— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 12, 2024
According to a report by ZeroHedge, Palestinian sources say the death toll since October has gone past 28,000 Gazans killed, with most of these being civilians, including an estimated 12,300 children and teens, according to the Gaza health ministry. Increasingly European Union officials are also voicing their outrage, and despite most of the West expressing solidarity with Israel’s plight in the wake of the Oct.7 Hamas terror attack which killed over 1,200 Israelis, the tide of public opinion is now turning against Israel (and Biden too).
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