Good! Such a lawsuit is well-deserved! I certainly hope they win, although in this (in)justice system, it has become increasingly difficult for anyone but the rich, powerful, well-connected people to win cases like this.
I think some interesting analyses could be made about what the facial expressions & body language of Blinken & Netanyahu show in the photograph. My sense is that Blinken knows he's on the wrong side & doesn't feel comfortable about it. He has probably been put in a very difficult position, from which he feels he can't stray. He'd resign if he had the integrity & fortitude to do so.
I am absolutely disgusted in how Biden handled this and horrified at how Trump will finish it. Can’t we be prosecuted by NATO or some other international organization? We are absolute monsters and it makes me so sad.
Thank you for this excellent article. And especially for giving clear calls to action! Plenty of prominent independent journalists are talking about the problem without telling us how we can help solve it. That's demoralizing and I'm grateful to you for rejecting that kind of hopeless doomspeaking.
I am not shy about saying that 100 honest and candid Americans, selected from many walks of life and age groups, could constitute humane foreign relations parameters and humane and desirable policies for foreign relations than Sec Blinken has overseen the making and use of.
If we did that 100 times over we'd end up with even a few really humane and alternatively applicable policy alternatives and policy use format.
Why do we have, over and over, to be 'litigious' in these matters? Why has US policy ignored Palestinians for so long and with very human and real tragic consequences?
The forced myth of nation or of enduring national identity and national existence is a, but only one, root cause of domestic and foreign human tragedy.
In beginning to think and act in terms, as yet not clearly defined and understood, let alone efficaciously applied, of human civil rights and responsibilities, we have the opportunity to together sincerely constitute a humanist self-understanding of being human. To even begin it is the work of a generation, and to continue to expand the shared constitution around the world is a task of more than one generation. We need to have confidence in our capacity to do it and do it effectively, and by doing it well and together to effect a needed change in government to a united peoples governance system.
The State Department cannot do this for us. We must hand the finished but amendable [by us improvable and amendable] product to this and the other departments and persons in official government.
In over three generations, the US Department of State has done not more than rubber stamp traditions of imperial rule and abuse of ordinary people and their lives. A glimmer of humane purpose was a part of the reconstruction efforts under the Marshall Plan in Europe and the recovery of Japan after the Second World War. In both, vast and incomprehensible human suffering proceeded a genuine if limited effort to heal people whose societies lay in utter ruin and whose lives bordered on incurable despair. Both efforts provided some time and resources for beginning applying humane views to social reconstruction and to learn from lessons of history.
We and other people of the world need to accept that it is our challenge as human beings to figure out who each of us is in a world of many of us if we hope to cooperate, to live mutually respectful and respected lives, and to share, sustain, and revitalize the limited living resources the human world is now all eying at once.
I have contacted my Representative hundreds of times concerning Gaza. He doesn't even acknowledge my emails. He has voted in favor of every single shipment of arms to Israel.
The killing fields. The purge isn’t any different than the purge against the Jews in Nazi Germany. Bibi is a fascist and I read many years ago that the goal was to reclaim Palestine and take it over. So many beings who think they are gods on earth who dispense mindless acts of atrocities and they continue to live unfettered by the world around them. Also you are one of the few people I read. Much respect for you.
Thanks, Raven - I'm doing my best. Even now as Netanyahu bombs yet another hospital, I'm reminded of the UN report over the summer affirming that zero evidence exists of Hamas in any of the 110 hospitals or medical centers Netanyahu has bombed.
Thank you, Qasim, for this, another, factual and much-needed observation.
The Palestinian families are completely factually and politically justified in this action to sue the US Dept of State and of pointing specifically to the agency of Sec of State Blinken.
As horribly sad and tragic as the events in Gaza and the territories have been for so many, many decades, the US Dept of State has pursued a policy devoid of human concern for Palestinians.
For an eyewitness account of the situation, there is no better voice than Ta-Nehisi Coates in his latest book “The Message”. Chapter 4 addresses this extensively in devastating detail.
Yep. Have it on my shelf. Read it in detail. I'm publishing my own eye witness accounts too. Have published Part 1 and Part 2 here so far. Will be publishing Part 3 soon.
As much as I hope this goes to trial, I have about as much confidence that it will as I do that Bibi will ever face the ICC. And for all of Trump's bluster about "ending wars on Day 1," it's clear (to me at least) that the rabid support for Israel on the far-right and among the nationalist "Christians" will continue to inform our international politics and ensure we keep funding war crimes, while the distaste for Zelenskyy because he didn't get the requisite dirt on Hunter and Trump's weird Putin worship means we'll let Russia do whatever it wants.
(Trump's confirmation that neither Haley nor Pompeo will get a seat at Trump's table is further evidence of the approach to Ukraine, and Trump's recent suggestion that he'd give freer reign to Netanyahu indicates he's all for the genocide continuing until Palestinians are all but wiped out from the face of the earth.)
Meanwhile, as the war rages on, we're helping recruit a future Hamas (or other anti-west terror group) by allowing these atrocities to continue. After all, wouldn't Americans want to wipe out anyone who funded or participated in the eradication of our citizens, schools, and hospitals? Who allowed preventable disease and famine to spread?
And Qasim is absolutely right about Biden's approach costing the dems big in the election, though I'm still not sure that a different policy approach would've made a difference when misogyny is so entrenched in our culture that a large swath of women actually believe that women shouldn't have leadership roles. 52% of white women voted for an adjudicated sex offender and fraud over a competent Black/Indian woman—if that's not evidence of entrenched misogyny, I don't know WTF is.
I think it important to make a distinction between zionist jews and non-zionist, which is a majority worldwide. Israel is their home. Blinken is a zionist. He has a flawed pedigree when it comes to Palestine. We are supporting the zionists and their murderous, genocidal thuggery. We should not. Perhaps, we should look to Ireland for some moral leadership here. But we should support all those who seek to live in peace in Palestine.
Good! Such a lawsuit is well-deserved! I certainly hope they win, although in this (in)justice system, it has become increasingly difficult for anyone but the rich, powerful, well-connected people to win cases like this.
I think some interesting analyses could be made about what the facial expressions & body language of Blinken & Netanyahu show in the photograph. My sense is that Blinken knows he's on the wrong side & doesn't feel comfortable about it. He has probably been put in a very difficult position, from which he feels he can't stray. He'd resign if he had the integrity & fortitude to do so.
I am absolutely disgusted in how Biden handled this and horrified at how Trump will finish it. Can’t we be prosecuted by NATO or some other international organization? We are absolute monsters and it makes me so sad.
Thank you for this excellent article. And especially for giving clear calls to action! Plenty of prominent independent journalists are talking about the problem without telling us how we can help solve it. That's demoralizing and I'm grateful to you for rejecting that kind of hopeless doomspeaking.
I always do my best to include some call to action. We need mass movement of people to act, and everyone should use their voice.
an addendum to my above [or is it below] comment:
I am not shy about saying that 100 honest and candid Americans, selected from many walks of life and age groups, could constitute humane foreign relations parameters and humane and desirable policies for foreign relations than Sec Blinken has overseen the making and use of.
If we did that 100 times over we'd end up with even a few really humane and alternatively applicable policy alternatives and policy use format.
Why do we have, over and over, to be 'litigious' in these matters? Why has US policy ignored Palestinians for so long and with very human and real tragic consequences?
The forced myth of nation or of enduring national identity and national existence is a, but only one, root cause of domestic and foreign human tragedy.
In beginning to think and act in terms, as yet not clearly defined and understood, let alone efficaciously applied, of human civil rights and responsibilities, we have the opportunity to together sincerely constitute a humanist self-understanding of being human. To even begin it is the work of a generation, and to continue to expand the shared constitution around the world is a task of more than one generation. We need to have confidence in our capacity to do it and do it effectively, and by doing it well and together to effect a needed change in government to a united peoples governance system.
The State Department cannot do this for us. We must hand the finished but amendable [by us improvable and amendable] product to this and the other departments and persons in official government.
In over three generations, the US Department of State has done not more than rubber stamp traditions of imperial rule and abuse of ordinary people and their lives. A glimmer of humane purpose was a part of the reconstruction efforts under the Marshall Plan in Europe and the recovery of Japan after the Second World War. In both, vast and incomprehensible human suffering proceeded a genuine if limited effort to heal people whose societies lay in utter ruin and whose lives bordered on incurable despair. Both efforts provided some time and resources for beginning applying humane views to social reconstruction and to learn from lessons of history.
We and other people of the world need to accept that it is our challenge as human beings to figure out who each of us is in a world of many of us if we hope to cooperate, to live mutually respectful and respected lives, and to share, sustain, and revitalize the limited living resources the human world is now all eying at once.
I have contacted my Representative hundreds of times concerning Gaza. He doesn't even acknowledge my emails. He has voted in favor of every single shipment of arms to Israel.
Thank you for contacting your reps regardless. Never let them sleep without hearing your voice calling out their injustice.
Absolutely.
The killing fields. The purge isn’t any different than the purge against the Jews in Nazi Germany. Bibi is a fascist and I read many years ago that the goal was to reclaim Palestine and take it over. So many beings who think they are gods on earth who dispense mindless acts of atrocities and they continue to live unfettered by the world around them. Also you are one of the few people I read. Much respect for you.
Thanks, Raven - I'm doing my best. Even now as Netanyahu bombs yet another hospital, I'm reminded of the UN report over the summer affirming that zero evidence exists of Hamas in any of the 110 hospitals or medical centers Netanyahu has bombed.
Thank you, Qasim, for this, another, factual and much-needed observation.
The Palestinian families are completely factually and politically justified in this action to sue the US Dept of State and of pointing specifically to the agency of Sec of State Blinken.
As horribly sad and tragic as the events in Gaza and the territories have been for so many, many decades, the US Dept of State has pursued a policy devoid of human concern for Palestinians.
Looks like American news outlets aren't the only ones whitewashing Israel's actions in Gaza: https://open.substack.com/pub/dropsitenews/p/bbc-civil-war-gaza-israel-biased-coverage?r=u2o1n&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
HUZZAH!!! Money only responds to the threat of Taking Money Away!
Ooh! the face on Blinken and the smirk on Netanyahu says it all - The picture worth a thousand words.
I made a comment about it, too. Blinken looks ashamed, as he should be.
For an eyewitness account of the situation, there is no better voice than Ta-Nehisi Coates in his latest book “The Message”. Chapter 4 addresses this extensively in devastating detail.
Yep. Have it on my shelf. Read it in detail. I'm publishing my own eye witness accounts too. Have published Part 1 and Part 2 here so far. Will be publishing Part 3 soon.
That’s because you’re Awesome! 🥳❤️🔥
As much as I hope this goes to trial, I have about as much confidence that it will as I do that Bibi will ever face the ICC. And for all of Trump's bluster about "ending wars on Day 1," it's clear (to me at least) that the rabid support for Israel on the far-right and among the nationalist "Christians" will continue to inform our international politics and ensure we keep funding war crimes, while the distaste for Zelenskyy because he didn't get the requisite dirt on Hunter and Trump's weird Putin worship means we'll let Russia do whatever it wants.
(Trump's confirmation that neither Haley nor Pompeo will get a seat at Trump's table is further evidence of the approach to Ukraine, and Trump's recent suggestion that he'd give freer reign to Netanyahu indicates he's all for the genocide continuing until Palestinians are all but wiped out from the face of the earth.)
Meanwhile, as the war rages on, we're helping recruit a future Hamas (or other anti-west terror group) by allowing these atrocities to continue. After all, wouldn't Americans want to wipe out anyone who funded or participated in the eradication of our citizens, schools, and hospitals? Who allowed preventable disease and famine to spread?
And Qasim is absolutely right about Biden's approach costing the dems big in the election, though I'm still not sure that a different policy approach would've made a difference when misogyny is so entrenched in our culture that a large swath of women actually believe that women shouldn't have leadership roles. 52% of white women voted for an adjudicated sex offender and fraud over a competent Black/Indian woman—if that's not evidence of entrenched misogyny, I don't know WTF is.
I think it important to make a distinction between zionist jews and non-zionist, which is a majority worldwide. Israel is their home. Blinken is a zionist. He has a flawed pedigree when it comes to Palestine. We are supporting the zionists and their murderous, genocidal thuggery. We should not. Perhaps, we should look to Ireland for some moral leadership here. But we should support all those who seek to live in peace in Palestine.
Is there somewhere we can donate to assist with their legal fees?
YES!
That's a great question. I'll see what I can find and post if I find anything.
Wow, I would, too. It's clever.
I think this is an awesome approach, especially for getting the issue out there. I'm looking for the time to read the Complaint.