Fetterman denies Gaza genocide, claims it's a "just war"
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Democratic leaders in US House ignore constituents on Palestinian rights as Trump targets activists for those rights.

Democratic Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania continued the Democrats’ piling on against Palestinians this past Sunday.

Fetterman asserted to CNN’s Manu Raju: “There’s no ethnic cleansing. It’s not a genocide. This is a just war.”

Asked by Raju if Israel was using “starvation as a weapon,” he claimed: “No. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. Israel is not deliberately starving people, absolutely.”

He added: “Those conditions are miserable there. And it is hell on earth. Why? Some people blame Israel for that? I blame Hamas and Iran for that thing.”

This continues most Democrats’ failure to recognize the Gaza genocide, even walking back the genocide assertion in the recent case of Congresswoman Katherine Clark, a top leader in the House of Representatives.

    • kahdbrixk@feddit.orgDeutsch
      1·
      3 days ago

      “There’s no ethnic cleansing. It’s not a genocide. This is a just war.”

      It’s even worse when you use the original order of words.

      There is nothing “just” about any war, especially not this one.

      • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip
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        4 days ago

        Figures from a classified Israeli military intelligence database indicate five out of six Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza have been civilians, an extreme rate of slaughter rarely matched in recent decades of warfare.

        As of May, 19 months into the war, Israeli intelligence officials listed 8,900 named fighters from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad as dead or “probably dead”, a joint investigation by the Guardian, the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call has found.

        At that time 53,000 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli attacks, according to health authorities in Gaza, a toll that included combatants and civilians. Fighters named in the Israeli military intelligence database accounted for just 17% of the total, which indicates that 83% of the dead were civilians.

        Source: The Guardian

        • sqgl@sh.itjust.works
          22·
          3 days ago

          Those are minimum numbers of Hamas killed. It is just the ones Israel were able to name.

          How many civilians was Israel able to name?

          Gaza Health Authority are Hamas run. They lied about 500 killed by Israel at Al Ahli hospital early on in the war. The hospital wasn’t even hit, it was in the car park and it was a Palestinian Intifada Jihad rocket.

          • MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip
            1·
            3 days ago

            I went looking and found a source for what I wanted to say. Feel free to provide any kind of source for your claim. Otherwise, it would follow that you aren’t interested in actually discussing, just making accusations.

            • sqgl@sh.itjust.works
              1·
              3 days ago

              You go first, otherwise it would follow that you aren’t interested in actually discussing, just making accusations.

                • sqgl@sh.itjust.works
                  1·
                  2 days ago

                  How many civilians was Israel able to name?

                  The Guardian are not comparing like with like.

                  I was hoping you would come up with evidence that Al Ahli hospital was bombed… by anyone.

                  Here is a video of the Al Ahli aftermath showing only a crater in the car park.

          • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            1·
            3 days ago

            Oh OK, this guy says it so it must be true. Isreal isn’t actually striking hospitals, it’s just a car park and its always Palestinian rockets. Trust me.

            • sqgl@sh.itjust.works
              11·
              3 days ago

              There were no photos of Al Ahli hospital damage. Can you show otherwise?

              There was video of the blast in the car park. I can show you that (taken by a Gazan the morning after).

              The misfiring Palestinian rocket was unintentionally captured in live footage by Al Jazeera.

              I am not talking about other hospitals. Seems you don’t know much about this one though. There is no need to trust me, the evidence is there if you care to look for it.