History will not forgive our complicity. The time is long overdue for us to end our support for Netanyahu’s destruction of the Palestinian people.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29824159

Bernie Sanders May 08, 2025

[based on speech given to US Senate]

"Thursday marks 68 days and counting since ANY humanitarian aid was allowed into Gaza. For more than nine weeks, Israel has blocked all supplies: no food, no water, no medicine, and no fuel.

Hundreds of truckloads of lifesaving supplies are waiting to enter Gaza, sitting just across the border, but are denied entry by Israeli authorities.

… Defense Minister Israel Katz said, “Israel’s policy is clear: No humanitarian aid will enter Gaza, and blocking this aid is one of the main pressure levers.” "

  • blakenong@lemmings.worldEnglish
    15·
    21 hours ago

    I don’t want them to look away. I want them to see the bigger picture. Israel will get weapons regardless of the US. The entire world is attacking the Muslims. But you don’t want to talk about that. You just want to focus on the US, because you’re American and can’t think about anything else.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      21 hours ago

      Israel will get weapons regardless of the US.

      Congratulations. I don’t want my country to be actively supplying a genocide anymore. You want lookoverthere!

      • blakenong@lemmings.worldEnglish
        15·
        21 hours ago

        You don’t care about Gaza or genocide, you just don’t want to have a hand in it. Other than that, not your problem. So American.

        • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
          6·
          21 hours ago

          You don’t care about Gaza or genocide, you just don’t want to have a hand in it.

          I mean, other countries are sovereign and I’m only a citizen of this one. I have even less influence over other countries than I do here. And no, unlike you, I don’t want to have a hand in genocide. I get that you don’t like that because that’s just all you are.

          • blakenong@lemmings.worldEnglish
            15·
            20 hours ago

            I can tell when I’ve won a conversation by how many words a person tries to put into my mouth.

            I do not want manufacturing or selling of weapons.

            I do not want a Muslim genocide.

            Feel free to not listen to what other people say, like a typical American.

            • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world
              5·
              16 hours ago

              I can tell when I’ve won a conversation by how many words a person tries to put into my mouth.

              ROFLMAO. You did exactly that for me. Look mates, I “won” a conversation! What kind of numpty tries to win conversations? An absolute broomstick, this one.

                • StupidBrotherInLaw@lemmy.world
                  31·
                  16 hours ago

                  You (in response to another Lemming): I point at a cow and you say it’s a duck. Have a lovely day.

                  Me (1st comment here): More like you pointed in a random direction without clearly stating what you’re doing then grew upset when someone asked you what you’re about.

                  You (fabricating my alleged disagreement, i.e., “putting words in my mouth”): You can read it like that because you just disagree with my opinion. But if it makes you feel better I don’t care about yours.

                  Check and mate. As the “winner” of this conversation, I await my crown.

                  • blakenong@lemmings.worldEnglish
                    11·
                    15 hours ago

                    You said I did that to you. I’m waiting for that quote.

                    Or… are you saying you agree with me?

            • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
              6·
              20 hours ago

              I do not want manufacturing or selling of weapons.

              You keep trying to distract from a country that is selling weapons to netanyahu for genocide. In a thread about that country’s complicity. Declare victory some more.

              • blakenong@lemmings.worldEnglish
                15·
                20 hours ago

                I’m literally saying I don’t want the manufacturing or selling of weapons.

                And yet somehow you think I am ok with the manufacturing and selling of weapons.

                Cow, duck.

                • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  6·
                  20 hours ago

                  I’m literally saying I don’t want the manufacturing or selling of weapons.

                  By whom? For whom? Let’s see if you can even admit that netanyahu is committing genocide.

                  • blakenong@lemmings.worldEnglish
                    14·
                    20 hours ago

                    The US should not be manufacturing and selling weapons. Especially to Israel, given that they are using them for genocide.

                    Germany, UK, India, still sell Israel weapons and are complicit in genocide.

                    India has recently escalated their attacks on Pakistan, who is like 95% Muslim. As you mentioned, China is also participating in a global Muslim genocide.

                    Do you recognize the global genocide of Muslims?