Blinken said the Biden administration’s policies “were basically supported by an overwhelming majority of Israelis after the trauma of October 7”.
Okay what? Did Biden’s senility infect Blinken too? He knows he’s the secretary of state of America right?
Twelve soldiers were convicted of various charges relating to the incidents, with all of the convictions including the charge of dereliction of duty. Most soldiers only received minor sentences. Three other soldiers were either cleared of charges or were not charged. No one was convicted for the murders of the detainees.
From the Wikipedia article on Abu Gharib. If this counts as prosecution then the IDF also “prosecutes” its war criminals. Where’s the punishment for the systematic rape, torture and murder? These aren’t crimes that should be settled by twelve rank and file soldiers getting a slap on the wrist. By the way, we know about these war crimes because newspapers reported on them and publicized them, and that’s why the US army “prosecuted” them. Your knowledge of US violations of international law seems to be very whitewashed.
While our political elite love to yeet the military all over the world, the rank and file has been largely subject to international laws of war while overseas.
Has it? Because while I could be wrong kidnapping civilians and torturing them in Guantanamo, the more than a few massacres committed by the US army in Iraq and Afghanistan and of course the indiscriminate drone bombings all seem to be blatant violations of international law.
To my knowledge this is basically the same shit deal that Hamas refused a few months (?) back.
Pretty sure Israel refused/sabotaged that one. Israeli offeres notably don’t include a full withdrawal from the Gaza strip.
To be fair I found this.
See this, for example:
In what some Israeli media described as a “tense meeting”, Witkoff delivered his message. The president-elect was emphatic that he wanted a ceasefire-for-hostages deal. Trump wanted the war in Gaza finished. He had other fish to fry.
It seems Trump simply doesn’t care about Gaza and wanted the whole thing done before he had to deal with it.
I mean the CCP isn’t an oligarchy; it’s an old school dictatorship.