Posted on 05/17/2021 8:58:13 AM PDT by Hojczyk
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says he has not seen any Israeli evidence of Hamas operating in Gaza office building hit by airstrike over the weekend. Blinken says he has asked Israel for justification for the strike.
Blinken spoke at a news conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, as pressure is increasing on the Biden administration to ask for a ceasefire in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Israel destroyed a building housing The Associated Press and other military, and claimed that Hamas used the building for a military intelligence office.
That contradicts a Jerusalem Post report over the weekend. It also defies common sense, although there may not be a contradiction here. As Allahpundit mentioned, it’s highly unlikely that the IDF would have chosen to hit that building housing global media outlets unless they knew it was a major Hamas asset. There would have been zero upside otherwise, not even in the accusation that the IDF just wanted to stop reporting on the war from the Gaza side. It wouldn’t accomplish that even if the IDF wanted it stopped, and it would only inflame world opinion — even if Hamas’ use had turned it into a legit military target. (As we are already seeing.)
Knowing that the Associated Press had its offices in the building, it would have been unthinkable to not brief the US on the targeting. There wasn’t a need for secrecy; they gave the building occupants a one-hour head start to clear the building.
The Israelis would have made sure that the White House knew about the intel before the attack, if for no other reason than to embarrass their most important ally. And if they hadn’t briefed the US, does anyone believe that Joe Biden and his team would have remained quiet for this long?
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Tell him when you show us proof you have a brain
The secondary explosions under the building is clue enough to anyone with brain
Fortunately, the evidence was destroyed in the air strike.
But they are very good at fixing elections.
AP has already admitted it was operating out of the Hamas building.
Why in hell would Blinkin be so ignorant ? Snd why would he even question the matter to begin with? It’ was a totally fair target anyway and he knows it (his IQ is, I thought anyway, above single digits)
He only embarrasses himself and USA in the process
( If you’re can’t trust AP, who can you trust? /s)
“BTW. I have been called antisemitic for saying that.”
So have I...and probably everyone else who expressed the same truism.
Hopefully Netanyahu will tell him to pound salt up his a$$.
Tell him to ask Iran. John Kerry probably already gave it to them.
Liberals claim Hamas is not a terrorist organization, so why bother trying to appease them?
Roof Knocking
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roof_knocking
Roof knocking (Hebrew: הקש בגג)[1] or “knocks on the roof” is a term used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to describe its practice of dropping non-explosive or low-yield devices on the roofs of targeted civilian homes
Hey idiot Blinken.....it’s a war.....buildings fall.
PS: Don’t share anything with the Blinken crew that you wouldn’t hand to Iran and Syria
PPS: Remind Blinken what Saddam Hussein had in the basement of the Baghdad Hotel, where all the foreign press stayed while covering DESERT STORM. It’s not like this is the first rodeo they’ve played using human shields to protect militants from targeting
That should be Biden asking that question....not Blinken.
President Biden, does the US government try to keep track of potential terrorists?
Don’t be silly, of course we do!
Prime Minister Netanyahu, does the Israeli government try to keep track of potential terrorists?
Don’t be silly, of course we do!
AP torched for claiming they were unaware of Hamas intel operation in their building: ‘Difficult to believe’
foxnews.com ^ | 5/17/2021 | Yael Halon
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3959985/posts
A 2014 Atlantic report claimed Hamas fighters regularly ‘burst into the AP’s Gaza bureau and threaten the staff—and the AP wouldn’t report it’
“multiple governments, not just our own, can tap into a vast data trove to predict our behavior and target....”
https://www.wired.com/story/darpa-total-informatio-awareness/
Israel almost surely pays big buck$ to Facebook and Google.
Blinkens a Biden/Obama/Clinton yes man....he’s been entrenched with these bimbo’s for decades....gets gov. kick back contracts with his business WestExec/Pine Island financial.
Blinken was deputy sec. of state from 2015 to 2017 under Barack Obama....he helped craft U.S. policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran.....During the Clinton administration, Blinken served in the State Department and was Joe Bidens advisor unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign. So he’s in neck deep with them all.
See? The AP is military, associated with all "the others".
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