THIS is how war is conducted:
Posted on 05/08/2024 4:11:39 PM PDT by Mariner
WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing heat over its military support for Israel's war, the Biden administration is due to deliver a first-of-its-kind formal verdict this week on whether the airstrikes on Gaza and restrictions on delivery of aid have violated international and U.S. laws designed to spare civilians from the worst horrors of war.
A decision against close ally Israel would add to pressure on President Joe Biden to curb the flow of weapons and money to Israel's military. The Democratic administration took one of the first steps in that direction in recent days, when it paused a shipment of 3,500 bombs out of concern over Israel's threatened offensive on Rafah, a southern city crowded with more than a million Palestinians, a senior administration official said.
The administration agreed in February at the insistence of Democrats in Congress to a negotiated agreement mandating it look at whether Israeli forces in Gaza have used U.S.-provided weapons and other military assistance in a lawful manner.
Additionally, under the agreement, it must tell Congress whether it deems that Israel has acted to “arbitrarily deny, restrict, or otherwise impede, directly or indirectly,” delivery of any U.S.-supported humanitarian aid into Gaza for starving civilians there.
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Just ran across this - I know it’s not the topic of the thread but I’m astounded...shouldn’t be surprised but I am..This man doesn’t know whether he’s afoot or horseback which was my late husband’s comment on situations such as this - the cleanest comment I can repeat...
Biden is with Israel 100% UNLESS????????
Did hamas????????
Did IRAN?
LOL!! My father used to say about people like Biden, that "they didn't know whether their a$$ was bored or punched."
Please cite for us exactly which laws are being broken.
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What "U.S laws" do we have about the conduct of international wars? I know we have treaties that constitutionally are also supreme law of the land, but do we have any "U.S. laws" that can be held against any foreign sovereign governments?
I don't know, so if someone can cite U.S. code, I'd be grateful...
-PJ
Inter armes leges silent.
Note to Elizabeth Knickers, whoever the hell she is: there is no such thing as laws of the war.
THIS is how war is conducted:
Israel’s Gaza counterattack has achieved the historical LOWEST civilian casualty rate of any urban war in history.
And *resident bidet is going to second guess that historic success.
Nuts.
Men do have a way with words, don’t they? Today women do too!!!
This is pure shi’ite from the Jobama junta!
That Law of Abraham? Without a doubt.
“Who do these idiots in DC think they are to dictate to another sovereign nation what “rules” are in war?”
money talks
Israel is a welfare state
“you take our money, it comes with strings”
I watched a couple video documentaries on U.S. atrocities in My Lai, Vietnam. As bad as what Hamas did in Israeli kibbutzes on October 7th. Massacred an entire village of mostly women, children and a few old men. Soldiers gathering women and kids and then shooting them dead. Was that a lawful operation? A couple hundred civilians and no combatants (they accused 2 dead of being the enemy). The U.S. government swept it under the rug despite worldwide disgust, and resulted in only one officer being convicted but pardoned after a short time.
Biden should not criticize Israel and their operations to go after Hamas.
“Laws”
40,000 Palestinians dead is not a “historically low” civilian body count.
Can you cite the statutes?
Yea, I thought not.
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Hamas LIES.
They were caught in the lie.
It was not 30,000 civilian deaths, it was almost 5,000.
The rest were Hamas.
WHAT LAW?
Israel is a sovereign state, no matter what the Nazis and Commies pulling Biden’s control levers may wish
and besides, no nation on earth has, is doing nearly as much for enemy populations during hostilities than Israel is doing
not one country, certainly not USA
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