Posted on 06/23/2024 5:43:45 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie
By sanctioning the Israeli group that blocked aid into Gaza, which documents show Hamas exploits, the Biden administration injures the very concept of liberty and free speech America purports to champion globally.
The planned sanctions by the United States against the Israeli group Tzav 9 (Order 9) should spark outrage from all who cherish democracy in Israel, regardless of political affiliation. In an egregious overreach, the Biden administration is infringing on the bedrock principles of free speech and the right to protest, cracking down on a legitimate protest movement committed to preventing aid from enabling the enemy (the Hamas terrorist organization) at a time of war.
Tzav 9 comprises thousands of Israelis from all walks of life, including families of hostages held by Hamas, bereaved families of terror victims, and even former members of the pro-Gaza disengagement Kaplan Force who now recognize the folly of empowering the terrorist rulers of Gaza. They have unified behind the crucial demand: As long as Hamas refuses to release innocent civilian hostages, humanitarian aid must not reach its murderous grasp. And reach its grasp, it does!
Ample evidence of aid exploitation
Extensive documentation confirms that vital supplies being forced upon Israel to transfer into Gaza indeed reach Hamas terrorists and abet their war efforts against Israel – killing IDF soldiers, firing rockets on civilian areas, operating terror tunnels, and indefinitely detaining hostages. The criminals of this organization, which has massacred Israeli civilians of all ages through beheadings, gouging infants' eyes, rape, and other atrocities, have even profited from the aid in recent months by diverting it from desperate Gazans to sell on the black market and fund additional attacks on Israel.
Any individual who claims to uphold Israeli democracy, whether an Israeli citizen or a meddling American diplomat, is ethically obligated to now condemn the Biden administration's actions which injure the hostages' families, Israeli sovereignty, human rights, and the very concept of liberty America purports to champion globally. Secretary of State Antony Blinken himself vowed the US would condemn Hamas for any attempt to "seize the aid itself" instead of allowing it to reach civilians. Yet the administration now reprehensibly targets Israelis working to uphold that very principle.
Curbing legitimate protests
In threatening sanctions against Tzav 9's crucial protests and legal efforts to block aid truck access, the US actively enables the same dictatorial repression of free expression it publicly derides in nations like Russia and China. Its hypocrisy undermines Washington's credibility as a global leader on human rights and democratic values.
While Hamas resembles the depravity of the Nazi regime in how little civilian life is valued, the US has now adopted a chillingly authoritarian posture more characteristic of such abusive regimes it claims to oppose worldwide. In Israel – America's sole legitimate democratic ally in the Middle East – the US moves to curb legitimate protest and expression aimed at upholding human rights.
Tzav 9's volunteers have taken a courageous moral stand in obstructing the unconscionable flow of aid to Hamas terrorists amid active violence against Israelis. They deserve praise from any true champion of freedom, human rights and democratic self-determination – the very principles America's sanctions upon them so alarmingly betray. By impeding aid trucks, this movement preserves a last shred of honor for two nations tragically complicit in empowering such a ruthless enemy during warfare. It is Tzav 9 that upholds human decency, not its misguided antagonists.
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Bkmk
Tzav 9 is, shall we say, an assertive organization. They have every reason to be that way! But Biden is more concerned with the Muslim vote in Michigan than anything else. That’s the bottom line.
When in Israel, I repeatedly told the story of Biden, Michigan, its arabs, and the necessity of winning MI to Biden.
That was an eye opener to each Israeli. They finally understood why Biden was straddling.
Blocking humanitarian aid to the starving is against international law.
The question is, do MI voters hate Biden’s cowardice or Trump more? There could be a shift eventually. If Whitmer becomes a POTUS or VP nominee, she could put one foot closer to Hamas.
Yes, and Hamas, who is stealing all aid and reselling it to the Gazan serfs should be punished. Any volunteers?
The starving aren’t receiving aid.
ham ass is.
100% of aid is stolen by ham ass upon arrival.
They do resell it to the starving at a massive profit they use to support continued terrorism.
Aerial Footage Shows Hamas Fighters Beating Gazans, Stealing Humanitarian Aid From Truck, IDF Says
Is Hamas seizing the aid against international law?
Video shows humanitarian trucks stolen by Hamas, looted by civilians after they enter Gaza
> Blocking humanitarian aid to the starving is against international law. <
Correct, in theory. But the British naval blockade of Germany in WW1 did much the same. From Wikipedia’s article on the subject:
“The blockade is considered one of the key elements in the eventual Allied victory in the war. In December 1918, the German Board of Public Health claimed that 763,000 German civilians had already died from starvation and disease caused by the blockade. An academic study done in 1928 put the death toll at 424,000.”
Gen. Sherman certainly had it right. War is hell.
With thousands of truckloads of aid piled up, groups of armed men are regularly blocking convoys, holding drivers at gunpoint and rifling through their cargo, according to a U.N. official
https://apnews.com/article/gaza-rafah-crime-hamas-israel-988f2919d00339ded5a18f26feafda6f
Things can be spray-painted on the returning aid trucks in Arabic.
Child molester
Let my people go
Jews #1
Book of lies
Re-elect Netanyahu
Caught on camera: Hamas terrorists steal humanitarian aid, beat civilians
Al Jazeera Reporter Stunned When Elderly Gaza Woman Blames Hamas for Stealing Aid: ‘I Am Not Afraid…They Can Shoot Me’
Israel Palestinians: Court finds Gaza aid worker guilty of diverting funds to Hamas
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-61808619
Nearly 70% of Gaza Aid at US-Built Pier Stolen
Now, Biden’s Gaza pier aid is being stolen
International law has been updated since WW1.
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