Live updates on the Israel-Gaza conflict.

President Joe Biden was asked by a reporter in Israel on Wednesday what made him confident that the Israelis weren’t behind the explosion that killed hundreds at a Gaza hospital on Tuesday.

Biden responded that it was “the data I was shown by my Defense Department.”

Two U.S. officials told ABC News the Pentagon independently concluded the Gaza hospital blast was likely caused by an errant Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket that fell short of its target.

  • R0cket_M00seEnglish
    6•1 year ago

    Yeah, the people of Palestine haven’t exactly been pushing for a two state solution and they back/vote in groups that want to exterminate the jews and enforce Sharia law wherever they can.

    Even if Israel wanted a two state solution they’re not going to get it. Not until Palestinians can come up with a functional government that isn’t made up of a group that has genocide as one of their stated political goals.

    And I mean actual genocide, the attempt to end a genetic lineage through violence, not the “genocide” of lemmy which essentially just means “cultural disruption/assimilation”, a widening of definition that allows them to pretend that it’s equal on both sides cause “they’re both committing genocide!”

    • @[email protected]English
      7•1 year ago

      It’s kind of funny to me listening to people who advocate for separate states. I mean, sure, do it. But don’t expect that to stop religious zealots from firing peace rockets at each other.

      • R0cket_M00seEnglish
        6•1 year ago

        It won’t stop anything, a two state solution is a joke.

        The best case scenario now is for Palestinians to assimilate into other Muslim countries, it’s not ideal but it’s probably the way fewest people will die.

    • @[email protected]English
      5•1 year ago

      Sorry man, it’s not a “Lemmy” definition, that’s literally a type of genocide as defined by the UN.

      • SpziEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        Yes, the definition is vague: https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

        genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

        • Killing members of the group;
        • Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
        • Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
        • Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
        • Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

        It hinges on “intent”, which needs to be inferred and interpreted. It includes terms like “in whole or in part”, and does not specify how many “members of the group” are the lower limit.

        However, the main point of R0cket_M00se still stands. There is a significant width in the spectrum of acts and intents which can be classified as genocide, with Hamas proudly on the upper end.