The IRS isn't going to get me the $600 Joe owes me and most Americans. Mr "Vote Blue in Georgia for a $2000 Stimulus Check" lied to our faces and sent out a $1400 check instead.
I would have asked to give the West Bank rights and include the option to expand into Gaza if Hamas is out of power, and surrenders.
Just another Biden W
UN security staff killed in Gaza; Guterres calls for probe
A staff member of the UN Department of Safety and Security (DSS) died and another was injured when their UN vehicle was struck as they travelled to the European Hospital in Rafah, Gaza, on Monday.
Condemning all attacks on UN personnel, Secretary-General António Guterres has called for a full investigation, his deputy spokesperson, Farhan Haq, told journalists in New York.
“With the conflict in Gaza continuing to take a heavy toll – not only on civilians, but also on humanitarian workers – the Secretary-General reiterates his urgent appeal for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire and for the release of all hostages,” he said.
Questioned by journalists, Mr. Haq said that the UN was still gathering information on the incident. He later confirmed that the security personnel killed was an international staff member, marking the first such UN death in the Gaza conflict.
www.amnesty.org
How many more different forms will it take before the grim message finally gets through? We cannot keep splitting reality like this, the damage to our future is extrapolating in ways we cannot even begin to measure yet. Qanon's success was bad enough, this is just gonna breed more layers of denial and alienation within communities just for starters.Army officer resigns after being ‘haunted’ by US support for Gaza’s ‘ethnic cleansing’
Major Harrison Mann's departure marks first public high-profile resignation of US military officer and member of intelligence community
Palestinians check the rubble of a residential building destroyed in an Israeli strike in al-Zawayda in central Gaza Strip, on 11 May 2024 (AFP)
A US army officer has publicly resigned from the Department of Defence in protest against the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza.
Major Harrison Mann said he resigned from the Department of Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) over the “nearly unqualified support” the US has provided Israel “which has enabled and empowered the killing and starvation of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians [in Gaza]".
In a resignation letter posted on LinkedIn on Monday, Mann, who resigned on 1 November, explained to colleagues the reason for his “abrupt departure” from the agency.
“At some point…you’re either advancing a policy that enables [the] mass starvation of children, or you’re not,” he wrote. “I know that I did, in my small way, wittingly advance that policy.”
Mann served as a US Army officer for 13 years, with a posting as a security cooperation officer at the US embassy in Tunis.
Following his stint in Tunisia, he served as a Middle East intelligence analyst at DIA, and most recently as an “executive officer” at the agency’s Middle East and Africa centre, according to his LinkedIn account.
Mann’s departure is the first time a US Army officer and member of the intelligence community has publicly resigned in protest against US support for Israel’s war on Gaza.
The Department of State has seen two public resignations over the Biden administration’s Gaza policy, the most high-profile of which was the departure of Josh Paul, a former director overseeing US arms transfers.
Annelle Sheline, a foreign affairs officer on a two-year contract with the State Department, also resigned in March.
Mann acknowledged the junior role he played at DIA, noting that his work may have appeared “administrative or marginal".
“The past months have presented us with the most horrific and heartbreaking images imaginable…and I have been unable to ignore the connection between those images and my duties here. This caused me incredible shame and guilt.”
'Living an alternate universe'
Mann cited his European Jewish ancestry, saying he was “haunted” by what he believed was his failure to live up to the“unforgiving moral environment when it came to the topic of bearing responsibility for ethnic cleansing”.
Mann is not the first member of the US military to protest against US support for Israel.
In February, Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old US Air Force serviceman, self-immolated outside Israel's embassy in Washington DC as he screamed "Free Palestine," in protest against the Biden administration's Gaza policy. He later died of his injuries.
However, Mann’s letter is notable because he lays out how he wrestled with the notion of military duty and respect for senior officers with his personal opposition to US support for Israel.
“I told myself, I don’t make policy and it’s not my place to question it,” he said, adding that he was sure some colleagues would “feel betrayed”.
He described an environment where few colleagues spoke out about the war in Gaza and US support for Israel. “I felt like I was living in an alternate universe.”
“I now realize the obvious - if I was afraid to voice my concerns, you were too.” He wrote.
Middle East Eye contacted Mann for comment on this article but didn't receive a reply by the time of publication.
Mann’s resignation letter comes as US and Israeli defence ties are under intense scrutiny, with President Biden threatening to withhold offensive arms from Israel over Rafah.
On Friday, the Biden administration released a report stating that there are reasonable grounds to believe Israel used American-supplied weapons "inconsistent" with international humanitarian law but stopped short of issuing a final judgement.
I look forward to the history books that question how The IDF themselves keep uploading literal War Crimes online and and The United States sat back and said "we don't think Israel is committing war crimes"
I think you underestimate the cynicism involved in this case. They either do not care how they will be perceived in history books or they believe they will be writing the history books.
Likely the latter.
How much you publicize your genocide isn't terribly important so long as no one puts forth real effort to stop you and you eventually succeed before they do.
Common Biden W
Biden says US won't supply weapons for Israel to attack Rafah, in warning to ally
The U.S. has historically provided enormous amounts of military aid to Israel.apnews.com
It's hard focussing on who you're killing when you're busy making war crime tiktoks.An IDF tank killed 5 IDF soldiers and injured 7 more in a 'friendly fire' incident in Jabalia, when it attacked a building they were occupying. Wasn't even during a battle.
5 Israeli soldiers killed by friendly fire in northern Gaza
The Israel Defense Forces said it had opened an investigation into the deadly incident, which it said happened when the soldiers were hit by tank crossfire in Jabalia.www.nbcnews.com
And we're supposed to believe that all necessary precautions are being taken to avoid unnecessary/civilian casualties...? The IDF only acknowledges these incidents when they involve their own people (or else very high profile organisations like the UN... and even then only sometimes).
In their defense, they thought they heard children playingAn IDF tank killed 5 IDF soldiers and injured 7 more in a 'friendly fire' incident in Jabalia, when it attacked a building they were occupying. Wasn't even during a battle.
5 Israeli soldiers killed by friendly fire in northern Gaza
The Israel Defense Forces said it had opened an investigation into the deadly incident, which it said happened when the soldiers were hit by tank crossfire in Jabalia.
And we're supposed to believe that all necessary precautions are being taken to avoid unnecessary/civilian casualties...? The IDF only acknowledges these incidents when they involve their own people (or else very high profile organisations like the UN... and even then only sometimes).
