For the second time in 10 days, White House National Security Spokesperson John Kirby makes the position of the White House and the United States government clear: Israel is not engaged in genocide, but Hamas has engaged in genocide.
"This word genocide is getting thrown around in a pretty inappropriate way by lots of different folks. What Hamas wants, make no mistake about it, is genocide. they want to wipe Israel off the map, they've said so, publicly, on more than one occasion, in fact just recently. And they've said that they're not going to stop. What happened on the 7th of October is going to happen again, and again, and again."
"And what happened on the 7th of October? Murder, slaughter, of innocent people in their homes, or at a music festival. That's genocidal intentions. Yes, there are too many civilian casualties in Gaza, yes the numbers are too high, yes too many families are grieving, and yes we continue to urge the Israelis to be as careful and cautious as possible. That's not gonna stop."
"From the president and right on down. But Israel is not trying to wipe the Palestinian people off the map, Israel is not trying wipe Gaza off the map. Israel is trying to defend itself against a genocidal terrorist threat. So if we're going to start using that word, fine, let's use it appropriately."
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Israel isn't pursuing genocide; they're just enthusiastically engaged in a campaign that, by coincidence, mirrors the textbook definition of genocide.
My speech about how Israel isn't exterminating Palestinians is raising a lot of questions answered by my speech
Do not trust your lying eyes and deceitful ears, 2+2 is five, there are five lights,
The fact that they have to say all this shows that the pro-Palestine movement is growing in strength.
Let's hope that we're successful...
They're literally sitting on stolen land and have been exterminating Palestinians for decades
Does anybody have a link to that vid on Twitter (etc?) where Kirby is at the White House podium and he's a CGI clown crying waterworks tears?
I googled but I got nowhere. I wish AI actually worked that way I could find the damn vid.
According to Kirby, this is a genocide because you said you wanted to do something.
Unlike Isreal who is just indiscriminately bombing civilians, destroying water and food supplies, targeting pla es they told people to gather for safety but saying they're totally not doing a genocide.
Obviously lobbing unguided rockets in the direction of the capital city of your oppressor is genocide.
Systematically destroying every hospital, sewer pump, water well, and refugee camp is just what happens in a war. I know it is ugly but they deserve it for voting for Hamas in '06 sweety.
The sum of two and two was always five; Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia, et cetera, so forth god will someone send the nukes already
No more Orwell references for you. Sit in the corner and think about what you’ve done.
When they bother saying it isn't is how you know it is.
when the day of reckoning comes.
