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  • You seem to misunderstand the claim being made. The article is stating that Blinken was involved in creating the policy that said Israel had the right to fire on anyone they deemed to have been compromised by Hamas. Blinken absolutely was involved in drafting and approving that policy.

    After the multiple humanitarian aid bombings conducted by the IDF, Israeli politicians have been claiming that they've just been setting forth the policy agreed to by Blinken and the US. And there has been no evidence that Blinken or the US government as a whole has pushed back on that or changed their stance on the policy in question in the months since.

  • It's an offshoot of The Intercept, which is quite easy to look up. The article seems to quite clearly point out that it is Israeli politicians claiming they had Blinken's approval and backing for their actions. They are quite likely lying in retrospect, but the article does give all the information available on the topic.

    It also links to other sources for every statement and claim in it.

    But, hey, feel free to try and downplay the straightforward information presented in the article.

  • And? The point of Israel funding Hamas is that they would be able to continue attacking and thus let Israel continue disrupting the lives of Palestinians in both Gaza and West Bank, including expanding their illegal settlements. The entire point was to get excuses to keep destroying anything the PA tried to build as a government.

  • They're also heavily funded with money from Israel, who wants them to keep fighting. Per Netanyahu's own admission, Israel has been covertly supporting Hamas so that the PA can't gain enough power to actually make a viable Palestinian state.

  • politics @lemmy.world

    GOP senator tells Arab American witness at hate crimes hearing to 'hide your head in a bag'

    www.nbcnews.com /politics/congress/gop-senator-repeatedly-suggests-arab-american-witness-supports-hamas-h-rcna171565
  • World News @lemmy.world

    Aid agency insiders claim BBC ‘blocking’ Gaza humanitarian appeal

    www.theguardian.com /world/article/2024/sep/06/aid-agency-insiders-claim-bbc-blocking-gaza-humanitarian-appeal
  • World News @lemmy.world

    Israel says 'high probability' its own airstrike killed 3 hostages in Gaza last November

    www.pbs.org /newshour/world/israel-says-high-probability-its-own-airstrike-killed-3-hostages-in-gaza-last-november
  • Sure, but the bigger issue, as noted from the quotes in my comment, is how can the IMF even do a real evaluation when Russia is almost certainly lying about its economic and trade figures? If the IMF does try to make a statement taking a definitive stance on Russia's current economy, then we'll all know the IMF is agreeing to push Russia's bullshit.

  • “What recommendations does the IMF want to give Russia at the end of the consultation? How to better run a war economy?” one senior eurozone official told Reuters.

    Tim Ash, a Russia analyst at the foreign affairs thinktank Chatham House, said in a blogpost: “Clearly while article IV reviews are about surveillance they are also about providing policy advice to countries as to where they are going wrong and trying to provide advice as how to improve their economic outturns.

    “Inevitably therefore IMF officials, in making the trip to Moscow, will be helping Russia improve its economy and by so doing will be leaving themselves open to being accused of helping Russia in the conduct of the war against Ukraine.”


    Robin Brooks, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, said: “A basic requirement for IMF membership is data transparency, which Russia clearly no longer satisfies on a number of fronts.

    “Russia has stopped publishing lots of data and there are questions around whether the data it continues to publish are accurate.”


    Brooks said the Kremlin was publishing trade figures that showed low income from oil produced in the Urals, even though the price of Russian oil has remained “quite elevated”. It meant the current account, which measures the net effect of trade and financial flows, would disguise the size of Russia’s war chest.

    “Russia should be suspended from the IMF while these data questions persist,” he said.

  • World News @lemmy.world

    IMF plan to visit Russia to assess economy prompts dismay across Europe

    www.theguardian.com /business/2024/sep/13/imf-plan-to-go-to-russia-to-assess-economy-prompts-dismay-across-europe
  • News @lemmy.world

    Mark Ruffalo, Ramy Youssef and More Call on SAG-AFTRA Leaders to Protect Pro-Palestine Members From Being Blacklisted

    www.hollywoodreporter.com /news/politics-news/mark-ruffalo-ramy-youssef-call-for-pro-palestine-sag-member-protection-1235993880/
  • World News @lemmy.world

    A Secretive Conference About The Middle East’s Future Featured No Palestinians

    www.huffpost.com /entry/middle-east-conference-no-palestinians_n_66e08a5fe4b0f6ea72e2c872
  • Even if Florida doesn't go blue, the fact that it's this close kinda acts as a barometer for the rest of the country.

  • I honestly expect him to be even worse behaving in the debate than previous times and spend the entire time just trying to insult Harris with sexist statements and the like, trying even less to answer the debate questions than he usually does (which admittedly isn't much at all anyways).

  • I'm always more and more weirded out when plant-based foods try to mimic meat. Even to extremes like with Spam here. Just...why?

  • World News @lemmy.world

    How a Single Family Was Shot Dead on a Street in Gaza

    www.nytimes.com /video/world/middleeast/100000009614868/israel-gaza-war-family-killed.html
  • When, of course, civil rights has little to nothing to do with it. The current issues with the country in terms of economy, such as rampant inflation, is the result of the very policies conservatives have been extolling for generations. To go back in the manner they want would mean to reduce and revert the impact conservative policies have harmfully built up over the generations.

  • The good thing is that each usage thus far has only been in the narrow strips of hiding trees, so there's no risk of a large fire breaking out. A lot of the people whining on social media about killing trees are purposefully ignoring that fact.

  • I didn't know the courts could just say "no strike". Aren't most strikes by definition going against the rules?

  • Expect this thread to get deleted by the mods, since mine of the same link was deleted just a moment ago. No reason given, but given past history, I presume it's because it's not a "mainstream" enough news source for the mods.

  • West Bank wasn't an "active war zone" until Israel invaded it the other day. Prior to this, it was just a bunch of Israeli illegal aliens trying to take over the land and attacking the Palestinian civilians living there.

  • They're seriously trying to claim that none of the drones actually hit anything and all of the damage we're seeing (the rather extensive damage) is all just "debris" from them downing the drones.

    Sure, Jan, sure.

  • Israel has described the operation as a strategy to prevent attacks on Israeli civilians, which since the start of the war have increased in the West Bank, including near settlements that the international community largely considers illegal. In return, the Palestinian Health Ministry noted a surge in Palestinian deaths by Israeli forces, with 663 killed in the West Bank in the nearly 11 months since the war began.

    In central Gaza, Israeli airstrikes hit a multi-story building housing displaced people in and around Nuseirat, a built-up refugee camp in central Gaza, further south in Khan Younis and northward in Gaza City, officials at hospitals in the three areas said on Saturday morning.

    Among the dead were a physician and his family and a child whose right leg had been previously amputated, according to an initial list of casualties from the hospital and footage released on Saturday by civil defense officials who operated under Gaza's Hamas-run government.

    So even Israel's claimed reason for the attack on West Bank is because of Palestinians defending and retaliating against violent illegals in their country?

  • The "group of individuals" was the local movement company. They were assisting getting to the destination and there was no evidence that they made any hostile actions. That's what ANERA says in this article even. So they didn't admit to any of the made up nonsense that IDF or this Times of Israel article is claiming.

  • So, they're not even trying to hide their actions at this point. Doing this in West Bank shows the goal is indeed the ethnic cleansing of the population and forcing them out so the land can be taken. We already know that has been the prerogative for decades, but this is a pretty blatant example.

  • That's some high tier psychological damage right there.