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Blinken says US can't support Rafah assault without humanitarian plan
2024-05-02
[GEO.TV] US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
said on Wednesday he has still not seen a plan for Israel's planned offensive on the southern Gazoo
Islamic Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response. In October of 2023 Gazooks belonging to Hamas invaded Israel, killed over a thousand people, raped a bunch of women. Then they bitched and moaned about genocide when their butts handed to them in the entirely justified retaliation.
city of Rafah that would protect civilians, repeating that Washington could not support such an assault.

Blinken and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in Jerusalem for two-and-a-half hours, after which Israel repeated that the Rafah operation would go ahead despite the US position and a stark UN warning that it would lead to "tragedy".

"We cannot, will not support a major military operation in Rafah absent an effective plan to make sure that civilians are not harmed and no, we've not seen such a plan," Blinken told news hounds.

"There are other ways, and in our judgment better ways, of dealing with the ... ongoing challenge of Hamas
...the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
that does not require a major military operation in Rafah," he said, adding that it was the subject of ongoing talks with Israeli officials.
Posted by:Fred

#7  And some wonder how the UN got that way.
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-05-02 23:36  

#6  US says Israel should prevent attacks on aid convoys, Hamas diverting aid also unacceptable
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-05-02 16:55  

#5  Hamas: We're Rejecting Israel's Offer
Posted by: Frank G   2024-05-02 14:20  

#4  The disconnect from reality is pretty startling, even for him.
Posted by: Tom   2024-05-02 13:57  

#3  Winkin Blinkin and Nod can go pound sand.
Posted by: Deacon+Blues   2024-05-02 11:57  

#2  Plan A: Unicorns and Rainbows
Plan B: Kill them All
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-05-02 07:22  

#1  "There are other ways, and in our judgment better ways, of dealing with the ... ongoing challenge of Hamas that does not require a major military operation in Rafah,"

All of these ways have already been tried - in vain. No comment on "your judgment".
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-05-02 01:32  

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