'No Justification' for IDF Massacre in Gaza to Free Hostages: SACHS
Columbia professor says there is little doubt that the U.S. was complicit in the war crime.
Jeffery Sachs, the Columbia economist, said in an interview with Judge Andrew Napolitano on Monday that Israel’s raid to free four hostages at a refugee camp in Gaza’s Nuseirat was a “brazen” and “disgusting” action — and said there is little doubt that the U.S. was complicit in the war crime.
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Sachs said it was clear that such a raid would result in hundreds of dead and wounded. As of Tuesday, at least 274 Palestinians were killed and 700 injured. Many of those who were injured cannot receive adequate care because of the Israeli blockade.
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Sachs referred to a U.S.-backed ceasefire proposal passed by the UN Security Council on Monday and said these hostages could have been released “aboslutely peacefully” according to the new deal.
He said there is no justification for the massacre to save the four hostages who could have walked out “peacefully, on the basis of a ceasefire agreement agreed by Hamas and rejected by the Israeli extremists.”
“So this is another major war crime, and I'm sure that the United States knew about it… it may have been actively complicit in it,” he said.
(While the mainstream news media in the West continues to portray Hamas as the obdurate party during these negotiations, the reality is that this group knows that Israel will continue its genocide and land-grab the hour any temporary ceasefire expires. Hamas has said for months it will hand over the hostages if three conditions are met: permanent ceasefire, withdrawal of Israeli forces from all of Gaza, and the ability of the population to return home unimpeded.
That is a problem for Netanyahu and Israel because, as we have noted in great detail, they want Gaza and they want the Palestinians out.)
Sachs said the genocide will only end when the U.S. finally says it had enough of the complicity.
Meanwhile, AIPAC’s Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, shared footage of the Israeli raid in Nuseirat and got down on his knees to praise Israel.
“Real-life superheroes,” Cruz posted. “Wannabe terrorists should give this video a watch and decide if this is how they want their lives to end.”
Balakrishnan Rajagopal, the UN’s special rapporteur, criticized countries that celebrated the raid – without mentioning the U.S. – and said these countries that don’t mention “the hundreds of Palestinians killed and thousands held in arbitrary detention by Israel, have lost moral credibility for generations and don’t deserve to be on any UN human rights body.”
Craig Mokhiber, the former UN lawyer, posted on X that “Israel justifies attacking humanitarian vehicles by falsely claiming they contain combatants. Then it actually hides its own soldiers in humanitarian vehicles. Once again, every Israeli accusation is a confession.”
He posted a video that claimed to show IDF forces Israeli occupation soldiers using the failed “humanitarian pier” during its offensive operations in the refugee camp.
TREND FORECAST: With Netanyahu reliant on his fellow Knesset extremists – compounded by his upcoming appearance before the AIPAC extremists in Congress – Israel’s killing in Gaza will only intensify in the coming weeks, and the Biden administration – that has determined maintaining Jewish support in the U.S. is more important than minority votes – will be fully committed to supporting Israel and its atrocities. This will turn out to be a summer of blood for Palestinians.