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Gaza needs a humanitarian pause. Then we need a vision of where we go from here | Bernie Sanders (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 1 year ago by assassin_aragorn to c/politics

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This is a fantastic opinion piece by Sanders that lays it out the situation before the Hamas attack, the current situation, and what should be done. He lays out several requirements for peace that aid to Israel should be contingent on. He also notes that Hamas is hurting the Palestinians, which is a detail very few mention.

He's also one of the first people I've seen try to take a stab at what a lasting solution needs to be -- two states, Netanyahu ousted, Hamas destroyed, foundations of Palestinian civil government created.

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[–] derphurr 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This could end overnight if Biden didn't keep making exceptions for Israel. For one thing, is this genocide operation even "legitimate self-defense"? which would make all the funding illegal under AECA (22 U.S.C. §2754)

That's just the AECA, then there is:

Section 502B(a)(2) of the FAA (22 U.S.C. §2304(a)(2)) stipulates that, absent the exercise of certain presidential waivers due to extraordinary circumstances, “no security assistance may be provided to any country the government of which engages in a consistent pattern of gross violations of internationally recognized human rights

Section 620M of the FAA of 1961 (codified as 22 U.S.C. §2378d), as amended, prohibits the furnishing of assistance authorized by the FAA and the AECA to any foreign security force unit where there is credible information that the unit has committed a gross violation of human rights. The State Department and U.S. embassies overseas implement Leahy vetting to determine which foreign security individuals and units are eligible to receive U.S. assistance

(Good read)