• @Krono
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    626 days ago

    The president has oversight in weapons shipments.

    Congress passed the Leahy law, which prevents weapons shipments to regimes that violate human rights.

    The only thing the Biden state dept has to do is acknowledge Israel’s war crimes in a formal report. But they have been bending over backwards to delay and water down the report.

    Biden could legally stop these genocidal resupplies today if he wanted to .

      • @Krono
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        526 days ago

        intensive investigation

        Yes that intensive investigation has occurred, the report was released on May 10. It stopped just short of admitting gross violations of human rights in Gaza.

        This political document, submitted by the Biden administration’s state department, laughably suggests that there is no evidence of intentional wrongdoing, nor did Israel arbitrarily obstruct humanitarian aid into Gaza.

        I think the only way you can read this report and find it credible is if you are already filled with Zionist propaganda.

        • @ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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          025 days ago

          I listed the four reasons above by which arms can be withheld. Violations of human rights and obstructing aid are not on that list, like it or not. I find it highly more likely that if there was any wrongdoing, it was Israel concealing the truth from US investigators, not bad faith of the US government. Biden was literally one of the drafters of United Nations Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. I don’t see him standing by and letting that happen if he can help it.

        • @ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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          025 days ago

          Not that I am aware. The only one that might have happened is torture but that depends on whether the legal definition includes thing like waterboarding, sleep deprivation, or other things we like to call “enhanced interrogation”.