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  • I’m not there to see for myself, but it’s not as straightforward as the headlines sound. Here’s what I mean, from BBC from when this recent blockade began three weeks ago:

    A statement from Netanyahu’s office said: "With the end of Phase 1 of the hostage deal, and in light of Hamas’s refusal to accept the Witkoff outline for continuing talks - to which Israel agreed - Prime Minister Netanyahu has decided that, as of this morning, all entry of goods and supplies into the Gaza Strip will cease.

    “Israel will not allow a ceasefire without the release of our hostages. If Hamas continues its refusal, there will be further consequences.”

    Aid agencies confirmed that no aid trucks had been allowed into Gaza on Sunday morning.

    Thousands of trucks entered the Gaza Strip each week since the ceasefire was agreed in mid-January.

    Aid agencies have managed to store supplies, which means there is no immediate danger to the civilian population from this morning’s Israeli decision.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9q4w99je78o

    From January:

    The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said 897 aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, citing information it received from Israel and the guarantors for the ceasefire agreement - the United States, Egypt and Qatar.

    This compares with 630 on Sunday and 915 on Monday. The truce deal requires at least 600 truckloads of aid to be allowed into Gaza every day of the initial six-week ceasefire, including 50 carrying fuel. Half of those trucks are supposed to go to Gaza’s north, where experts have warned famine is imminent

    https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-says-897-aid-trucks-entered-gaza-tuesday-2025-01-21/

    That second article is from January 2025, and KeepOnStalin and anti-western media have been spamming articles about how imminent the famine is since November of of 2023. Does the rote death toll reflect a widespread catastrophic famine when 99/100 people in Gaza have survived?

    Even while thousands of trucks poured in every week, KeepOnStalin posted the same five articles over and over about genocidal Israel is.

    Point is, it’s just not as straightforward as the headlines and KeepOnStallin make it sound. Nuance is hard.


  • Wrong. Not a Zionist, which is idiotic.

    You post the same fundraising links with zero aside from “reports.” I’m not convinced by evidence that’s falls apart under basic scrutiny. Also, things that make decent people angry aren’t automatically war crimes; the mere fact that civilians die in a warzone does not equate to war crimes.

    And, you can’t refute the hard facts:

    If Israel wanted to could it obliterate all of Gaza and kill every person in it within a matter of hours or days? Yes.

    Has Israel done that? No.

    Has Israel killed an obviously excessive number of civilians? Yes.

    Are there potentially valid moral and legal explanations for such excess civilian casualties? Yes. Hamas uses mass human shields as a primary strategy of defense and offense; and civilian casualties that occur incidentally to valid military actions–weighed against the larger, conflict- long war against actual terrorists–are not unlawful.

    Despite the explanations, is there nonetheless an obscene number of civilians casualties or clear operational intent? No. Again, 99/100 people in Gaza remain alive, and certainly you must agree that tends to suggest there isn’t some rampant genocide as you describe; there are no roving death squads point-blank murdering woman and children, no helicopter gunships firing indicrininatly¹ on crowds of refugees without even a pretext of legit military advantage, such as in Rwanda or Darfur.

    Finally, if Hamas surrenders, the war ends. How is that genocidal?


    1. Indiscriminate here means actually indiscriminate, not how you use it to describe every targeted attack against Hamas members that results in damage or causality to any adjacent structure or person. It means actually indiscriminate, like how Hamas attacks civilians day in day out, with thousands of unguided rockets per week for years on end.




  • 28 USC Sec. 566

    (a)It is the primary role and mission of the United States Marshals Service to provide for the security and to obey, execute, and enforce all orders of the United States District Courts, the United States Courts of Appeals, the Court of International Trade, and the United States Tax Court, as provided by law.

    (b) The United States marshal of each district is the marshal of the district court and of the court of appeals when sitting in that district, and of the Court of International Trade holding sessions in that district, and may, in the discretion of the respective courts, be required to attend any session of court.

    ©Except as otherwise provided by law or Rule of Procedure, the United States Marshals Service shall execute all lawful writs, process, and orders issued under the authority of the United States, and shall command all necessary assistance to execute its duties.

    This codified the common law in the US.

    The Court’s order to its district marshal is superior to any DoJ order. If the marshal won’t act, the Court can conpel them into court and hold them in contempt.

    Courts (and marshals) can also deputize people to execute their orders. They can also hold others in contempt who contribute to orders not being followed…they can start seizing and freezing assets of Trump’s helpers; they can award money damages as sanctions, they can disbar attorneys. There’s a lot they can do. I hope the courts start playing hard ball with these lawless fucks.