This photograph was taken in 2017 when a U.S. drone strike killed al Qaeda deputy leader Abu Khayr al-Masri riding in a car in Syria. This photograph was taken two days ago in Gaza when an Israeli missile killed seven World Central Kitchen workers riding in a small convoy in Gaza.
when are we going to come to our senses? when are we going to stop enabling genocide? when are we going to stop sending weapons of war to a country totally out of control with hatred for another people? I am ashamed to be an American. I am beyond angry my tax dollars fund this 'war'. This was a targeted killing of innocent people - one an American. when is enough going to be enough??
Netanyahu is a bully and fascist. He learned fascist lessons well and apparently has not remorse about the murder of innocent aid workers. The US should be ashamed for supplying weapons to Israel.
The aid worker occupants of three separate vehicles, clearly identifiable, with prior notification to the IDF about their route and purpose, murdered. This is completely unacceptable. The cost in innocent lives of the attack on Gaza is far beyond “proportional.” The US absolutely MUST stop supporting Nartanyahu’s war unconditionally.
Oh, Lucian, you've just broken my heart (again) and I have to get my spiritual super glue out of the drawer. The R9X is yet another example of the chasm between cleverness and wisdom.
What a horrific weapon. I get why it was designed. I get why the U.S. has used it only a handful of times with very careful targeting, to kill known terror masterminds. Looked at abstractly, it's a highly accurate way to kill all occupants of a vehicle without harming anyone nearby. Nevertheless, it's completely horrifying. That Israel struck the very clearly roof-marked car of a team of humanitarian workers, from an aid organization that coordinated elaborately with the IDF to inform them in minute detail of the location of their people, and who informed the IDF of this specific route and times in advance, is not comprehensible as a "mistake".
I am a huge supporter of Israel and have travelled there. based on Lucian’s expert analysis of the this attack on innocent aid workers I am beyond sad, frustrated and angry. I was on active duty as a draftee with in the U.S. Army when the My Lai massacre occurred in Vietnam(1969) and then the Kent State shooting of innocent American students by military personnel(1970).
I can understand Israel’s need to protect itself and even for retaliation but what they are conducting in Gaza now is pure punishment. They can never kill every Hamas fighter and if they did others would take their place.
I am reminded of my favorite anti war movie “King Of Hearts” from 1966 starring Alan Bates. I highly recommend this poignant film the moral of which asks the question; who are the insane? the mental patients or the armies of the world.
For many years I have refused to participate in conversations about Israel, the Palestinians, Hamas, the PLA, Hezbollah, or whomever, including the US role, because they always devolve into who-is-the-bigger-monster. The whole situation in the ME is, of course, monstrous in the first instance. It is easier, at least for me, to decide who is making it worse, and who, if there are such entities, is trying to make it better. All those calling for an immediate ceasefire, and providing humanitarian aid, despite great danger, are in the latter category, except for the US. My anger at the Biden administration for trying to have it both ways, a leg in both camps so-to-speak, is reaching a boiling point. Calling for a ceasefire, finally, while continuing to arm one side is the height of hypocrisy, and absolutely atrocious. I understand, up to a point, the diplomatic delicacy of taking a very hard line with Israel, read arrogant war criminal Yahoo, which becomes more necessary by the day, but how are we not making matters worse with our dithering. We cannot look for praise for being peacemakers while still providing the means for making war. It is that simple, although many will disagree with me. Well, I don’t care.
I would say that Israel has lost me, something I never thought could happen, if tens of thousands of Israelis were not taking to the streets. As long as we keep sending weapons like these we will be as guilty as those who use them to commit genocide.
The attack was deliberate. The drone crew knew exactly what they were looking at and what they were doing. The attack was a war crime of the highest degree. The only remaining question - who ordered the hit?
A few facts that have been left out of the narrative fed to us by Israel. It was not AN attack. There were THREE seperate strikes by the IDF on three individual vehicles over a period of time while the occupants were in contact with them and moving survivors and the dead between vehicles
This is appears to be part of of a coordinated plan to frighten coerce aid agencies to withdraw from Gaza in order to further the use of starvation as a weapon of war against the population.
Don't believe me, listen to the Spanish-American founder of World Central Kitchen, José Andrés talking to the Reuters news agency https://youtu.be/ddoBO4KToSw?
Again, I state I believe that, by supplying the weapons, America risks prosecution for aiding and abetting Israel in crimes against humanity and/or genocide.
when are we going to come to our senses? when are we going to stop enabling genocide? when are we going to stop sending weapons of war to a country totally out of control with hatred for another people? I am ashamed to be an American. I am beyond angry my tax dollars fund this 'war'. This was a targeted killing of innocent people - one an American. when is enough going to be enough??
Netanyahu is a bully and fascist. He learned fascist lessons well and apparently has not remorse about the murder of innocent aid workers. The US should be ashamed for supplying weapons to Israel.
The aid worker occupants of three separate vehicles, clearly identifiable, with prior notification to the IDF about their route and purpose, murdered. This is completely unacceptable. The cost in innocent lives of the attack on Gaza is far beyond “proportional.” The US absolutely MUST stop supporting Nartanyahu’s war unconditionally.
Not on my watch.
I just want to vomit. These humanitarians were the best of mankind..really good people. Israel is so cavalier about this. Stop arming them.
At some point the US has got to act right? This can't go on right?
Horrific death. Chef Andreas minced no words in his video reaction. This should have been resolved a long time ago. Thank you Lucian.
Oh, Lucian, you've just broken my heart (again) and I have to get my spiritual super glue out of the drawer. The R9X is yet another example of the chasm between cleverness and wisdom.
What a horrific weapon. I get why it was designed. I get why the U.S. has used it only a handful of times with very careful targeting, to kill known terror masterminds. Looked at abstractly, it's a highly accurate way to kill all occupants of a vehicle without harming anyone nearby. Nevertheless, it's completely horrifying. That Israel struck the very clearly roof-marked car of a team of humanitarian workers, from an aid organization that coordinated elaborately with the IDF to inform them in minute detail of the location of their people, and who informed the IDF of this specific route and times in advance, is not comprehensible as a "mistake".
I am a huge supporter of Israel and have travelled there. based on Lucian’s expert analysis of the this attack on innocent aid workers I am beyond sad, frustrated and angry. I was on active duty as a draftee with in the U.S. Army when the My Lai massacre occurred in Vietnam(1969) and then the Kent State shooting of innocent American students by military personnel(1970).
I can understand Israel’s need to protect itself and even for retaliation but what they are conducting in Gaza now is pure punishment. They can never kill every Hamas fighter and if they did others would take their place.
I am reminded of my favorite anti war movie “King Of Hearts” from 1966 starring Alan Bates. I highly recommend this poignant film the moral of which asks the question; who are the insane? the mental patients or the armies of the world.
For many years I have refused to participate in conversations about Israel, the Palestinians, Hamas, the PLA, Hezbollah, or whomever, including the US role, because they always devolve into who-is-the-bigger-monster. The whole situation in the ME is, of course, monstrous in the first instance. It is easier, at least for me, to decide who is making it worse, and who, if there are such entities, is trying to make it better. All those calling for an immediate ceasefire, and providing humanitarian aid, despite great danger, are in the latter category, except for the US. My anger at the Biden administration for trying to have it both ways, a leg in both camps so-to-speak, is reaching a boiling point. Calling for a ceasefire, finally, while continuing to arm one side is the height of hypocrisy, and absolutely atrocious. I understand, up to a point, the diplomatic delicacy of taking a very hard line with Israel, read arrogant war criminal Yahoo, which becomes more necessary by the day, but how are we not making matters worse with our dithering. We cannot look for praise for being peacemakers while still providing the means for making war. It is that simple, although many will disagree with me. Well, I don’t care.
It’s hard for me to think this, much less write it: was this attack deliberate?
I would say that Israel has lost me, something I never thought could happen, if tens of thousands of Israelis were not taking to the streets. As long as we keep sending weapons like these we will be as guilty as those who use them to commit genocide.
The attack was deliberate. The drone crew knew exactly what they were looking at and what they were doing. The attack was a war crime of the highest degree. The only remaining question - who ordered the hit?
A few facts that have been left out of the narrative fed to us by Israel. It was not AN attack. There were THREE seperate strikes by the IDF on three individual vehicles over a period of time while the occupants were in contact with them and moving survivors and the dead between vehicles
This is appears to be part of of a coordinated plan to frighten coerce aid agencies to withdraw from Gaza in order to further the use of starvation as a weapon of war against the population.
Don't believe me, listen to the Spanish-American founder of World Central Kitchen, José Andrés talking to the Reuters news agency https://youtu.be/ddoBO4KToSw?
Again, I state I believe that, by supplying the weapons, America risks prosecution for aiding and abetting Israel in crimes against humanity and/or genocide.
We have blood on our hands. Not you and me, but our country does. Something has to change IMMEDIATELY.
Thank you, Lucian. Excellent analysis.