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CNN reports: An American died in the West Bank on Saturday, the US State Department confirmed Monday, the second death in less than a month of a US citizen in the occupied Palestinian territory.

“We can confirm the death of a U.S. citizen civilian in the West Bank on February 10, 2024,” a State Department spokesperson told CNN, adding that department officials “are working to gather more information and have pressed the Government of Israel for further information.”

“We extend our deepest condolences to the family,” the spokesperson said. “Out of respect to the family, we have nothing further to share.”

Last month, another American, 17-year-old Tawfiq Hafiz Ajjaq, was fatally shot in the head, according to Palestinian news agency WAFA. Israel’s police have opened an investigation into the incident, the IDF and Israeli police told CNN last month.

Defense for Children International – Palestine adds: Mohammad Ahmed Mohammad Khdour, 17, was shot in the head by Israeli forces around 4:30 p.m. on February 10 west of the Palestinian town of Biddu, northwest of Jerusalem in the central occupied West Bank, according to documentation collected by Defense for Children International – Palestine.

read more: https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-forces-killed-2nd-american-citizen-west-bank-under-month-day-130/

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[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

And Democrats will oppose Trump's genocide, rather than lining up behind the genocide like they have under Biden. That matters and that's why I'm voting for Democrats down ticket. I want them to obstruct the genocide instead of be complicit like they are under Biden.

Republicans control the majority of the House. Republicans also hold the most seats in the Senate. If Trump wins, they'll have presidency as well.

The system of checks and balances falls apart when one party controls all three bodies involved in passing legislation. The best Democrats could hope for is indefinitely delaying legislation at the Senate level.

Also, there's no basis for assuming that Biden's second term won't be even more genocidal. Right now he has to worry about the election, how bad is he going to get without that hanging over his head? You're just assuming Trump will be worse because he's more vulgar.

There's nothing to assume; if Trump gets what he wants, he will cause an even greater loss of human life globally.

Biden and his NATO allies are keeping the war going by stopping negotiations. Biden made the war worse.

Negotiations with a party holding the stance that they would not settle for less than the full annexation of Ukraine? The only way to not make that worse in the short term is to give Putin exactly what he wants—which will be far worse in the long term.

Biden is putting us on the brink of war with Iran! And Yemen! And Lebanon!

I can't refute or argue against this without citations, and I'm not finding much other than speculation.

We're on the verge of fucking WWIII under Biden.

Same as above, and that's also the rhetoric Trump is using in his campaign against Biden.

Again, he's just bad in different ways.

I don't disagree that they're both bad, but Trump is magnitudes worse. Until he either finally dies or gives up on a second term, the best thing United States citizens can do for the country and rest of world is make sure he doesn't ever get re-elected.

revolutionary defeatism is not accelerationism

Revolutionary defeatism without a revolutionary class willing to or capable of starting a civil war isn't much more than political nihilism in practice. To that effect, inaction in mitigating capitalist interests from overtaking the interests of the proletariat performs the same role as accelerationism: allowing a capitalist society to destabilize itself and implode.

After that, by all means, eat the formerly-rich.

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