Amnesty Israel disowns the recent Amnesty International report about the alleged Palestinian genocide by Israel, but nevertheless states "the scale of the killing and destruction carried out by Israel in Gaza has reached horrific proportions and must be stopped immediately".

While not the intentions of the piece, this article highlights the pitfalls of framing Israel's actions as "genocide, unjustified; not genocide, justified". The discussion of whether this qualifies as a genocide or not is a much more detailed and nuanced topic than the simpler one of whether Israel's actions are justified. And while there are in-the-weeds arguments about whether this qualifies as a genocide, it is abundantly clear that Israel's actions within Gaza are too far and must be stopped.

I think it's fair to believe this genocide is one of the main things Biden will be remembered for. Biden has shown repeatedly that there aren't any red lines for the way Israel acts. Even when Israel faced an ultimatum from the US to improve conditions, the US still backed away from taking action.

From the article:

"Israel's actions failed to meet any of the specific criteria set out in the U.S. letter," the eight humanitarian groups, including Save the Children and Oxfam, said in a joint assessment of Israel's response to the U.S. demands.

As well as this:

The aid groups' report said the humanitarian "situation is in an even more dire state today than a month ago," particularly in northern Gaza, which has faced the brunt of Israel's ongoing war with the Iran-backed group Hamas.

The Majority Report crew talk about a few things in this clip, including...

• How Hezbollah was created during Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon
• The absurdity of calling Hezbollah''s actions "an unprovoked attack against Israel" when Israel had just committed terrorist pager attacks against Lebanese civilians and Israel bombing Southern Lebanon
• The orientalism of believing after destroying a leader of a terrorist group that no one will fill the power vacuum, tying that back to US's war in Iraq

Keep in mind that Netanyahu is speaking in English. This message is for the US, not the Lebanese people .

Mostafa Barghouti, secretary-general of the Palestinian National Initiative, said Israel has no right, legally speaking, to close any office in Ramallah, which falls in Area A under the security and civil administration of the Palestinian Authority (PA). He added that Al Jazeera’s operating license was issued by the PA.

“This is the real face of Israel, a country that claims to be a democracy and claims to be supporting freedom of press,” he said.

The Majority Report talk about here how Israel (the government) is trying to provoke a larger Middle East war, committing a terror attack on Lebanese civilians in order to do it.