US forcefully pushes again on Netanyahu’s post-war Gaza occupation plans

However implementing such a post-conflict imaginative and prescient can be tough in view of things such because the unpopularity of Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas and the opposition throughout the Netanyahu authorities to establishing a Palestinian state.

Divisions over the struggle have additionally deepened in Washington, the place the only real Palestinian-American within the US Congress has been formally censured by her Democrat colleagues for making inflammatory feedback about Israel.

After a fiery debate, Rashida Talib was formally rebuked on Tuesday evening, when 22 Democrats joined Republicans to cross a decision accusing her of “selling false narratives” concerning the October 7 assault and “calling for the destruction of the state of Israel”.

Tlaib has been an ardent critic of the Israel authorities for years, and proudly shows the Palestinian flag outdoors her workplace door.

However the progressive Democrat angered the White Home and her celebration colleagues when she put out a video over the weekend accusing President Joe Biden over being complicit in genocide interspersed with photographs of the useless and injured in Gaza, together with pro-Palestinian protests throughout the US.

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Probably the most controversial a part of the video was an embrace of the phrase “from the river to the ocean” – which many Jews view as an anti-sematic rallying cry that requires the eradication of Israel – earlier than ending with the warning: “Joe Biden supported the genocide of the Palestinian individuals. The American individuals gained’t neglect.”

Republicans instantly moved to censure Tlaib – a course of that quantities to a public rebuke, one step from expulsion within the Congress.

And regardless of Tlaib insisting that her feedback had been merely a mirrored image of the Israeli authorities, not the Israeli individuals, the decision handed with 234 votes to 188.

“Congresswoman Tlaib has repeatedly insisted on utilizing inflammatory language that dangerously amplifies Hamas propaganda and disinformation,” mentioned Illinois Democrat Brad Schneider, who was one of many 22 Democrats who sided with Republicans on the vote.

“I recognise this censure decision isn’t an ideal decision in its language or kind, however sadly it’s the solely automobile out there to formally rebuke the damaging disinformation and aspersions that Consultant Tlaib continues to make use of and defend.”

Whereas a censure movement is essentially symbolic, it nonetheless underscores the widening chasm in Washington over the best way Israel is finishing up the struggle because the push for a ceasefire intensifies.

Fellow progressive Democrat Cori Bush described the censuring of her colleague as “shameful”.

“Yesterday’s censure of free speech despatched a message that grieving & combating to your individuals is barely valued if the individuals you’re grieving & combating for are themselves deemed beneficial,” she tweeted.

Extra protection of the Hamas-Israel battle

• Cascading violence: Tremors from the Hamas assaults and Israel’s response have reached far past the border. However what would all-out struggle within the Center East appear to be?
• The human value: Hamas’ bloodbath in Israel has traumatised – and hardened – survivors. And in Gaza, neighbourhoods have grow to be ghost cities.
• “Hamas metro”: Contained in the labyrinthine community of underground tunnels, which the Palestinian militant group has commanded beneath war-ravaged Gaza for 16 years. The covert corridors have lengthy offered important channels for the motion of weapons and armed combatants.
• What’s Hezbollah?: As fears of the battle increasing past Israel and Hamas steadily rise, all eyes are on the militant group and political celebration that controls southern Lebanon and has been designated internationally as a terrorist group. How did it kind and what does Iran need to do with it?