Weapons transfers to the units will not be impacted by the State Department's findings, spokesperson says

“After a careful process, we found five Israeli units responsible for individual incidents of gross violations of human rights. All of these were incidents much before October 7th and none took place in Gaza,” State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel said Monday.

Patel said the findings would not impact arms transfers.

ABC News reported on Friday that the Biden administration had found at least three military units guilty of human rights violations but decided not to withhold military aid to the units because it believed Israel was addressing the findings.

      • SeaJ@lemm.ee
        17·
        2 months ago

        “There is no such thing as special treatment or double standards here,” Patel said. “The standards of the Leahy Law are applied consistently to all countries.”

        Kind of clashes with this:

        “Four of these units have effectively remediated these violations, which is what we expect partners to do… For a remaining unit, we continue to be in consultations and engagements with the government of Israel.”

        And this:

        These five units, including Netzah Yehuda, are permitted to receive US security assistance.

        So the one that hasn’t done shit to change after the human rights violations are STILL allowed US security assistance? How is that not special treatment?

        • nonailsleft@lemm.ee
          5·
          2 months ago

          So the one that hasn’t done shit to change after the human rights violations are STILL allowed US security assistance? How is that not special treatment?

          Maybe they just want to send a message to the other four

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    2 months ago

    All of these were incidents much before October 7th and none took place in Gaza

    but decided not to withhold military aid to the units because it believed Israel was addressing the findings.

    So announcing this is as useless as when they sanctioned like 5 settlers for about a month

    • nonailsleft@lemm.ee
      12·
      2 months ago

      They’re counting on people only reading the headline and remembering half of it for about a week

      “They’re doing something”

      • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
        5·
        2 months ago

        It’s pretty funny Biden is now employing the israeli Hasbara tactic of spamming misinformation.

        Every week we see a new post about how Biden is going to sanction israel but he either doesn’t follow up on it, or reverses the sanctions directly after placing them.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      It’s just more political campaigning for the upcoming election, just like the recent handful of regulatory measures in a few areas of limited impact to the average American’s Quality Of Life that could’ve and should’ve been done years ago but “strangelly” only got done all together when the Presidential Election was around the corner.

      Throw a few easilly reversible or pure talk bones to wavering supporters to get them to vote for you and spend the next 4 years (minus a few months, reserved for the next vote’s bone-throwing period) doing whatever the hell you want (up to and including activelly supporting genocide with the kind of military equipment known to cause massive collateral damage)

      Mind you, this is not just a Biden or an American thing - I’m involved in a political party in a different country and you get similar shit from the leadership: they pretty much don’t care about what most of the party members think up until 2 or 3 months before an election at which point suddenly you get a couple of high-profile party figures touring the country and doing conferences with the local Party members to “listen to them” - so let’s not deceive ourselfs into thinking seemingly positive measures from politicians anywhere that only ever happen when they need voters to vote for them or party members to do free campaign work for them, are a true genuine change for the better rather than cold calculating manipulation for their own gain.

  • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
    20·
    2 months ago

    An Israeli official told The Times of Israel Monday that Jerusalem “categorically rejects any attempts to harm the IDF and Israel’s right to defend itself.”

    The official added that nothing — not Iran and its proxies, State Department findings, or ICC warrants — will keep Israel from achieving its war aims.

    ICC warrants you say 🤔🤔🤔 I guess there’s something to that rumor.

    • PP_GIRL_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      213·
      2 months ago

      All of these were incidents much before October 7th and none took place in Gaza

      They think we’re idiots.

      • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
        93·
        2 months ago

        Totally. The extent to which the US is providing cover for the Israeli electeds and Netanyahu is not without precedent, but this is absurdity. This is systemic genocide, not isolated war crimes.

  • sudo@programming.dev
    112·
    2 months ago

    Aren’t these the ultra-orthodox that are exempt from military service? Isnt is a major liberal israeli position that these people be conscripted?

    So the israelis most explicitly calling for genocide dont want to do it themselves. And the opposition is “no you have to participate in the genocide”, thinking that’ll somehow shut them up. But then they do participate and just go nuts.

  • Maggoty@lemmy.world
    93·
    2 months ago

    It’s okay though guys they aren’t the ones in Gaza and these violations were so long ago it doesn’t matter anymore.

    See we held Israel accountable, please vote for us now!

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

      Nah this is smoke cover. They’re going to claim this is accountability and pretend everything’s okay now.