A senior Pentagon official warned the White House last October that Israel\u2019s plan to uproot more than a million Palestinians from their homes in Gaza would be a humanitarian disaster and could violate international law, leading to war crime charges against Israel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s according to Reuters, which reports the warning came in an October 13th e-mail — just days after Israel began it’s latest genocidal ethnic-cleansing operation. The warning to the White House came from Dana Stroul, then the deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stroul wrote that an assessment by the Red Cross predicting a \u201chumanitarian catastrophe\u201d from Israel\u2019s mass expulsion order had left her \u201cchilled to the bone.\u201d Despite those concerns and similar dire warnings from the State Department\u2019s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, the White House expedited the transfer of weapons to Israel, including thousands of precision-guided missiles and 2,000-pound bombs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, Drop Site News is reporting Secretary of State Antony Blinken last October signed off on a plan by Israel to bomb trucks bringing humanitarian aid into Gaza. Blinken\u2019s approval came after he joined an emergency meeting of Israel\u2019s war cabinet at the Israeli military\u2019s headquarters in Tel Aviv last October 16 and 17. After the talks, Cabinet member Bezalel Smotrich said: \u201cWe in the cabinet were promised at the outset \u2026 that aid trucks hijacked by Hamas and its organizations would be bombed from the air, and the aid would be halted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over the weekend, in an interview with CBS\u2019s \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d Vice President Kamala Harris defended U.S. military aid to Israel, which soared to a record $17.9 billion over the past year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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