• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world
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      28 days ago

      An investigation isn’t a plan. It’s a delaying tactic. We can’t shovel weapons out the door fast enough for an obvious genocide, but if we want to condition sales, well, as in all things centrists don’t want to do, wouldn’t you know it? Our hands are conveniently tied and we have to go through this whole self-imposed process.

      The genocide will be complete before any bogus “investigation” is over, and that’s the idea.

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          28 days ago

          And since it says the genocide gets to continue, you uncritically accept the comment’s interpretation of the law.

          The Leahy law is a thing, but that’s discretionary because it gets in the way of genocide.

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                  The idea was one excuse buried in several paragraphs about multiple subjects. The Leahy law prohibits selling weapons to governments that we know are committing war crimes. Pretending that Netanyahu isn’t committing war crimes and vaguely announcing that you support an investigation because that’s the only way you can proceed is slow-walking compliance with a law that centrists don’t want to follow and have no intention of ever following.

                  Frankly, I doubt you will accept any explanation that involves anything that might curtail weapons sales to Netanyahu before his genocide is complete and it’s too little, too late.