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“We were at a village that Israeli settlers had destroyed, they had destroyed the school, they had destroyed that village, and we were just looking at it,” said Khanna, a progressive lawmaker from California in the U.S. House of ​Representatives.

“And these hoodlums come in with machine guns – M4, an American-made machine gun – and they detain us. They block off the road. And then they call the IDF and ​the IDF is on their side, not on the side of the Americans,” Khanna said, referring to the Israeli military.

An aide to ⁠Khanna who was in the group, Cameron Kasky, said they were held for more than an hour and made appeals to the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem for help. A group ​of officers who appeared to be police eventually intervened, leading to their release, Kasky said.

  • zbyte64@awful.systemsEnglish
    991·
    21 hours ago

    This is what I expect our leaders to do. People with far less privilege have been putting their lives on the line while congressional chuckle fucks write stern letters.

    • ALoafOfBread@lemmy.mlEnglish
      192·
      20 hours ago

      I don’t agree with all his positions, and he does take a lot of money from big tech, but his heart is absolutely in the right place. He is a real public servant.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      104·
      18 hours ago

      This is what I expect our leaders to do.

      Under Biden, our leaders had the capacity to preempt the genocide, remove the Netanyahu government from power, and establish a full sovereign Palestinian state.

      This is very dangerous. And it’s definitely bringing more attention to a horror show that’s fallen out of the public eye. But it’s a far cry from what the party needs to be doing

      • dreamkeeper@literature.cafeEnglish
        11·
        2 hours ago

        How would we “remove” Netanyahu from power? And why the hell should we? It isn’t our job to fuck over another country’s democracy just because we don’t like the result.

        I agree with stopping the war in Gaza but miss me with the regime change stuff.

      • arrow74@lemmy.zipEnglish
        4·
        18 hours ago

        That just sounds like more of the same. I want us to stop spending money on war in the middle east entirely. No more world police bullshit.

        If we stopped giving Israel money they would either figure out how to make peace with their neighbors or they’d be attacked by them. Either way the Palestine issue would be solved.

        I don’t the US will stop meddling any time soon, but it’d be nice

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
          13·
          15 hours ago

          With the tight link between the US and Israel, I think we’d need a regime change at home before we saw any progress abroad.