"This is a direct result of the impunity Washington has provided Israel," said one analyst.
Belgian officials expressed outrage Thursday after Israeli forces reportedly bombed the office building of the Belgian Agency for Development Cooperation in the Gaza Strip, an attack that came after Belgium declined to join the U.S. and more than a dozen other countries in cutting off funding to the United Nations' Palestinian refugee agency.
The timing of the attack on the Belgian office building raised eyebrows, with observers pointing to the nation's status as one of the handful of Western countries not suspending aid to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in response to Israel's allegation that a dozen of the agency's employees took part in the October 7 attacks.
The US did the same thing during the whole "Freedom Fries" BS.
We were running a bombing run on Iraq, France denied us use of their airspace so we flew ALL THE WAY around France, ran the attack and "accidentally" bombed the French embassy in Iraq.
Oopsie.
Joke at the time was "Maybe our pilots would have had better aim if they had had a little more sleep!"
The U.S. bombed the Chinese embassy in Serbia during the Kosovo War. I’m not sure if there was a direct reason but I remember there being a spy thing. Like a Chinese spy accessed some sensitive documents or something like that.
This should show anybody that Belgium did the right thing. The ICJ ordered Israel to provide humanitarian aid, instead on the same day they use threats, bribes, corruption to get multiple countries to cut off humanitarian aid! This is further evidence of genocidal intent!
And then they carry out a clear act of terrorism against those who do not make themselves complicit in their genocide!
They bombed the power stations, water supply, hospitals, 70% of all housing. If Israel is allowed to continue hundreds of thousands are going to starve or die of thirst or diseases. Or infections because on top of the 30.000+ there are many times more wounded.
What an absolute horror... they have taken 30 eyes for each eye, 30 teeth for each tooth, plus an extra 1500 children's legs.
Israel is a terrorist state. The guys who assassinated Yitzhak Rabin are literally running their government. Their slow rolling subjugation of Palestinians is now a blatant genocide.
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Previous posts on this topic were removed to poor sourcing, but in this case CommonDreams is impeccable.
lemmy.world has had to beef up auto removal tools due to some jack-wagon posting child pornography. That's the kind of garbage YOU don't want to see and the mod team shouldn't HAVE to see.
Bombing a building belonging to the government of a member of NATO and the EU? If literally any other Middle East country had done that, they would be invaded and bombed back to the stone age by every ally, led by the US.
Not the Israeli apartheid government, though. They get to do whatever the fuck they want to whomever the fuck they want with no repercussions because AIPAC and groups like them are bribing the majority of American politicians and the US government forces the rest of the world to do whatever the fuck THEY want! 🤬🤬🤬
Was there a possibility to hurt a Belgian official? No. Did they specifically try to hit the Belgian office? Probably also not. Unless we get some crazy leaks I don't think this should or will have any consequences whatsoever.
fun thing about the whole "UNRWA sponsors Hamas" thing, Israel has failed to provide any evidence of the claim but pro-genocide governments all around the world sentenced a lot of innocent people to death based on the claim anyway.
Remember when Israel said Hamas was beheading babies? The president of the United States signal boosted that claim, then his office had to walk it back when it turned out to be false.
I'm absolutely fucking ashamed to have any Jewish blood in me.
My polish grandparents did NOT survive a holocaust just so Jews could holocaust another people... Live for the world to see... With zero repercussions.
I'm glad my grand parents are dead. This atrocity would've killed them.
Its not anti-Semitism to say this.
Fuck isreal. (they don't deserve a capital in their name)
Cleary the Jewish state has failed. It's obviously run by Nazi corporation or something. Fuck them. I hope the wrath of their God comes down in them in biblical (torah-Ian?) fashion. Maybe a few pluages. The death of all first born. Something to that effect.
And I'm probably banned now.
I'd just like to point out I'm Jewish (by decent) . But nothing isreal is doing is in the Jewish faith. (although, historically not unlike them)
You know, the first news reported that Israel bombed an area and the Belgium empty office was a collateral casualty.
Yet here we are now at malicious intent.
Have you considered the idea that in their quest to level Gaza, which building belongs to whom never even crossed Israel's mind?
Or that their military is full of incompetent buffoons?
If I bombed your house a d destroyed it, would you be totally okay with it if I told you there was no malicious intent and I was just trying to murder your neighbour instead?
Well, if my neighbors trying to start a war with you, I would move from them or prepared to get butt fucked (assuming you are 10x my neighbors strength). If I believe my neighbor can protect me and he cannot who am I to complain?
Yeah maybe it's an accident related to a complete lack of concern for which building they bomb, or maybe it's not an accident and that's why it's timed so conveniently. Who cares, fuck Israel either way.
If they hadn't built up so much bad will and distrust recently people probably wouldn't rush to this conclusion. But they have. So they get to lie in the bed they made
Oh I agree. But if we start using unproven scenarios to further demonize them, then we do no better than what they did to Palestine. It's hypocritical and follows the path they're taking. So what's the point then?
Is arguing "they're not malicious in their enthusiastic use of bombs, merely incompetent" not worse? It implies they don't know how to do better, and thus are a very reckless uncontrolled threat, compared to just one that chooses to be evil.
If the incident was a one off I could see that as true, like the US boat during the six day war when everything was hectic as hell and all communications had seemingly been cutoff. This is unfortunately not an isolated incident, and the benefit if the doubt should not be given.