GrymEdm , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

The US’s own Leahy Law prohibits most types of aid or training from going to foreign agents who can credibly be alleged to be committing human rights violations. The US Department of State website says “The U.S. government considers torture, extrajudicial killing, enforced disappearance, and rape under color of law as GVHRs when implementing the Leahy law.” Here’s just one UN report from mid-February about “credible allegations of egregious human rights violations to which Palestinian women and girls continue to be subjected in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.” It specifically mentions extrajudicial killings and rape among other offenses, so…is US human rights law actually meaningful or not?

I suppose we’ve gotten to the level of admission where the media is calling continued illegal support “dicey”. Maybe after another few months of killing and starving civilians with Western weapons and aid we can call it “concerning” or “troubling”.