Mideast War blowback

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There is no obvious wish that Americans want. Like with most things Americans are split on this issue.

A few things to consider here. People who are dissatisfied protest. Our social media makes it easier to not only to organize protests but to organize multifaceted protests in multiple places. To make it appear that there is widespread mass fury that it is futile to resist which is often an exaggeration of reality.

It is widely reported that there is a generation gap about supporting Israel. The more Pro Israeli older demographics vote at at a higher rate then younger people and have more discretionary to contribute to politicians.

Hope you are not speaking from a bias position ? . As mass slaughtering of humans by mechanisms of warfare.
One would hope that these people that actually are protesting are amongst normal humans that might find ,killing of people to be abhorrent even digusting to average humans ? but I am obviously not able to speak for everyone.

Whatever biases ASPartOfMe might hold probably don't override his ability to read a poll.

Anything Biden does (including nothing) will piss too many people off so he's kinda paralyzed.

Thousands of demonstrators converged opposite the White House on Saturday to call for an end to Israeli military action in Gaza, while children joined a pro-Palestinian march through central London as part of a global day of action against the longest and deadliest war between Israel and Palestinians in 75 years.

People in the U.S. capital held aloft signs questioning President Joe Biden’s viability as a presidential candidate because of his staunch support for Israel in the nearly 100-day war against Hamas. Some of the signs read: “No votes for Genocide Joe,” “Biden has blood on his hands” and “Let Gaza live.”

Vendors were also selling South African flags as protesters chanted slogans in support of the country whose accusations of genocide against Israel prompted the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Netherlands, to take up the case.

The plight of children in the Gaza Strip was the focus of the latest London march, symbolized by the appearance of Little Amal, a 3.5-meter (11.5-foot) puppet originally meant to highlight the suffering of Syrian refugees.

The puppet had become a human rights emblem during an 8,000-kilometer (4,970-mile) journey from the Turkish-Syrian border to Manchester in July 2001.

A pro-Israel rally was set to take place in London on Sunday.

The London march was one of several others being held in European cities including Paris, Rome, Milan and Dublin, where thousands also marched along the Irish capital’s main thoroughfare to protest Israel’s military operations in the Palestinian enclave.

Protesters waved Palestinian flags, held placards critical of the Irish, U.S. and Israeli governments and chanted, “Free, free Palestine.″

In Rome, hundreds of demonstrators descended on a boulevard near the famous Colosseum, with some carrying signs reading, “Stop Genocide.”

At one point during the protest, amid the din of sound effects mimicking exploding bombs, a number of demonstrators lied down in the street and pulled white sheets over themselves as if they were corpses, while others knelt beside them, their palms daubed in red paint.

Many hundreds of demonstrators gathered in Paris’ Republic square to set off on a march calling for an immediate cease-fire, an end to the war, a lifting of the blockade on Gaza and to impose sanctions on Israel. Marching protesters waved the Palestinian flag and held aloft placards and banners reading, “From Gaza to Paris. Resistance.”

In a sizable demonstration urging a ceasefire in Gaza, the crowd tossed bloodied dolls, prompting law enforcement protecting the People’s House to don riot gear.

The Secret Service later confirmed that the temporary fencing sustained damage but was promptly repaired after the incident. This evening’s protest marks the second-largest in support of Gaza outside the White House in Washington since the commencement of the war.

Due to the disruptions caused during the rally, White House staff and journalists had to be evacuated from the vicinity. Protesters advocating for a ceasefire employed poignant symbols to convey their message. At one juncture, women clad in Palestinian attire staged a sit-down protest while cradling bloodied dolls wrapped in sheets.

Thousands of anti-Israel protesters descended on Manhattan to demand a cease-fire in Gaza on Monday, with some even targeting a respected hospital for cancer patients over its alleged “complicity in genocide.”

The protesters shouted “Shame!” at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center while patients received treatment on the Upper East Side before targeting a Starbucks and a McDonald’s restaurant they reportedly accused of making “meals for genocide.”

“Make sure they hear you. They’re in the window,” an organizer said on a bullhorn outside Sloan Kettering, according to footage posted on social media.

Someone in the crowd beat a drum as scores chanted: “MSK shame on you, you support genocide, too.”

The demonstrators took time during the event, advertised as a “Flood Manhattan for Gaza MLK Day march for healthcare,” to berate those at the cancer center, which is also a pediatric hospital.

“What about refusing to acknowledge an attack on Palestinian people, and especially the healthcare system, shows any form of compassion or respect for health?” one speaker said, according to National Review.

“Shame, shame, shame,” other protesters shouted in response.

In a nearby scuffle, one protester was thrown to the pavement by multiple cops near Gracie Mansion as other Palestinian supporters swarmed the scene, according to footage of the arrest posted on social media.

Cops ordered people to back off while protesters demanded their names, the footage shows. Three people, including a 16-year-old boy, were arrested during the protest, cops said. Charges were still pending early Tuesday.

During the march from Union Square to Grace Mansion, protesters also targeted Mt. Sinai Medical Center at 98th Street for “supporting Zionism” and “genocide“.

Police had to block entrances at various buildings on the medical center campus, forcing patients and visitors to use a different door.

“Mount Sinai you can’t hide, you support genocide,” the protesters chanted.

One anti-Israel protester, 18, told The Post the images of Gaza have pulled at her heartstrings and motivated her to call for a cease-fire even though she isn’t Palestinian.

Protesters once again called Israel a “racist state” and “charged” them with “genocide.” A few climbed atop the wall of Central Park at East 103rd Street and 5th Avenue and waved Palestinian flags.

One Jewish resident on the Upper East Side told The Post she was “terrified” after a pair of cops had to escort her and her small dog out of a chanting crowd near East 87th Street.

“I thought I was in Germany in 1939,” said the 74-year-old resident, who declined to give her name.

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What am I missing in the article?

What is the hospital doing that the protesters think (rightly or wrongly) is "being complicit with genocide in Gaza"?

Protest leader Nerdeen Kiswani, who leads Within Our Lifetime, called the hospital “another complicit institution” as the protesters walked past, with the crowd erupting in shouts of “Shame.”

“Make sure they hear you, they’re in the windows,” Kiswani told the crowd, before leading the rally in chants of, “MSK, shame on you, you support genocide too.”

Video of the incident showed what appeared to be children watching the protest from within the hospital.

Kiswani wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that the protest targeted the hospital because it had accepted a donation from billionaire investor Ken Griffin after he spoke out against Harvard students who signed a letter blaming Israel for the October 7 attack

Kiswani wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that the protest targeted the hospital because it had accepted a donation from billionaire investor Ken Griffin after he spoke out against Harvard students who signed a letter blaming Israel for the October 7 attack

The Senate tabled a resolution from Bernie Sanders that would have required the State Department to report on whether Israel has violated human rights in its ongoing war with Hamas, revealing the ongoing division between various blocs of the Democratic Party.

The vote to table the resolution, called under the Foreign Assistance Act and requiring a simple majority for passage, passed 72-11. Democrats sided with the chamber’s Republicans in defeating the resolution amid a conflict that’s killed more than 23,000 people in Gaza, by recent estimates.

“If you believe that the [bombing] campaign has been indiscriminate, as I do, then we have a responsibility to ask this question,” Sanders (I-Vt.) said on the floor last week. “If you believe Israel has done nothing wrong, then this information should support that belief.”

Only after that report landed — or if the State Department failed to meet the 30-day deadline to deliver it — would the U.S. be able to freeze or alter aid to Israe

Minority Leader Mitch McConnell slammed the resolution as an attempt at “tying the hands of a close ally locked in a necessary battle against savage terrorists” and a gift to “left-wing, anti-Israel activists” in remarks on the Senate floor.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a GOP foreign policy hawk, slammed the resolution as an effort that would “empower the terrorist” and “maybe the most tone deaf thing in the history of the Senate.”

“To the left, what are you thinking?” he asked on the floor. “A ceasefire with Hamas only allows Hamas to regroup.”

But the defeat of the resolution wasn’t due to Republicans alone. In a statement, Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) said that while he is “deeply concerned” about the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and how Israel is conducting its campaign, he would not support the Sanders effort.

I feel like that's a bit of a stretch of logic.

Three people were attacked in Leicester Square, London, “for being Jewish” in the early hours of Sunday morning after they were overheard “speaking Hebrew”.

The three victims, all in their twenties, were enjoying a night out when they were attacked by a group of men.

A 28-year-old woman, Tehilla, told The Telegraph she was “physically attacked” and called the Metropolitan Police 10 times “afraid she was going to die” but that police did not attend.

She was out with two male friends, both 25, who it is understood suffered blows to the head.

The group were heading towards a nightclub when they were accosted for speaking in Hebrew but they “walked away because they wanted to stay out of trouble”.

They were later threatened around 2am by people “swearing in Arabic”.

“They heard us talking and said, ‘are you Jewish?’” Tehilla, who has lived in London since she was 13, told The Telegraph. “I said ‘yes, I’m Jewish,’ and then they started chanting ‘Free Palestine’, and f--- Jews, all this kind of swearing at us.

“So we just tried not to get into trouble, to walk away, but they started following us and then all of a sudden, it started with like two or three guys, and all of a sudden, they called all their friends and 15 to 20 guys started attacking us physically.”

She said she had tried to intervene but “they started attacking me as well”.

’They don’t really care’
“I hurt my leg, they punched me in the neck,” she said. “I tried to run away and I called the police so many times, at least 10 times and I kept crying to them, ‘I’m a girl, there’s a group of guys attacking me and my friends because I’m Jewish, please can you come, I’m scared I’m going to die’.

“They don’t really care. They kept saying ‘I’m sorry, it takes some time, you are not the only one that called tonight’,” she said, adding that she “never thought this would happen in London”.

It’s understood the police attended the scene 28 minutes after being called. They arrived at Tehilla’s house around 6pm on Sunday, some 16 hours after the first call, and are treating the incident as a hate crime.

The Community Security Trust, a charity to support and protect Jewish people in Britain, said it would be “raising” the handling of the incident with the police.

A friend of the victims who wished to remain anonymous said they visited them at the hospital in North London where they were for a few hours and that the police “never showed up” despite claiming they would.

“We believe there’s a two-tier police situation. The police are not tackling the weekly hate marches, they are not tackling antisemitism,” they told The Telegraph.

“The feeling for the Jewish community is that the leadership of the police, the government do not care about us,” they added. “The climate is very very distressing for the British Jewish community.’”

Det Supt Lucy O’Connor said: “We are investigating this incident as an anti-Semitic hate crime.

“I know how upsetting such inexcusable violence is for anyone who was injured or who witnessed the incident, and also for the wider community. I share their concerns.

“Officers arrived at the scene some 28 minutes after they were called. Of course, I wish we could have come to their aid sooner.

“I can assure Londoners, tackling anti-Semitic crime is a priority for the Met. There is no place for hate in our city.”

“The incident is being treated as a hate crime. Officers will speak with the victim to take a statement and identify any other victims and witnesses.”

It's not a stretch of logic to say that Netanyahu shares the blame.

Not at all, but it is a stretch to say because a hospital accepted a donation that they're complicit in Israel's campaign of ethnic cleansing.