Submitted 1 month ago by zero_gravitas@aussie.zone to worldnews@aussie.zone
In short:
Joe Biden has formally apologised for the US’s role in running abusive Native American boarding schools for more than a century.
Mr Biden was heckled at the event in Arizona over his support for Israel’s war in Gaza.
What’s next?
Arizona is one of the seven battleground states in US election to be held on November 5, local time.
Mr Biden faced a brief interruption when a pro-Palestinian protester shouted: “How can you apologise for a genocide while committing a genocide in Palestine?”
This reality is beyond parody.
Why the fuck does everyone suddenly want to bitch about the democrats supporting israel this close to an election. Its not like trump is any different.
This has been happening for over a year, it’s not sudden just now that there’s an election.
Its not like trump is any different.
That’s irrelevant. Just like Liberal and Labor here are both systematically supportive of the Zionist regime, just because one might prefer a party over the other doesn’t make them less worthy of criticism. No-one’s going to say ‘omg biden is complicit in genocide, im going to vote for trump instead!’, or ‘labor leadership have blood on their hands, hopefully the coalition will fix it!’ so I’m not sure what Trump has to do with this at all.
Ive just been seeing a lot more news article about it here (specifically in relation to bidan/harris) on lemmy and find a little sus the timing.
Given Australia’s own apology over stolen generations, this event was reported very poorly by the ABC. This historic apology is not newsworthy because some heckler wanted to play whataboutism. It is newsworthy in its own right. Here is a far better article about the presidents apology and some next steps to address the restoration of language and culture as well as the repatriation of remains of children lost to their families:
apnews.com/…/indigenous-boarding-schools-biden-ap…
It’s also disheartening to see that none of the comments in the thread so far are discussing the alienation and displacement of indigenous children, instead turning this moment into yet another thread about the Gaza conflict, with a dash of US election/politics thrown into the mix. Not to take anything away from the US election and the events in Gaza, but there are plenty of posts and threads discussing those matters already. Seeing this very important moment reduced into the setting for more of the same talking points feels very much like people aren’t pausing to reflect on those past wrongs. And I find that really sad.
Kryptonidas@lemmy.wtf 1 month ago
Maybe in a 100 years a future president will say sorry for supplying Israel with the weapons to destroy Gaza. Because doing something when it matters most….
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Can someone break it down like an ELI5?
I don’t really even get who the good guys or bad guys are. Like, Israel, Iran, Palestine, Gaza, Hamas…
Sounds like a 5+ way war to me, I just don’t get it. And WTF does the USA have to do with any of it?
Can’t people just live in peace?
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Brief summary?
The Germans killed Jews. Jews, having been persecuted since forever, wanted a homeland to be safe. They wanted their old homeland that was occupied by Palestinians since before electricity, the Brits didn’t see a problem and helped establish Israel in the lands that the Jews claimed God gave them and the deed is in the sacred scrolls.
The Palestinians didn’t appreciate that.
Both sides push back against one another, the Jews had everybody who wasn’t Muslim backing them and that means all of the military support from the leading name in military tech, America. Israel treats Palestinians like freed slaves in late 1800s America, they all don’t belong and are probably up to something. Good old segregation and restricting of movements.
The Palestinians form “militaries” to fight back against Jewish colonizers. They have different names at times but the big one now is Hamas. They are constantly in these build-ups and attacks, which then Israel beats the everliving shit out of Hamas. Hamas, not being a formal military, exists within the Palestinian population. This means Palestine gets wrecked when Hamas does anything because Hamas=Palestine.
Everytime Palestine gets all assertive about keeping their lands, Israel stomps them and takes more land.
Lebanon and Iran supports Palestine existing and their fight against being slaughtered. Palestinians flee to neighboring Lebanon when Israel is off bombing everything again because it is safer than dodging tanks and bombs. Hamas also flees to Lebanon because their whole thing is not wanting to die so that they can fight later.
Clearly Lebanon is also Hamas, so they catch Jewish hands throwing brass knuckles they got from 'Murica because America doesn’t have any major wars going on and we just get off on violence and our Military Industrial Complex gets so fucking feral when they don’t have something to hate-fuck for profit and fun for any length of time greater than a few years.
Iran sticks up for their friends, you guessed it, they catch hands too.
So why can’t we have peace? People don’t like it when you kill people and the only moral genocide is their genocide, it says so right here in the scrolls and it is funded by American Taxes.
GrymEdm@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There’s a LOT involved in those questions, but I’ll try to keep it brief. I’ll give a few sources, but if I start linking extensively this post is going to run very long. Just know there’s a much more info that can be easily found from sources like the UN and humanitarian agencies like Amnesty International.
timewarp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Why do something now when in 100 years you can apologize and people will still vote for your party?