Israel’s bombing of the Qatari capital Doha on Tuesday marked the sixth country the powerful U.S. ally attacked so far this year.

U.S. and Israeli officials told CNN and other outlets on Tuesday that Israel — which the U.S. arms to the tune of billions of dollars each year — gave President Donald Trump’s administration advance warning before carrying out the strike. The attack drew ire from progressive members of Congress, who told The Intercept that the U.S. must stop arming Israel as it accelerates attacks around the globe.

“In the past two years, Israel has bombed nation after nation with no repurcussions—all while conducting a genocide and manufacturing a famine in Gaza using U.S. taxpayer dollars,” said Rep. Summer Lee, D-Penn. “There must be accountability for Israel’s unchecked power and destabilization of the region. The United States must implement an arms embargo immediately.”

Israel has carried out tens of thousands of attacks in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Yemen, and now Qatar since the October 7 Hamas attacks, according to data from the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project. In the last three days, Israel bombed three residential buildings in Gaza City and dropped leaflets ordering residents to evacuate.

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      Yes, that’s a good analogy worth elaborating on. That places Hamas and other Palestinian resistance groups in the position of the numerous WW2 resistance movements like the French resistance, Polish Home Army, and Jewish resistance who were attacking Nazi forces, sabotaging infrastructure, and sometimes more terroristic tactics involving civilians.

      Philosopher Quassim Cassam recently wrote an article examining the idea of justifiable terrorism as part of armed resistance. He provides a framework and engages with the most generous possibilities of the idea. While he’s not the first to explore justifiable terrorism, he does examine this very comparison of WWII resistance and other movements like al-Qaeda and the recent Oct 7 attack by Hamas: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12115-024-00975-9

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        Why are you being disingenuous? You compare hamas leaders to hitler but the only valid comparison is israel being nazi germany and netenyahu being hitler

        Comparing hamas leaders with russian leaders is also not accurate since russia is the invader, hamas are palestinians that they and their ancesstors was oppressed for 77 years.

        I oppose assasinating putin just like i oppose assasinating netenyahu unlike you who said you wouldn’t oppose putin assasination but want netenyahu to just be brought to justice by the country who still hold the ethrnic cleanning and genocidal ideology.

        Why you ignore that the guy they tried to kill was the negociator? You support the death of the guy responsible to find a deal to end the genocide and release the hostages yet you.clsim to be for peace