Secretary of State of the US Antony Blinken he says his government has confirmed that the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and allied forces have killed people in the war against the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAR) that began in April 2023.
Blinken cited “638,000 Sudanese people facing the worst famine in Sudan's recent history, over 30 million people in need of aid, and thousands dead” as reasons to justify this.
Despite Blinken's criticism of the RSF and its leader, Mohamed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo, the United States government continues to defend Israel and its leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, against accusations of murder.
Is the definition of genocide not universally agreed upon?
It is so.
Under the 1948 Genocide Convention, genocide is an act that aims to “destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group”.
Under this convention, the services are; killing group members; causing serious physical or mental harm to members of the group; willful destruction of public life habits that are calculated to destroy the whole body or part of it; imposing birth control measures within the group and forcibly transferring the group's children to another group.
But Blinken did not mention the Genocide Convention.
Why did the US not use this convention?
This is unknown.
Blinken made numerous references to the “tribe” of what he called the systematic killing of men and boys, including infants.
He added that RSF “deliberately targeted women and girls from other ethnic groups for rape and other forms of sexual violence”, all actions that rights groups and international activists have, in many cases, criticized Israel for.
Blinken's alleged rape and sexual abuse as justification for the RSF's genocide has been repeatedly cited as Israeli weapons used against Palestine.
Didn't the US say that Israel is not aggressing?
It has.
To this day, several rights groups and international activists criticize Israel for military violence, ethnic cleansing and genocide, while the US always defends its ally.
In November 2024, US President Joe Biden denounced the Supreme Court's issuance of war crimes warrants against Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant as “outrageous”.
The United States has also provoked other international efforts to halt Israel's offensive in Gaza.
The dispute over Israel's genocide in Gaza was brought to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) by South Africa in December 2023 and since he has joined more than 10 other countries.
US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said in January that the case was “unfounded”.
The US tried to deny Amnesty International's findings that, in December, He said that Israel is committing atrocities in Gazajoining a number of rights groups who have said the same thing.
How much evidence does the US remove?
Very much.
In addition to 45,936 people killed by Israel in Gaza and many stories about ethnic cleansingto use hunger as a weapon of waralso systematic torture and rape and sex Palestinians and Israeli soldiers.
In October, the US issued a 30-day “ultimatum” to Israel that it must do more to allow humanitarian aid to Gaza, which was starving after Israel bombed it.
A month later, famine was imminent in northern Gaza due to the “Israeli siege” and continued withholding of aid, Secretary Blinken decided to take action which was explained in his last words to Israel.
His administration, however, admitted that few, if any, expectations for increased aid were met.
What else has the US done?
In late December, the US advanced, he says he is ordering his removal about the last report that Israel's siege of northern Gaza led to long-overdue warnings for hunger relief agencies.
In July, even the Israeli authorities initially found a reason to investigate the 10 Israeli soldiers involved in a gang that abuses Palestinian prisoners in prison.
Despite this, the US seems content to show “concern” about Israel's actions, using its veto in the UN Security Council. block calls for four combat stops and taking no action against the other.
Earlier this year, the Biden administration announced they want to sell another $8bn in the hands of Israel.
