A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit by Palestinian Americans who sought to force the White House to withdraw support for Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, as was widely expected based on constitutional precedent that only the political branches of U.S. government could determine foreign policy.

But, unexpectedly, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White indicated that he would have preferred to have issued the injunction were he not limited by the Constitution, and he implored the Biden administration to “examine the results of their unflagging support” of Israel.

The determination came five days after a hearing in Oakland, Calif., in which Judge White allowed the head of a humanitarian group, a medical intern and three Palestinian Americans with relatives in Gaza to tell the court that their loved ones were being slaughtered. They alleged that the U.S. government has underwritten a genocide by backing Israel’s military response to the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas.

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        10 months ago

        i support defending Israel against Iran, and prosecuting Iranian puppets in this country… Americans are already being killed by Iran, who is supported by China… why aren’t you upset about that…

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          In your head, are the 30 thousand dead, 7000 missing, 66 thousand wounded, and 2 million displaced people all Iranian puppets? That’s some protocols of the elders of zion level of genocidal bullshit.

          And the fact you’re more worried about 3 Americans than both all those Palestinians or the thousands of Israelis that were either murdered or wounded by Hamas tells everything about what kind of person that you are.

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            complain to the Israelis about their behavior, not me… in the meantime, i will get the Iranians out of my politics one way or another… it won’t be too tough, they’re really fucking stupid… the Chinese too, but they actually believe they’re clever…

            write a letter to Netanyahu about his troops… you complain to the US because you expect us to fix everything… we are trying to prevent WW3…

            Israeli fascists are responsible for their own behavior, and they will answer for it in time

            screaming like babies at the President of the United States is stupid, and disingenuous… it’s a calculated, directed intelligence operation…

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      Israel has literally killed so many innocent people in the record span of just a few months that I’m starting to wonder if the blind Israel support is coming from Republicans seeing as they support Israel a lot more than Democrats do

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        it’s a complex situation… we are trying to stop the conflict from spreading, while Iran, China and Russia are doing the opposite… the fascists in Israel are taking advantage of the situation… it’s a tough, tense situation and Americans are already dying… we have multiple carrier groups in the area… NATO is kicking off a 90,000 troop exercise right next to an active conflict…

        the people doing fake protesting in this country should be hanged as spies