Austin, Lloyd – U.S. Defense Secretary
Updated 2024-07-15
2024-04-9 Refuting Jurists, Lloyd Austin Says US Has No Evidence of Gaza Genocide The U.S. defense secretary’s remarks came after Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other law experts around the world asserted that Israel’s Gaza onslaught meets the legal definition of genocide.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Tuesday became the latest Biden administration official to deny that Israel’s six-month bombardment, invasion, and siege of Gaza constitute a genocide.
After pro-Palestine protesters wearing T-shirts with the message “Austin’s Legacy = Genocide” interrupted a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Tuesday morning, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) asked the Pentagon chief if Israel was committing genocide in Gaza. “We don’t have any evidence of genocide being created,” Austin replied after a short pause.
After telling the defense secretary his response was “better than” the replies from CIA Director William Burns and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines—whom Cotton said “dodged that question” before the committee last month—the senator asked Austin to respond to allegations of “greenlighting genocide” in Gaza. “From the very beginning, we committed to help assist Israel in defending its territory and its people by providing security assistance…” https://www.commondreams.org/news/lloyd-austin-israel
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