Latest Breaking News

GJGCA

(120 posts) Sat Aug 16, 2025, 01:29 PM Aug 16

State Department halts Gaza visitor visas

Source: The Hill

The State Department on Saturday said it would halt Gaza visitor visas to the U.S.

“All visitor visas for individuals from Gaza are being stopped while we conduct a full and thorough review of the process and procedures used to issue a small number of temporary medical-humanitarian visas in recent days,” the department wrote in a Saturday statement on the social media platform X.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/international/5456049-state-department-gaza-visitor-visa/

3 replies

= new reply since forum marked as read

Highlight:

State Department halts Gaza visitor visas (Original Post) GJGCA Aug 16 OP

Never again: cbabe Aug 16 #1

Pardon my cynicism (realism?) but sounds like a green light for Netanyahu to go full speed ahead... hlthe2b Aug 16 #2

Once again, cruelty is the point Bayard Aug 16 #3

cbabe

(5,569 posts)

1. Never again:

Reply to GJGCA (Original post)

Sat Aug 16, 2025, 01:40 PM

Aug 16

Holocaust Encyclopedia
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org › content › en › article › voyage-of-the-st-louis

Voyage of the St. Louis | Holocaust Encyclopedia

Jun 18, 2024Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany board the St. Louis. The ship would be denied entry into Cuba and the United States and forced to return

hlthe2b

(111,293 posts)

2. Pardon my cynicism (realism?) but sounds like a green light for Netanyahu to go full speed ahead...

Reply to GJGCA (Original post)

Sat Aug 16, 2025, 01:42 PM

Aug 16

with extermination. Don't like the term? Then STOP HIM/IT!

It is no less genocide if someone less universally hated (and who represents a people with such a storied and devastating history of experiencing the same) does it. Indiscriminate killing of women and children trapped in a war zone with enforced famine--bombed while they wait in line for medical care or desperate food supplies... What would others CHOOSE to call it?

Bayard

(26,974 posts)

3. Once again, cruelty is the point

Reply to GJGCA (Original post)

Sat Aug 16, 2025, 04:16 PM

Aug 16

Reply to this discussion