#Biden says there is no equivalence between the crimes committed by Israel and Hamas
I actually agree: in terms of the duration, causalities, impact on human conscience, and who’s been the provoking party, ISRAEL 🇮🇱 is definitely more than 10,000 times more guilty than Hamas
(Although he seems to be missing the point that the ICC’s jurisdiction - and the arrest warrants being sought now - is over individuals such as Netanyahu, rather than States such as 🇮🇱)
Joe #Biden has done more than arm Israel. Leaked documents reveal his own officials see him as complicit in Gaza’s devastating famine
The level of dissent within the US government agency responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and combating global hunger has been unprecedented.
“The US has provided both the military and the diplomatic support that enabled famine to emerge in Gaza,” said Jeremy Konyndyk, a former high-ranking USAID official under Presidents Obama and Biden.
“I don’t believe that the President of the United States – Israel’s most important ally and benefactor – has so little leverage that he can’t force them to take meaningful steps,” a USAID employee said.
This investigation chronicles the Biden administration’s repeated failures to act forcefully in response to months of warnings of a looming famine. Those failures continue to this day.
"Biden is suffering huge damage to his base because of his support for genocide"
"The question that must be asked again and again is, Why is an accomplished politician taking such risks with his reelection campaign by supporting a genocide?...It's the donors."
Here's a list of the main donors and their motivation. And the money ... huge amounts of money.
Joe Biden continues to fully support the Gaza genocide because he does not believe it will hurt him politically, and because he has no empathy for the Palestinians. This is the same arrogance that brought down LBJ over the Vietnam war.
@mondoweiss@palestine@israel
Not what I’m hearing: #Biden specifically speaks to #Gaza during his speech at Morehouse:
“He reminded them that he has called “for an immediate ceasefire…to stop the fighting [and] bring the hostages home.” His administration has been working for a deal, as well as to get more aid into Gaza and to rebuild it. Crucially, he added, there is more at stake than “just one ceasefire.” He wants “to build a lasting, durable peace. Because the question is…: What after?..”
#Israel / Israel Seeks US Bipartisan Backing to Block Palestinian State Recognition Amid Fears of International Pressure
Israel is concerned that if a Palestinian state is recognized internationally, it could lead to increased pressure on its own territorial claims (=illegal occupation) and potentially even the division of Jerusalem (=illegal annexation of East Jerusalem).
from #CommonDreams
Morehouse Students Show Solidarity With Gaza During #Biden Commencement Speech
"It is my stance as a #Morehouse man, nay as a human being, to call for an immediate and permanent cease-fire in the #Gaza Strip," said valedictorian DeAngelo Fletcher.
"Statisticians have debunked the data. Yet the narrative remains unchanged, even by President #Biden. Clearly, the sheer volume of the footage of suffering civilians– all projected by #Hamas, which censors pictures of dead or wounded combatants– has caused us to lose our minds. When we fought in #Afghanistan, #Syria & #Iraq, nobody debated civilian casualties. Yet when it comes to #Israel, it’s all anybody talks about"
"While it isn’t completely useless, it cannot replace overland truck deliveries of food and aid. At most it will supply 150 trucks worth of aid daily, when 500 are needed. It is a PR band aid on the gaping wound of Israeli genocidal blockage of aid to the civilian population"
"The floating pier cost $320 million, which could have fed a lot of Palestinians if the Israelis hadn’t closed off almost all aid truck routes into the Strip"
"Biden's claim that Hamas’s Oct 7 attacks were “driven by ancient desire to wipe out the Jewish people" is ahistorical and dangerous. In fact, Jewish history shows that antisemitism is a Western problem"
"Biden’s historically ignorant, wildly antisemitic statements fly in the face of Jewish anti-Zionists, and this dangerous linkage between antisemitism and anti-Zionism ignores the fact that...most Zionists are fundamentalist Christians"
“Morehouse is being used as political cover for Biden. This commencement is taking place on Malcolm X’s birthday. Morehouse is the school that Dr. Martin Luther King went to and we know he came out against Vietnam, which was also a genocidal war. Morehouse wants to blanket itself in this history, but bypass an understanding of it.”
from #CommonDreams
We Risked Our Lives to Treat Patients in Gaza. Now President Biden Must Act to Save Lives
As I think about my colleagues who put their lives at stake to save #Palestinians wounded in #Gaza, the question I must ask is: when will President #Biden force the #Israeli government to stop this slaughter?
"I can no longer in good conscience continue to represent this administration amid President Biden's disastrous, continued support for #Israel 's genocide in Gaza."
A US Department of the Interior staffer has become the first Jewish political appointee to publicly resign in protest of #US support for Israel’s #genocide.
Lily Greenberg Call, a special assistant to the chief of staff, accuses #JoeBiden of using Jews to justify US policy.
The new shipment was announced "right after the #StateDepartment admits Israel has 'likely' used #US -supplied weapons in violation of humanitarian law," said one journalist.
Nate, #Trump almost murdered #Biden during a #debate last cycle by rolling up on the stage as a biological weapon. Norms and traditions went out the window long ago.
Nate Silver:
You're supposed to be the candidate who stands up for norms and traditions and now you're ducking this tradition?
"The President will not be participating in the Commission of Presidential Debates' announced debates."
I'd go so far as to say that electing #Trump might actually strengthen the Palestinian cause in the #US, because then we'd finally have an entire major political party opposed to #Genocide.
WSJ reports that the #Biden administration notified Congress on Tuesday that it was moving forward with more than $1 billion in new #weapons deals for #Israel.