First the problem: Will Gaza be the end of Biden’s 2nd term as president? I ask myself this every day. I really deplore the American policy of sending Israel $3.3 billion a year and shipping them tons of weapons so they can kill people in Gaza or anywhere else. I really hate that it’s my tax money going to fund something that I am 100% against, and I resent Joe Biden’s policies towards Israel for putting me in that position. I hate this position. It makes me not want to vote for Joe Biden in 2024. But the other side of that is Donald Trump, who is the man who would literally destroy this country, so you can see the quandary I and thousands of other people are in. There is no way Donald Trump can ever be president again. But Gaza.
There are plenty of places online and on Telegram where you can see evidence of Israeli atrocities in their war on Gaza. (That’s no misprint. This is a war on Gaza, not on Hamas.) The Israelis have bombed and killed without targeting. Their indiscriminate warmongering is accurately described as “genocide.” These atrocities, say some people, are being covered up by the Biden administration. And we continue to send Israel money and weapons so they can do more atrocities. Does Biden even care about the politics of this, in an election year? You would think he would.
Employees in the DOJ and State Department have protested current US policy towards this war, which seems to be “Let Israel do whatever the fuck it wants” originally and has now morphed into “Do what you want but stop killing quite so many civilians”. I mean, there’s got to be a limit, even for the American government. The report of 32,000 dead people is an awful lot, especially when you consider that the original terror attack death count of Israelis in this round of Israeli wars was 1,200. There are some rumors online that not only was Netanyahu paying Qatar to fund Hamas for a long time, (something that’s a fact) but that the IDF killed many Israelis themselves during that attack. (See “Israel killed Israelis, confirms new October 7 documentary).
That’s speculation, but it’s also believable when you read about some of the evidence for that theory. I don’t know either way. The point is that the war in Gaza has morphed into complete overkill and is now genocide. We need to let Biden how unhappy we are with this, because I presume Americans are against genocide.
This article in the Guardian describes the state department employee’s reasons for quitting.
A human rights official has resigned from the US state department over Gaza, saying the Biden administration is flouting US law by continuing to arm Israel, and is hushing up evidence that the US had seen on Israeli human rights abuses.
Annelle Sheline, said she had hoped to have an influence on policy by staying at her post in the Near Eastern section of the bureau of democracy, human rights and labor, taking part in discussions, signing dissent cables and raising her concerns with her supervisor. But she had lost confidence she could do anything that would affect the flow of US arms to Israel.
“The fundamental reason was – I no longer wanted to be affiliated with this administration,” Sheline told the Guardian. “I have a young daughter. She’s not yet two, but if some day in the future, she is learning about this and knows that I was at the state department and she asked me [about it] – I want to be able to tell her that I did what I could.” . . .
On Wednesday, Gallup published a new poll showing a significant drop in American public support for Israel’s conduct of the war, from 50% in November to 36% now, with 55% disapproving of Israel’s actions.
Sheline credited this shift for helping lead to the US abstention on a UN security council resolution on Monday, allowing it to pass after the US vetoed three earlier draft texts over the nearly six months since the war started.
“I am glad to see that slight shift, but it hasn’t really made any difference to the people in Gaza yet,” Sheline said. “So it’s really too little, too late.
“Not only are these policies devastating the people of Gaza, but I think they’re also devastating the US image in the world,” she argued. “This administration came in promising to rebuild American diplomacy and America’s moral leadership after the Trump administration, but so many of these issues that the administration said were so important – including human rights – seem to be less important to this administration than the US-Israel relationship.”
More food for thought: See this video released recently by Al Jazeera.
Although now posted to YouTube, the platform has age-restricted the film. This means a YouTube account is required to click through and view the video embedded below. But the full film can also be viewed on Al Jazeera’s website without any account.
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