by Oui
Wed Oct 16th, 2024 at 01:47:38 PM EST
Nothing, not an iota will save Biden's a$$ and Harris on November 5th. Joe Biden and role in Gaza Genocide ... total lack of leadership and courage. No words ... very, very sad.
Another episode of kabuki theater brought to you from the White House ... FF 375 days of atrocities, vengeance, humiliation and provocations by Jewish settlers and their political cronies in the Knesset and Netanyahu's war cabinet continuing Palestinian slaughter unabated.
Old wine in new bottles ... was already known for many months.
Blinken and Austin Scold Netanyahu over Gaza Atrocities, playing Cynical Presidential Politics | Informed Comment |
Barak Ravid @Axios got the scoop. He was leaked a letter from Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant accusing them of reneging on undertakings of last April to pursue their war on Hamas in a manner consistent with the protection of innocent civilians as required by US law and by International Humanitarian Law. The two American leaders only obliquely referred to IHL, of course, since the U.S. only approves of international law when it can be used against enemies such as Vladimir Putin.
The letter is a frank admission that the extremist Israeli government now in power has been endangering civilian lives in a manner inconsistent with the Leahy Law, which requires the State Department to certify that US weaponry sold to other countries is used in a manner that, to the extent possible in war, preserves the lives of innocent civilians.
ProPublica revealed in late September that US AID had concluded that Israel had deliberately blocked deliveries of food and medicine into Gaza. This finding should have provoked a cut-off of US arms to Israel under the provisions of the Leahy Act. Blinken, however, buried the conclusions and lied about them to Congress so that he could keep the arms pipeline to Israel going.
Ironically, Blinken uses language similar to that of US AID in this week's letter, and holds these Israeli harms to civilians over Netanyahu's head, threatening a weapons cut-off if the Israelis don't stop starving Palestinians and impeding medical and other humanitarian aid.
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The obvious conclusion is that the letter is an intervention in the presidential race, with Election Day only 20 days away as I write.
The letter seems calculated to help Kamala Harris, who takes a lot of flack for her association with Biden's de facto complicity in genocide from the left and from minority voters, including but not limited to Muslim and Arab American voters. The enthusiasm gap for Harris as a result of the Democratic Party's complicity with Netanyahu's atrocities, it is alleged by some observers, could cost her the key swing state of Michigan.
... and so it should be. Cowards. Stop the war ... stop the genocide. Joe you lost ...
Record early voting has started and people's mind are made-up.
Joe left a legacy of two brutal wars and a horrific genocide in Gaza with no hope whatsoever for a two-state solution of a decades old conflict.
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