Biden did this by lamenting the "heartbreaking" death and starvation of civilians in Gaza while in the same breath stating that Hamas could end all of this violence by laying down arms and surrendering those responsible for the October 7 attack. Biden said:
"Israel has a right to go after Hamas. Hamas ended this conflict by releasing the hostages, laying down arms — could end it by — by releasing the hostages, laying down arms, and surrendering those responsible for October 7th."It's heartbreaking," added Biden, referring to the genocide that he himself is actively backing and could choose to end at any time.
"This war has taken a greater toll on innocent civilians than all previous wars in Gaza combined. More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed, most of whom are not Hamas. Thousands and thousands of innocents — women and children. Girls and boys also orphaned. Nearly 2 million more Palestinians under bombardment or displacement. Homes destroyed, neighborhoods in rubble, cities in ruin. Families without food, water, medicine."
(Democrats love babbling about how "heartbreaking" Gaza is. It's their favorite thing to do. They love nothing more than to weep publicly over the death and starvation and unfathomable human suffering they themselves are directly responsible for, as though it's some kind of natural disaster and not a US-backed genocide that is only happening because this Democrat-run administration actively facilitates it.)We don't talk enough about how horrifyingly evil it is that the actual, stated position of Israel and its immensely powerful allies is that all of the killing and starvation of Palestinian civilians in Gaza is entirely the fault of Hamas, because Hamas has not acquiesced to the military demands made by Israel. In effect, it is saying "We will kill thousands and thousands of children until you give us everything we want."
I mean, imagine if Russia did that. Imagine if Putin started raining military explosives on parts of Ukraine known to be densely packed with children, and then saying the mass-scale child-killing will continue until Ukraine surrenders and that all of the child deaths are actually the fault of the Ukrainians because they still haven't given Putin everything he wants.
I think we all know that if such a thing were to happen it would be the subject of worldwide condemnation, and justifiably so. Such a tactic is not meaningfully different from lining up children on their knees on the battlefield and shooting them one by one in the back of the head until the enemy unconditionally surrenders.
They're not just doing this with airstrikes and bullets — they're doing it with food as well. Aaron Maté has a new article out titled "The Biden doctrine in Gaza: bomb, starve, deceive" which picks apart statements from White House officials about the temporary pier this administration is planning to build on Gaza's coast over the next several weeks, ostensibly to allow for the arrival of more aid into the enclave.
Maté writes the following:
"The US military pier, Biden claimed, 'will enable a massive increase in the amount of humanitarian assistance getting into Gaza every day.' His own aides acknowledge that this is a ruse. According to the Washington Post, administration officials quietly concede that 'only by securing the opening of additional land crossings would there be enough aid to prevent famine.' And given that the pier will take at minimum 30 days to complete, that '[raises] questions about how famine in Gaza will be staved off in the critical days ahead,' the New York Times notes.Maté explains that Vice President Kamala Harris recently gave a speech in which she said Hamas needs to agree to a hostage deal in order to "get a significant amount of aid in," which is the same as saying Israel and its allies will help starve Gazan civilians until Hamas capitulates to their demands.
"The White House has given the answer: rather than compel Israel to open those land crossings and prevent famine, it is instead adopting the Israeli position that the land crossings can be used as a tool of leverage against Hamas — and that Israel can control everything that gets in. In ceasefire talks, Israel has demanded that Hamas release hostages in exchange for, at best, a six-week pause to the massacre."
"The very fact that the delivery of 'a significant amount' of aid is conditional on Hamas accepting Israeli demands underscores that Israel, with US backing, is using that aid as a tool of coercion."Maté writes, noting that this directly contradicts Biden's admonishment to Israeli leaders in his State of the Union address that "Humanitarian assistance cannot be a secondary consideration or a bargaining chip."
Washington's role in the mass murder of Palestinians in Gaza makes a lot more sense when you stop looking at it as a reluctant passive witness to Israel's crimes and begin viewing it as an active participant. US officials will occasionally wag their fingers at the Netanyahu government and act like Israel's worst atrocities are being carried out against the beneficent humanitarian wishes of the United States, but if you mentally mute all the narrative spin that's being placed on this thing you just see a giant concentration camp packed full of children being murdered at mass scale by the most powerful empire that has ever existed.
Reader Comments
I have been following Rebel & True North News on reporting on protests in Toronto, Ottawa & Montreal, and they grossly distort the reporting claiming over and over that supporters of Palestinians in Gaza are supporters of Israel and what genocide on Israel, a blatant lie. I was so mad I sent a couple emails and of course they do not respond. Yesterday there was a huge protest in Ottawa I saw streamed live !
'Dear Reader'? Can you imagine a world where co-operation and mutual support had been manifested from the beginning of the conflict instead of antagonism and vituperation.
With mutual support and an inclusive non racist society the Land of Palestine/Israel would have been the most powerful and influential in the region.
The whole concept of establishing a geopolitical rule with a two thousand year old state is absurd.
Claiming land under biblical titles ( Canaan,Judea and Samaria are regions of Roman occupied Israel AD70) on a modern and settled land is always going to produce chaos. Imagine the same in Britain or the United States.
Why the west cannot stop stealing land and killing natives in other peoples homelands is really the question we need to ask ourselves in the west.
Our own attitude to other related(cousins) peoples is what I find shocking.
Those who believe in Western superiority need to look at our actual conduct.
Superior it is not.
The whole point of Britain giving up it's Empire was because the USA demanded it in the second world war. They claimed to wish to put an end to the excesses of empires everywhere.
oops?
As for this port they the American's are setting up in Gaza, it’s yet another lie, long before the sixty days it’s going to take to build this harbour, landing area, another red herring, Palestinians with the help of America and its vile partner in crime, England we will see tens of thousands of men women and children, starve to death! Dying from disease, no water, no food, no hospitals, no medicines, this is the filth you call the American dream, what hypocrisy! And still these degenerates will rain down bombs! It’s time either the Americans resolved the filth that runs their country, or the world as a whole exterminates all Americans. That’s a horrific chorus of words but come on. Who on earth can’t see the facts? Are Americans that thick uncaring and selfish? No you don’t need to answer that self incriminating question, for we all know the answer!
Well said...but I am 'Canadian' and we have our own set of misfits we need to toss out on their asses, Trudeau et al...lol.
No I do not....Been watching a Netflix series in Canada about atomic bombs, nukes and the cold war. At last count there were over 70,000 nukes between Russia and the USA. Enough to kill all life many many times over !! Yikes.
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and mostly for this reason, to have an excuse to exterminate and/or expel the Palestinians who are/were reproducing much faster than Israelis.
Then in college, fully grown adult men (!) singing "Fight, fight, fight for Florida state and victory!"
Then even older adults who should be wiser "root" for "their" team, a team which often has absolutely no connection with them whatsoever.
Now it's "USA, USA, USA!" or Go Hamas! Go Israel! Go Ukraine! Go Russia!
This isn't merely childish. This kind of prideful attachment to groups is actually evil.
By conflicting with those that follow war more war is created.
' You cannot change an existing paradigm by using the contents of that paradigm itself. Something new has to be introduced.'( Buckminster Fuller)
We all need to elect new people with a new peace agenda all over the world. I heard yesterday that half the Nations on Earth are having Elections this Year. Do not vote for the old Guard, they are the problem.
Do not vote for Billionaires or Millionaires, celebrities or Dictators anymore.
Aye, facing the truth is an adults priority, unless they avoid the truth themselves! The system works for enemies both foreign and domestic. Face it!
Socrates stated that total power always corrupts totally.
Maybe the problem is those who give them their power, the average voter is ill informed and such a sucker.
I would advise that if a candidates lips are moving they are likely to be with lies.
The voters are a last gasp hope.
Obviously a new system needs to be devised to screen the corrupt from office. We could debate what such a system might look like but it is futile at present, since it would need to be approved by the corrupt.
Think of what it took for people to fully learn the dangers of mixing politics and religion? Just considering the Inquisition, you're looking at seven centuries of absolute hell, and that's not even including all the Kings and Queens who arrogated "divine rights" to themselves. Unfortunately, the baby is being thrown out with the bathwater here - people are tending to repudiate the very idea of a divine world - but human sovereignty has still been given a needed boost.
How long will it take for people to realize that these monstrous corporate/banking entities were created out of the people's unwillingness to act as fully sovereign beings, and therefore give the money changers the rights they themselves should have? Another dark age may be in the offing. Work to help create a pocket of light in the darkness - that's the only solution available to us until more people wake up.