© GlenGreenwald/Locals(From l. to r): Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro
Tucker Carlson's new scathing denunciation of Ben Shapiro and allies on Israel reveals long-hidden rifts.The Trump-era American Right has carried within it largely hidden but quite massive internal conflicts that have finally exploded into public view. It was long past time for these unsustainable - and glaringly self-negating - doctrinal inconsistencies to be fully aired and confronted.
Exactly that is finally happening in the wake of the Biden administration's steadfast, unlimited financing and arming of Israel's war in Gaza, including Biden's request for an additional $14 billion for
Israel's war,
on top of the billions Israel automatically gets each year from the U.S. While Biden officials periodically leak statements of "concern" about the number of civilians Israel is killing in Gaza, largely to assuage their increasingly angry voting base, they have steadfastly refused to even consider the use of American leverage and aid to put any limits on Israeli actions.
Biden, as top Israeli officials
acknowledge, has spent his entire career as one of Israel's most devoted and steadfast supporters. His reverent speeches
defending Israel over the decades make Bill Kristol sound restrained by comparison. Over many decades, Biden is the
largest recipient of donations from the pro-Israel lobby, and for good reason. Few have been as steadfastly supportive of that foreign country. And ever since the October 7 attack on Israel, Biden has gone to extreme lengths to protect and support Israel, even
bypassing the requirement of Congressional approval to secretly send Israel all the weapons it requests and is now using
to obliterate civilian life in Gaza.
Comment: Well, this development might make one think twice about getting on an air plane. Perhaps that's the point? Only those with enough private resources to hire competent employees will be able to travel.
The deliberate downgrading of competency requirements is affecting more than just the airline industry. The rot is becoming ubiquitous, all in the name of rainbows-and-unicorns 'inclusion':