One thought on “The Chris Hedges Report: Halting Biden’s Weapon Shipments to Israel”

1. The Biden administration and too-many Democratic senators/congressional representatives want it both ways: to unconditionally heavily arm the Israeli state against Palestine AND to keep the Palestine-/human-rights-supporting voters active and onside.

   But I doubt that Arabic/Palestinian/Muslim voters will collectively compromise and sell their souls by giving Biden a pass on his blatant bloodying hypocrisy towards the current mass slaughter of Palestinians by Israel.

   U.S. Republicans, meanwhile, went into their ‘Christian’ mode by withholding their political support for helping literally starving Palestinian children. (Really, what would Jesus say?!)

   Still, any American president who, quite unlike Trump, seriously tried implementing truly humane, progressive policies — notably a genuine anti-war effort, a universal guaranteed income and single-payer healthcare, a significant reduction in greenhouse-gas emissions and military spending, increasing the minimum wage while also reigning in Wall Street abuse/corruption [etcetera] — would likely be assassinated.

   Besides having to suffer and brutally die from manmade famine, there have been tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians killed by Israeli assaults. There has been a very-long-term oppressive Israeli occupation.

   This is Israel’s and the collective West’s business-as-usual perception thus inevitable non-intervention. Palestinians are considered disposable. Generally, Israel and Westerners, including our legacy news-media, have been getting accustomed to so many Palestinian deaths over many decades of violent struggle with Israel.

   For decades they have been perceived thus treated as not being of equal value to those within Israel. This may help explain the relative poverty, with Palestinian children picking through the mountains of Israeli waste basically dumped on territory annexed or on the way to being annexed. Ergo, their great suffering and deaths are somehow less worthy of our actionable concern.

   The mainstream news-media I consume daily, even the otherwise progressive outlets, are largely replacing daily Gazan deaths and suffering with relatively trivial domestic news, especially as leading stories.

   Without doubt, growing Western indifference towards the mass starvation and slaughter of helpless Palestinian civilians will only further inflame long-held Middle Eastern anger towards us. Some countries’ actual provision, mostly by the U.S., of highly effective weapons used in Israel’s onslaught will likely turn that anger into lasting hatred that’s always seeking eye-for-an-eye redress.

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