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US political leaders rally behind Israel after Nasrallah killing

US political leaders rally behind Israel after Nasrallah killing

Israel

Israel Keeps Killing US Citizens. Joe Biden Doesn’t Care.

Compare the response to Israel’s murder of a US citizen in the West Bank to the response to Hamas’s killing of a US citizen hostage last week, and the takeaway is clear: arming Israel is more important to Joe Biden than even the life of an American.

Israel Keeps Killing US Citizens. Joe Biden Doesn’t Care.

Israel, Israel Crimes, Uncategorized

Biden, Harris, and the Brutal Truth of Dead Hostages in Gaza

However the hostages died—Hamas initially indicated they were killed by Israeli gunfire, the Israeli army says they were executed at close range just before an attempt was made to free them—the blame for their deaths has settled firmly on Benjamin Netanyahu and the ultra-right-wing clique that props up his government.

Biden, Harris, and the Brutal Truth of Dead Hostages in Gaza

America

Biden’s Cruel & Orwellian Remarks on Gaza at the DNC

The speech that referred to Palestinian suffering was a journey into a universe of political guile from a president who had just approved sending $20 billion more weapons to Israel, writes Norman Solomon.

The Bridge to nowhere

“We’ll keep working, to bring hostages home, and end the war in Gaza, and bring peace and security to the Middle East,” Biden told the cheering delegates. “As you know, I wrote a peace treaty for Gaza. A few days ago I put forward a proposal that brought us closer to doing that than we’ve done since October 7th.”

Biden’s Cruel & Orwellian Remarks on Gaza at the DNC

August 20, 2024

Kamala Harris, Uncategorized

Harris Is Better Than Biden on Gaza—But She Must Go Further

Harris Is Better Than Biden on Gaza—But She Must Go Further

Informed Comment

The Tortilla Curtain

No matter how many times Greg Abbott and Trump lie about her being a failed “border czar,” Harris’ responsibility was to mitigate the root causes of migration, which, unsurprisingly, she accomplished. Initiatives established by the Biden Administration and instituted by Harris have included numerous investments in jobs for the region by American corporations.

  1. Gap committed to increasing its material sourcing from Central America, aiming for $150 million and is expected to create 5,000 additional jobs in the region​.
  2. Visa plans to invest $270 million over the next five years to integrate more people and small- to medium-sized businesses into the global financial system​
  3. AgroAmerica, a family-owned food corporation is investing $100 million across several projects, including a food ingredients refinery, a banana plantation, and an avocado plantation and processing plant, which will create 1,000 permanent jobs​ with living wages.
  4. Nespresso (Nestlé) is supporting over 7,500 coffee producers with regenerative agriculture practices and training​​.
  5. Target has committed to increasing its spending by $300 million in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras by 2033.
  6. Columbia Sportswear plans to create over 6,900 jobs in the region by purchasing up to $200 million in products​​.
  7. Millicom is investing an additional $350 million by 2025 to expand and maintain its mobile and broadband networks​ in the region.

Those are plain and stubborn facts, not the political untruths being spread by Abbott and Trump. Lying, of course, has worked effectively in modern American politics, but there is a rising hope it’s time is almost done.

The Tortilla Curtain

Israel

Biden must end the Gaza War Now

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Presidents have two major legacies, on domestic policy and on foreign policy. Big foreign policy mistakes can throw even gargantuan […]

Like LBJ, Biden let a Catastrophic Foreign Conflict Stain his Domestic Legacy: He must end the Gaza War Now

Israel, Uncategorized

Netanyahu proven to keep America on a string
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with U.S. President Joe Biden in Tel Aviv, October 18, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

For 15 years, the Israeli prime minister has proven his ability to scuttle political agreements — while never losing the United States’ backing.

Netanyahu’s time-tested strategy to outmaneuver Biden

American Politics

Listen to him

So, what is in a name? Not much, instead, what Trump says or doesn’t say should be the focal point of this presidential campaign. Donald Trump has not said he will accept the outcome of the 2024 election if he loses. Indeed, he said there would be a “bloodbath” if he loses the election, so Mike Pence may wish to stay home on January 6 2025. Donald Trump said he would encourage Russia to do “whatever the hell they want” to any NATO member, so it is safe to say Vladimir Putin is rooting for Trump to win the 2024 Presidential Election. Then there is Donald Trump’s desire to be a dictator, even only walking it back to one day (that is all a dictator needs), as well as using Adolf Hitler’s rhetoric of referring to Latin American people as being vermin. Donald Trump’s stated economic agenda of reducing taxes, including abolishing corporate tax, has been dismissed by economists and business leaders as nonsensical and will increase inflation, not to mention the economic disaster he caused during his first term.

Joe Biden is right: Listen to what Donald Trump says, and what you hear will terrify you.

Listen to him

Israel

Netanyahu Again Claims The U.S. Is Withholding Arms Shipments, Days After Washington Denies It | HuffPost Latest News
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His Lips Are Moving
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet that there had been a “dramatic drop” in U.S. weapons deliveries for Israel’s war effort in Gaza.

Source: Netanyahu Again Claims The U.S. Is Withholding Arms Shipments, Days After Washington Denies It | HuffPost Latest News

Israel

‘They’ve Done It Again’: Israeli Strikes Kill Dozens in Tents Near Rafah – ScheerPost

 

Biden “must stop sending weapons to Israel,” Nina Turner, a senior fellow at the Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy, declared in response to the Friday attack. “This is egregious.”

Source: ‘They’ve Done It Again’: Israeli Strikes Kill Dozens in Tents Near Rafah – ScheerPost

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Biden Team Ignores Israel’s History of Deceit and Deception – CounterPunch.org

Democracy wedged between Israel and the Zionist Lobby in America

Netanyahu has spoken privately about his ability to manipulate Democratic administrations because he has the power of the Jewish lobby behind him, and Democratic presidents are fearful of antagonizing the Jewish vote and Jewish fund raising on behalf of  Democrats.  He has insulted American presidents, vice presidents, and secretaries of state over the years, and has never missed an opportunity to demonstrate that he has the upper hand in negotiations with the United States.  Netanyahu has always played hard ball with the United States.  Now, it’s time for the United States to do the same.

Source: Biden Team Ignores Israel’s History of Deceit and Deception – CounterPunch.org

Israel

Former Official: Biden State Dept. Bending US Law to Send Israel Weapons – ScheerPost

The Biden administration is in “non-compliance” with a U.S. law regarding foreign military assistance in allowing Israeli forces to dodge scrutiny over their brutality against Palestinians and otherwise, according to a new, scathing analysis by a former top State Department official.

Source: Former Official: Biden State Dept. Bending US Law to Send Israel Weapons – ScheerPost

Israel

Joe Biden Still Won’t Say No to Israel

For Israel, there are no clear consequences if it rejects the plan. Biden has not said he would cut off any form of aid. (Ceasefire Resolution)

Players on all sides have been shocked by the approach of the Biden administration. The Israeli government has been surprised by what a long tether it has been given.

Source: Joe Biden Still Won’t Say No to Israel

Israel

Complicity in Genocide – CounterPunch.org

How have the international legal institutions addressed complicity in other cases of genocide? Could the complicity provisions apply to the United States and its leaders for assisting Israel in a war on Gaza that has cost so many thousands of civilian lives?

When the time comes for accountability, Biden, Blinken and Austin could find themselves charged with complicity to genocide under the ICC, the ICJ and/or U.S. federal jurisdiction.

Source: Complicity in Genocide – CounterPunch.org

Israel

How Trump and Netanyahu are Tag-Teaming Biden on Gaza

Biden’s passive-aggressive approach to Gaza is working against him on two fronts. His unqualified support for Israel alienates many progressive voters in the US (including Jews), who recognize the atrocity at hand. Yet he is so patronizing towards Jews that his policies prompted a Jewish employee of the Interior Dept. to resign in protest. In a column in The Guardian, Lily Greenberg Call said, “The president has weaponized the idea of Jewish safety to justify the atrocity in Gaza. I could no longer stand by. I resigned on Wednesday, 15 May – the 76th anniversary of the Nakba – because I could no longer serve at the pleasure of a president who refuses to stop another catastrophe.” She added, “Each day, I see photos of those displaced in Gaza, and I am reminded of my own family’s memory of loved ones killed in the Shoah – which, in turn, reminds me of the Nakba: the tragedy that occurred in 1948 when  . . . 700,000 Palestinians were displaced from their homeland for the formation of today’s modern Israel. Shoah and Nakba mean the same thing in Hebrew and Arabic: catastrophe.” Meanwhile, the current Israeli offensive has displaced over 1 million people. This podcast of Lily Greenberg Call encapsulates many of the objections to Biden’s management of the crisis. She said, “We’ve seen the president continue to express unconditional support for Israel in Gaza, and using my community, the Jewish community as the justification for that – saying, ‘what’s happening to Palestinians in Gaza is necessary to keep the Jewish community safe. . . . It’s also disastrous for the Jewish communities around the world.”

Source: How Trump and Netanyahu are Tag-Teaming Biden on Gaza

Israel, Israel Crimes

Biden and Congress Are Destroying International Law for Israel – ScheerPost

Colonialism failed indigenous Australians who have had a continuous genetic and lived connection to the land for 75 years. Their land rights were usurped and unrecognized from 1778- 1992. Australians recently had the opportunity to recognize and reverse the injustice done in the referendum on the Voice but voted “No”.

Zionists have been Colonizing and voting “No” at the point of a gun continuously for less than 100 years and have been doing it in the 21st Century with the support of America in denial of the majority of nations and peoples of the world

Whether it is through more subtle means, as Biden prefers, or the all-out and blatant assault on the rule of law preferred by Republicans, the end result will be the same. This is a moment of truth for the ICC and for international law in general. The world has already failed Gaza, as it has failed Palestine for a century. If there can at least be some justice after the fact, there might at least be something to build a better world on.

Source: Biden and Congress Are Destroying International Law for Israel – ScheerPost

Israel

If you can’t even elect a candidate who’ll end a genocide, how real is your “Democracy”? – Pearls and Irritations
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The Biden administration has reportedly approved of an Israeli assault on Rafah, the last slightly safe city in the Gaza Strip, and is openly preparing to work with Congress to punish the International Criminal Court for seeking arrest warrants of Israeli officials for war crimes. Biden is a monster who belongs in a cell at The Hague.

Source: If you can’t even elect a candidate who’ll end a genocide, how real is your “Democracy”? – Pearls and Irritations

American Politics, American War

Tin Pot Dictators and Tin Foil Hats – » The Australian Independent Media Network

But is that all Biden is banking on?

Dan Patrick was right about one thing, though. The majority of Americans, ruling class or not, do want Trump to disappear. Forever, and that’s a long, long time.

Source: Tin Pot Dictators and Tin Foil Hats – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Fight against Fake News, Fighting Fake News

Old Dog Thought- Training the Zionist mindset has been a long-term Israeli institutionalised project. That’s resulted in an ultra-fascist psyche

Fighting Fake News with REAL, 18/5/24, Aussie Future Fund, Macqarie Bank, World War 111, Jewish Council, Biden, 700000 Palestinians,

Israel, Israel Crimes

Israel Wants Endless War. Joe Biden Is Going Along for the Ride.

TOPSHOT - Israeli army main battle tanks and other military vehicles are positioned in southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip on May 9, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict in the Palestinian territory between Israel and the Hamas movement. (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)

The legendary Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz, whose works remain an influence on U.S. military officers today, wrote in his famous 19th-century treatise “On War” that “war is merely the continuation of politics by other means.” A military general himself advising on how best to wage an armed conflict, Clausewitz nonetheless reminded his readers that the purpose of war is to achieve political goals, not to pursue violence as end to itself, or as a wholesale substitute for diplomacy.

Clausewitz’s words would have been well-heeded by the U.S. and Israel before the start of the current war in the Gaza Strip, which has now reached a painful yet predictable impasse. So far, tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed or wounded, Israel now faces genocide charges at the International Court of Justice, and Hamas control is already returning to parts of Gaza previously declared conquered by Israel.

Source: Israel Wants Endless War. Joe Biden Is Going Along for the Ride.

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As Biden talks tough and support for a two-state solution grows, Gaza descends further into a humanitarian abyss – ABC News

Hamas loves Joe Biden — or so says Israel’s powerful Minister for National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir.

Joe Biden has engaged in “an anti-Semitic lie” — or so says Israel’s influential Minister for Finance, Bezalel Smotrich.

These two men are kingmakers in Israeli politics. They form part of the character of the Israeli government.

And these men are not just far-right extremists but, in fact, terrorists according to Ami Ayalon, who ran Israel’s security service Shin Bet.

Source: As Biden talks tough and support for a two-state solution grows, Gaza descends further into a humanitarian abyss – ABC News

Israel

Biden had hoped to send a quiet message, then Israel leaked it

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and US President Joe Biden.

Washington: The message was not getting through. Not through the phone calls or the emissaries or the public statements or the joint committee meetings. And so, frustrated that he was being ignored, US President Joe Biden chose a more dramatic way of making himself clear to Israeli leaders. He stopped sending the bombs.

Source: Biden had hoped to send a quiet message, then Israel leaked it

Israel

Biden is Risking his Election, and the Country’s Fate, by alienating the Youth with his Embrace of Netanyahu’s War

CNN reports ominously this week that “Biden is actually 11 percentage points behind Trump among young voters 18-34 in a head-to-head match in a CNN poll conducted by SSRS and released over the weekend.”

Source: Biden is Risking his Election, and the Country’s Fate, by alienating the Youth with his Embrace of Netanyahu’s War

Israel, Israel Crimes

US Working To Prevent ICC Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu – ScheerPost

Haaretz reported that the Israeli government is working under the assumption that arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, and IDF Chief-of-Staff Herzi Halevi could be issued as soon as this week. The report said that the US is already engaged in an effort to block the warrants.

The US backed the ICC issuing an arrest warrant for Putin

Source: US Working To Prevent ICC Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu – ScheerPost

Israel

US Reportedly Working to Stop ICC From Issuing Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu | Common Dreams

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant

“There is absolutely no reason for Biden to be involved in this,” said one analyst. “But once again, Biden steps in to protect Netanyahu from the consequences of the war crimes he commits.”

Source: US Reportedly Working to Stop ICC From Issuing Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu | Common Dreams

Israel

Biden, Netanyahu and the golden rule – Pearls and Irritations

USA, Iran and Israel flag together on a textured background. Diplomatic

Ultimately Netanyahu is likely to be stymied by one factor which operates in both countries but which he is unable to control: domestic public opinion. In the West, including the United States, it has turned decisively against Israel, even if the spat with Iran becomes a temporary distraction.

He may have forgotten Gabriel Kolko’s golden rule that domestic politics ultimately trumps foreign policy.

Source: Biden, Netanyahu and the golden rule – Pearls and Irritations

Israel

US declines Israel’s invitation to start WW3 (for now) – Pearls and Irritations

USA flag with soldiers and the Statue of Liberty

Biden could end all this with one phone call. The fact that he doesn’t means he’s a monster, and no amount of mass media reports about how “concerned” and “frustrated” he is regarding Israel’s actions will ever change that.

Source: US declines Israel’s invitation to start WW3 (for now) – Pearls and Irritations

Israel, Israel Crimes

A Speculation About Biden, Trump, Israel, the USA and Gaza Politics – CounterPunch.org

Then Vice President Joe Biden visit to Israel March 2016 Meet with PM Benjamin Netanyahu

[1] The Zionist Lobby (AIPAC et al.) is stringing President Biden along with just enough money to keep him “in line” with Israel’s demands—but The Lobby much prefers Trump, to whom they may be giving even more money.

Source: A Speculation About Biden, Trump, Israel, the USA and Gaza Politics – CounterPunch.org

Israel

Netanyahu, Empowered by Biden’s Grant of Impunity, baits Iran into his genocidal Gaza War

Instead, Biden and his allies declined to condemn Netanyahu’s action, continuing the North Atlantic insouciance toward Israeli war crimes and continuing the implementation of their double standard whereby International Humanitarian Law applies only to white people. That is, there is not as much difference between Trumpian white nationalism and Biden’s foreign policy as it might seem on the surface, though Trump is of course far worse.*

Source: Netanyahu, Empowered by Biden’s Grant of Impunity, baits Iran into his genocidal Gaza War

Israel

Opinion | The Mutually Reinforcing American and Israeli Empires | Common Dreams

Joe Biden Benjamin Netanyahu

If Biden’s people privately object to some Israeli off-the-wall slaughter of courageous journalists, United Nations staff, aid workers, patients in hospitals, and the starvation of babies, Netanyahu can softly say to Biden and Blinken, “Joe, Tony, why don’t you take up your complaints with OUR Congress.”

Source: Opinion | The Mutually Reinforcing American and Israeli Empires | Common Dreams

Israel, Israel Crimes

Biden Is Undermining the UN to Protect Israel’s War

US claims that this week’s cease-fire resolution is “nonbinding” are highly doubtful, say many international law experts. Worse, they may be part of a broader US effort to delegitimize the UN.

Source: Biden Is Undermining the UN to Protect Israel’s War

Israel, Israel Crimes

The United States and the Middle East: the Politics of Miscalculation – CounterPunch.org

The U.S. experience in the Middle East is a classic study of political and military miscalculation leading to strategic failure.  President Joe Biden’s political support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which is being sorely tested, and his military support for Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), which is making the United States complicit in Israel’s genocidal campaign, is the latest and worst example of U.S. miscalculation.  Overall, the exercise of U.S. military power in the Middle East, designed to gain strategic advantage, has backfired.  It has led to disarray in the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, and has opened diplomatic opportunities for Russia and China.

Source: The United States and the Middle East: the Politics of Miscalculation – CounterPunch.org

Israel, Israel Crimes

Gaza Humanitarian Worker: Biden Is on Board for Ethnic Cleansing

GAZA CITY, GAZA - FEBRUARY 19: Palestinians receive bags of flour as they wait for aid supplies carried by trucks to enter from the border in Gaza Strip on February 19, 2024. The Israeli war on Gaza has pushed 85% of the territory's population into internal displacement amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicine, while 60% of the enclave's infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN. (Photo by Dawoud Abo Alkas/Anadolu via Getty Images)

I helped with airlifts in Afghanistan, aid to the Ukrainian front, and building roads in Rwanda. None of it prepared me for the challenges of Gaza.

Source: Gaza Humanitarian Worker: Biden Is on Board for Ethnic Cleansing

Uncategorized

What has age got to do with it? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

In 2016 I described Trump as follows:

“Australians see Trump as a sick, deluded, and sexually abusive narcissist and corrupt criminal with a limited understanding of complex world problems. He is a crash-through politician with a ubiquitous mouth who is entertaining to some but lacks the worldly character required for leadership.”

And that, has nothing to do with his age.

Source: What has age got to do with it? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Israel

Joe Biden Is Shipping Weapons to Israel Every 36 Hours

The Biden administration has been able to maintain a low profile by spreading arms provision to Israel across more than 100 smaller munitions sales — allowing the president to posture as a peacekeeper while US weapons wipe Gaza off the map.

Source: Joe Biden Is Shipping Weapons to Israel Every 36 Hours

Israel

Biden To Bibi: ‘You And I Are Going To Have A Come To Jesus Moment’ | Crooks and Liars

Biden To Bibi: 'You And I Are Going To Have A Come To Jesus Moment'

U.S. President Joe Biden was recorded saying he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu they are going to have a “come to Jesus moment” in a conversation on the sidelines of the State of the Union address on Thursday.

Source: Biden To Bibi: ‘You And I Are Going To Have A Come To Jesus Moment’ | Crooks and Liars

Israel

‘Unconscionable’: Biden Has Approved 100+ Arms Sales to Israel in Just Five Months

Israeli soldier

“When people ask, ‘What do you want Joe Biden to do?’ the answer is: Stop making these weapons deals,” said one campaigner.

Source: ‘Unconscionable’: Biden Has Approved 100+ Arms Sales to Israel in Just Five Months

Israel, Israel Crimes

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 148: UN Reports at Least 14 Cases of Israel Firing on Palestinians Waiting for Aid in Gaza – ScheerPost

While US President Joe Biden has recently announced a plan to airdrop humanitarian aid into Gaza, David Harden, a former director of the US Agency for International Development has criticized this plan as “ineffective” in practice, and a symbol of the Biden administration attempting to “paper over a massive failure.”

Source: ‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 148: UN Reports at Least 14 Cases of Israel Firing on Palestinians Waiting for Aid in Gaza – ScheerPost

Israel

In God we trust – Pearls and Irritations

Security Council Fails to Adopt Resolution on Humanitarian Ceasefire in Gaza 16 Security Council Fails to Adopt Resolution on Humanitarian Ceasefire. Security Council votes on a draft resolution on the situation in the Middle East put forth by Algeria. The resolution demanded an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, as well as the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages. The resolution received 13 votes in favour, one against (United States) and one abstention (United Kingdom). The resolution was not adopted due to the veto by one of the Permanent Members of the Security Council (United States). A view of Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations, vetoing the resolution. image: UN Photo/Manuel Elías

Biden must think people are stupid if he thinks we believe his hollow words of chastisement to Israel and Netanyahu, asking him to use caution yet signing off even more multibillion-dollar funding to continue the war and genocide.

The U.S. administration could stop the war with one phone call. With one vote in the UN.

They have made the horror of Khan Younis their own to bear.

The U.S. administration could stop the war with one phone call. With one vote in the UN. The horror of Khan Younis is their own to bear.

Source: In God we trust – Pearls and Irritations

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DMFI Ad: Michigan Primary “Uncommitted” Democrats Help Trump

MI: Palestine protest for "uncommitted" primary vote

The pro-Israel group DMFI wants to undermine a Michigan protest vote against Biden’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza.

Source: DMFI Ad: Michigan  “Uncommitted” Democrats Help Trump

Israel

State Dept Finds ”Ethnic Cleansing” in Sudan but Refuses in Gaza

So many double standards. So much hypocrisy. Biden and Blinken can’t lie straight in bed

50 humanitarian organizations asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken to make an atrocity determinationOpens in a new tab related to a conflict that was drawing global attention.

Blinken responded with a determination that the RSF and the Sudanese Armed Forces were guilty. “Based on the State Department’s careful analysis of the law and available facts, I have determined that members of the SAF and the RSF have committed war crimes in Sudan,”

Source: State Dept Finds ”EthnPALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-CONFLICTic Cleansing” in Sudan but Refuses in Gaza

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Israel’s national security minister prefers Trump in power — RT World News

Israel’s national security minister prefers Trump in power

Lets Talk “Terrorist & Terrorism” . Ben Gvir was designated a “Terrorist by the State of Israel”. He is now their Minister for National Security. How is that?

Israel’s “Proud Boy” openly prefers Trump for President and says he won’t be dictated to by Netanyahu or America. It really is a case of the tail wagging the dog.

He first joined a right-wing youth movement affiliated with Moledet, a party which advocated transferring Arabs out of Israel, and then joined the youth movement of the even more radical Kach and Kahane Chai party, which was eventually designated as a terrorist organization and outlawed by the Israeli government.[16][17]  When he came of age for conscription into the Israel Defense Forces at 18, he was exempted from service by the IDF due to his extreme-right political background.[18][15]

Israeli national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has criticized US President Biden’s approach to Israel’s war in Gaza, arguing that the situation would be “completely different” if former President Donal Trump was in power.

“Instead of giving us his full backing, Biden is busy with giving humanitarian aid and fuel (to Gaza), which goes to Hamas,” Ben-Gvir told the Wall Street Journal on Sunday. “If Trump was in power, the US conduct would be completely different.”

Itamar Ben-Gvir, who was appointed as a National Security Minister in December 2022, is known for his far-right views. He previously called for the occupation of Gaza and the expulsion of the Palestinian population from the enclave. He also threatened to bring down Netanyahu’s governing coalition if the PM is too soft on Hamas.

Source: Israel’s national security minister prefers Trump in power — RT World News

WAR

Democrats are demented genocidal war sluts – Pearls and Irritations

Man lurking behind the American flag.

President Biden is reportedly preparing to begin a new weeks-long bombing campaign in the middle east in retaliation for a drone attack which killed three US troops this past weekend. These strikes are expected to include Iranian targets, tempting the nightmare scenario of a full-blown war with Iran, despite the public acknowledgement that there’s no evidence Iran was behind the drone strike.

Source: Democrats are demented genocidal war sluts – Pearls and Irritations

Israel

Biden Is Backing Israel’s Genocide — and Risking Reelection

Take all of your anxiety about what a second Trump presidency could do to the country and the world, take all your anger that what’s going on in the Middle East could lead to that outcome, and direct it at Joe Biden in the form of the most important message anyone on the planet can be delivering right now — the message he needs to hear, loud and clear, every time he opens his mouth in public:

Cease-fire now.

Source: Biden Is Backing Israel’s Genocide — and Risking Reelection

Israel

Joe Biden Isn’t Rescuing Hostages — He’s Enabling War Crimes

He sent hundreds of 2000lb bombs that have a kill radius of 360 meters and a diameter of 720 meters Gaza is only 5000 meters wide. They aren’t called “bunker killers” for nothing they are deep penetration devices. Israelis have dropped over 30,000 bombs on a postage stamp they called a “concentration camp”

Earlier this month, Joe Biden expressed his concern for the Israelis taken hostage in Gaza. But if he really cared about their safety, he wouldn’t be sending Israel weapons for its indiscriminate and criminal bombing campaign.

Source: Joe Biden Isn’t Rescuing Hostages — He’s Enabling War Crimes

Informed Comment

Robert Reich – Biden Vs Trump -Economy
Israel, Israel Crimes

Joe Biden Is Still Giving Unrestricted Support to Israel’s War on Gaza

How is the tail wagging the dog?

US officials suggested that Israel would have to shift to a “lower-intensity” campaign in Gaza from the new year. But Joe Biden is still unwilling to apply any serious pressure, even if his support for Israel’s war threatens to hand victory to Donald Trump.

Source: Joe Biden Is Still Giving Unrestricted Support to Israel’s War on Gaza

American Politics

Trump’s threat to democracy is the heart of Biden’s campaign—and Trump’s

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Biden is right to campaign on the threat Trump represents. Just don’t think his base sticks with him because they don’t understand that threat. They understand. Maybe better than anyone else.

Source: Trump’s threat to democracy is the heart of Biden’s campaign—and Trump’s

Israel

Palestine’s Obituary – scheerpost.com-Video

It was not hard to see the irony in the Western response, as Scheer points out: “The hypocrisy of Germany, which was the author of the worst crime of modern history, the Holocaust, and the French, who certainly were anti-Semitic to a considerable degree, and others in Western Europe, [are] now saying you can’t even demonstrate for Palestinian rights.”

Source: Palestine’s Obituary – scheerpost.com