To acknowledge genocide, Biden should spend day in Gaza

WALT ZLOTOW

MAY 29, 2024

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For 234 days, President Biden has been supporting and enabling Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing of 2,300,000 Palestinians in Gaza.

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Diplomatic support through public statements and vetoes of UN ceasefire resolutions is one thing. But his supply of tens of thousands of death weapons Israel uses to utterly destroy sustainable life in Gaza is a grotesque betrayal of moral and international law. It makes Biden’s government as guilty of genocide in Gaza as Netanyahu’s Israeli government.

Biden proudly calls his support of Israel’s destruction of Gaza “Ironclad.” When the International Criminal Court announced an arrest warrant for Netanyahu for war crimes, Biden denied Israel is committing war crimes, much less genocide.  

Official US policy under National Security Memorandum 20 requires regular reports to Congress that America is not sending death weapons to countries engaged in violation of international human rights laws. This year’s report greenlighted continued death weapons to Israel, essentially concluding ‘no human rights violations in Gaza, case closed.’

Cracks are beginning to erode administration support for US- Israeli genocide in Gaza. One State Dept. official and 3 diplomats have resigned over Biden’s genocidal policies. Linda Greenberg, a Jewish member of the Interior Dept. also resigned, stating Biden is exploiting Jews to support his Gaza policy.

Just yesterday Biden justified the horrific Israeli attack on a refugee tent camp in Rafah that killed 45, including 12 women, 8 kids and 3 elderly men. Biden’s excuse for Israeli blasting an Israeli designated ‘safe zone’ was that it also killed 2 Hamas fighters.

After 234 days of supporting/enabling Israeli genocide, Biden is not likely to change his murderous policy. It would be great if Biden could spend just one day visiting Gaza, watching kids and moms being obliterated by his bombs and experiencing hunger pains from no food. But he's soon holler cry, ‘Get me outta here, I've seen enough blood and guts for all my remaining days. Besides, I need a scrumptious 7 course White House dinner.’

Don’t expect for the president to take an all-expense paid fact finding trip to Gaza. He knows it would only require a one-way ticket.  

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