Silence is agreement, Democrats. Call out Biden for enabling Israeli genocide in Gaza
Silence is agreement, Democrats. Call out Biden for enabling Israeli genocide in Gaza
Silence is agreement, Democrats. Call out Biden for enabling Israeli genocide in Gaza
My Illinois congresspersons vote for further destruction of Ukraine, further genocide in Gaza, further military confrontation with China
Bipartisan Ukraine aid vote neither victory for Ukraine nor for functional American governance
We in the peace movement knew the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board would be quick to celebrate the House Republican capitulation to Democrats in squandering another $61 billion on the lost war in Ukraine. For its entire 26 months, the Ukraine war has had complete support by the Trib for endless weapons for endless war, instead of negotiations that could have resolved it in its first month.
But to frame it as a harbinger of functional bipartisan governance is both surprising and preposterous. It simply represents Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson caving to the US war party which always gets its endless billions for war through bipartisan support. The six months of Republican delay were a welcome break from war bipartisanship when Republicans actually aligned themselves with the electorate which favors peace, not endless war in Ukraine.
The Trib correctly noted that a majority of House Republicans voted against this weapons boondoggle which will prolong the war to kill off the remaining Ukrainian soldiers, and further descend Ukraine into an ungovernable, failed state.
That 112 vote Republican majority, along with a majority of the American people, have infinitely more sense than the Biden administration and its partner in endless war, Speaker Mike Johnson.
The $61 billion cannot replace the hundreds of thousands of dead Ukrainian soldiers. It cannot prevent Ukraine eventually suing for peace, losing a quarter of its territory when negotiations early on would have kept it whole.
What will the Chicago Tribune Editorial Board write when that occurs? We in the peace community would like to know.
Rep. Casten votes to squander $95 billion to further destroy Ukraine, enable genocide in Gaza, provoke military confrontation with China
Biden’s words proclaim Two State Solution or Palestinians; Biden’s actions ensure One Apartheid State Solution
Every time he’s asked, President Biden asserts he seeks statehood for Palestinians decades long under Israel’s Apartheid regime controlling them in the region.
But for his entire six decade career in public office he’s done everything possible to protect Israel’s inexorable dehumanization and removal of Palestinians from their historic land.
Now as president, with significant influence to promote Palestinian statehood, Biden is doing the opposite. Last Thursday he cast the lone veto in the UN Security Council denying full Palestinian UN membership. The vote was 12-1 with 2 abstentions. It only needed 9 votes to pass but the US veto nullified the 12 vote approval.
Biden does much more that veto UN Security Council resolutions on Palestinian statehood. He remains in “ironclad support” of Israel’s government which fervently argues there will never be a Palestinian state. Israeli Prime Minister pulls no punches. “In any future arrangement … Israel needs security control all territory west of the Jordan. This collides with the idea of (Palestinian) sovereignty. What can you do?” Everyone knows that I am the one who for decades blocked the establishment of a Palestinian state that would endanger our existence.”
Biden’s ironclad support includes thousands of tons of weapons for Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing of 2,300,000 Palestinians in Gaza. Once the Netanyahu-Biden tag team finishes off those pesky Palestinians who want a state of their own, any further UN Security Council resolutions will become moot.
When Biden’s lips move on the issue of Palestinian statehood, he’s lying. But his thumbs up to the next load of 2,000 lb. bombs to level entire city blocks in Gaza represent the absolute truth of his commitment to a single Apartheid state solution for the Palestinian people.