Kamala Harris now owns US enabling Israeli genocide in Gaza

 

Kamala Harris now owns US enabling Israeli genocide in Gaza

Till President Biden withdraw his candidacy, Vice President Harris remained of sight, out of sound on foreign policy. Nary a word left her lips on her boss’s ghastly enabling of Israeli genocide in Gaza, destroying any semblance of existence for 2,300,000 Palestinians there.

No more. With Biden out, making Harris the presumptive nominee, she now must address every aspect of administration foreign policy going forward.

Sadly, Harris whiffed in her first foray into US genocide enabling she’s been avoiding like plague. She met privately Thursday with Israeli war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu who addressed Congress Wednesday. Before that formerly august body, Netanyahu begged, demanded actually, for more US weapons to ‘finish the job’. Netanyahu sullied America’s role in WWII as the Arsenal of Democracy, claiming that being the Arsenal of Genocide was on all fours with defeating Nazism.

After her private meeting with Netanyahu, Harris claimed she was concerned with massive casualties in Gaza. But she neither demanded he end the genocide nor pledged to cease all weapons to Israel on Day One of a Harris presidency. She pivoted back to the Biden pledge to give Netanyahu everything he needs to complete the annihilation of Gaza’s Palestinians. But instead of that grotesque truth, Harris calls endless US weapons support… “ensuring Israel’s self-defense”.

The cruel irony of Harris’ support of Netanyahu’s scorched earth Gaza policy is that it will likely cause further death of the remaining 122 Israeli hostages. Over 40 have died in captivity since Netanyahu focused on a war of annihilation rather than negotiate their release along with an end to Israel’s 17 year life destroying blockade. Additionally, Harris’s continuation of Biden’s Israel policy furthers Israel’s possible self-destruction from an unsustainable policy of genocide reviled around the world except in the Biden-Harris administration.

If Harris comes out against further weaponizing of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza, it will do more than bring life sustaining relief to the 2,300,000 Palestinians not you dead in Gaza. Assuming Harris has a conscious, it will allow her to sleep at night.

Responsible congresspersons push back at war criminal Netanyahu speech disgracing Congress

 Responsible congresspersons push back at war criminal Netanyahu speech disgracing Congress

Over a hundred of the 212 member Democratic caucus skipped Benjamin Netanyahu’s fiery speech before Congress Wednesday.
Netanyahu defended his genocidal ethnic cleaning of Gaza with billions in US genocide weapons. Just one of the 219 Republicans Tom Massie of Kentucky stayed away saying “The purpose of having Netanyahu address Congress is to bolster his political standing in Israel and to quell int’l opposition to his war. “I don’t feel like being a prop so I won’t be attending”. Another no show, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, blasted Netanyahu calling his speech “the worst presentation of any foreign dignitary invited and honored with the privilege of addressing the Congress of the United States.”


Some of the Democrats attending refused to stand, in contrast to the endless up and down adulation of the majority, to the soon to be indicted war criminal by the International Criminal Court.
Big shout out goes to Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, the only Palestinian Congressperson, who held up a signing proclaiming “War Criminal.”


Today, Netanyahu will meet privately with Biden and Harris to demand more death weapons to finish off those pesky Palestinians. Likely response from the genocide enablers? ‘Stop slaughtering the Palestinians….your genocide weapons are on the way’. Then it’s off to Mar a Lago where Netanyahu will genuflect before Biden’s most likely successor. Trump will use his go to soundbite on the genocide….“Finish the job”.


July 24thand 25th, two sorrowful days in the American Story.

Vance unlikely to advance peace advancing to Vice Presidency

 Vance unlikely to advance peace advancing to Vice Presidency

Newbie Senator J.D. Vance is favored to become America’s 50thVice President next January 20 if current polling holds up.

Most criticism of Vance focuses on the 39 year old’s scant experience of just 18 months in government. His memoir ‘Hillbilly Elegy fame, billionaire Sugar Daddy support, and idolatry of Trump, vaulted Vance into the Senate and possibly now the Vice Presidency. Succeeding 78 year old President Trump on Inauguration Day before his second term expires is certainly possible.

But little to nothing has been raised about Vance’ mostly reckless views on foreign affairs that imperil prospects for peace during our current, perilous road to war in the Middle and Far East.

Even Vance’s opposition to our senseless proxy war against Russia destroying Ukraine is in furtherance of a bellicose foreign policy. He wants to divert the endless billions squandered on Ukraine’s lost cause to massively increase armaments to Taiwan and other Far East allies to contain China. Just like weaponizing of Ukraine in their Donbas civil war precipitated the Russian invasion, China is not likely to sit around twiddling their thumbs while America encircles them with weapons.

Vance has joined the unhinged GOP chorus threatening to take out Iran for exercising influence in the Middle East. He said we need to "Punch back hard” to put Iran in its place…subservient to US hegemony in the region. That is nuts.

Back home Vance supports GOP policy of sending in the Marines to wipe out the Mexican drug cartels. “I want to empower the president of the United States, whether that’s a Democrat or Republican, to use the power of the U.S. military to go after these drug cartels.” To paraphrase Forrest Gump, ‘Stupid is ...when Vance talks on foreign policy’.

But most disturbing of Vance’s foreign policy views is his full support for Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza. President Biden’s 24,000 tons of bombs are not enough for Vance’s lust to wipe out the Palestinians there. Like his mentor Trump, Vance wants Israel to “finish the job” while criticizing Biden for “micromanaging” the ghoulish slaughter there.

It is not improbable that a Trump victory will eventually find Vance in the Oval Office before the ’28 Election. Lets’ hope that if so, the memoir of a Vance presidency is not ‘Armageddon Elegy’.

Biden should use last 6 months to end his destruction of Ukraine, Gaza

Biden should use last 6 months to end his destruction of Ukraine, Gaza

President Biden should take a page from his predecessor Lyndon Johnson. Back in 1968, LBJ withdrew from his reelection campaign because his Vietnam War policies made him vulnerable to peace candidate Sen. Gene McCarthy.

LBJ largely destroyed his Great Society legacy by pivoting from Jack Kennedy’s plan to withdraw from Vietnam. Upon succeeding JFK, Johnson went all in backing an unwinnable war. Johnson then pledged to use his last 10 months to seek a negotiated peace to end a failed war. He nearly succeeded till his peace plan was sabotaged by the Nixon Campaign. They told North Vietnam not to accept Johnson’s proposals to get a better deal from Nixon.

The gambit worked. Nixon won and kept the war going for his entire 6 year presidency, adding a million or more deaths to the senseless carnage. Nixon’s treason should not detract from applauding Johnson’s effort to the promote peace as he exited the White House.

Fifty-eight years later, Joe Biden can also use his remaining time to end not one war, but two wars. His legacy, like Johnson’s, will forever be sullied by igniting his senseless, failed proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, and his enabling of Israeli genocide in Gaza.

Alas, there is a chasm between LBJ’s pivot to peace and Biden’s agenda for his last six months. Biden remains committed to squandering endless billions till the last Ukrainian soldier is dead to weaken Russia. Biden appears oblivious that Russia is thriving on the military, economic and diplomatic front since he stupidly provoked Russia’s pushback to NATO expansion.

Biden’s enabling of Israeli genocide in Gaza is more ghastly than his destruction of Ukraine to promote US unipolar dominance in Europe. Biden talks ceasefire, aid to starving, disease ridding millions in Gaza, while his actions do the opposite.

President Biden has six months to do the right thing in Ukraine and Gaza. Unless he has an epiphany to peace, Joe Biden will endure forever a legacy of senseless destruction of human life without an iota of redemption in his final six months.

We must all push President Biden to channel his predecessor who faced the same dilemma 56 years ago…and, to his credit, made the right decision.

Congress to world: ‘War criminals welcome here’

Congress to world: ‘War criminals welcome here’

July 24, 2024 will go into history as a Day of Infamy for the US Congress.

A bipartisan claque of congresspersons will welcome Israeli war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress and a horrified world.

Netanyahu told his government he expects the International Criminal Court may issue warrants for his arrest for the war crime of starvation even before he sullies the sacred US chambers of government.

Netanyahu’s government stands credibly accursed worldwide of breaching the UN Genocide Convention.

Netanyahu has defied for two months the order of the International Court of Justice to end his military campaign of genocidal ethnic cleansing of Gaza.

Netanyahu should be under threat of arrest for war crimes when he steps onto the tarmac in D.C. Instead he’ll be welcomed with open arms…and open pocket books, by the morally compromised congressional delegation disgracing America with Netanyahu’s presence.

But one Senator is pushing back to war criminal Netanyahu’s congressional appearance. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told Congress yesterday:

“Throughout US history many world leaders of varying political backgrounds and persuasions have been invited to address Congress. But Wednesday will be unique. It will be the first time a war criminal has been given that honor."

Senator Sanders will not attend. Neither will Vice President Harris. Hopefully many more congresspersons will follow their lead and stay away. A better expression of congressional revulsion would be if all 535 Senators and Representatives showed up and turned their backs on Netanyahu when he approaches the podium.

Even better? If the ICC warrants against Netanyahu are issued before he speaks…it sure would be cool if they would collectively make a Citizens Arrest for war crimes.