Foreign policy failure': Biden’s silence
MSNBC 3 days ago
https://youtu.be/gpAO-oK_tbc?t=187

Fareed Zakaria sits down with President Joe Biden
CNN 8 hours ago
https://youtu.be/-SKC_rvEXrY?t=830

On Sunday, July 9, 2023 at 10:54:31 PM UTC-4, chromebook test wrote:
> Foreign policy failure': Biden’s silence
> MSNBC 3 days ago
> https://youtu.be/gpAO-oK_tbc?t=187
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> Fareed Zakaria sits down with President Joe Biden
> CNN 8 hours ago
> https://youtu.be/-SKC_rvEXrY?t=830

Last April, Ben-Gvir gave a speech at a yeshiva founded by Kahane while standing in front of a wall-hanging that referred to Kahane and Goldstein as “martyrs.” It read, “Their blood will rise,” and quoted Joel 3:21: “For I will avenge their blood, which I have not yet avenged.” This week Ben-Gvir apparently carried out that promise, playing a key role in launching Israel’s largest assault on the West Bank in more than a decade: an attack on the densely populated Palestinian refugee camp in Jenin that has so far left a dozen Palestinians dead. Jenin, argues Ben-Gvir, was “a military operation, to take down buildings, exterminate terrorists—not one or two but tens and hundreds, if necessary thousands.”

But the assault on Jenin is only a preview of what lies ahead as the 2024 American presidential campaign unfolds. As Israeli tanks and jets pummel Palestinians from the air and ground, and fanatical Israeli settlers terrorize and attack them from the fields and the streets, Republicans like Pence cheer them on and Democrats like Biden meekly mutter their approval or say nothing. “We have seen the reports and are monitoring the situation closely,” a White House spokesperson said. “We support Israel’s security and right to defend its people.” Neither dares risk the millions expected from pro-Israel lobbies and donors as the campaigns heat up. It was a lesson Biden certainly learned while in the Senate.

Biden had long ago learned to turn a blind eye to Israel’s blatant racism, extreme brutality, and espionage in the United States in order to keep the millions in donations flowing. While vice president in 2011, he gave an address to a group of fundraisers and supporters of Yeshiva Beth Yehuda, a Jewish day school in Detroit. “I was speaking to the Zionist Organization of Baltimore. And I said, I am a Zionist, for I learned you do not have to be a Jew to be a Zionist.” He then added, to great applause, “I’ve raised more money from AIPAC than some of you have.”

It was an odd comment, since at the time AIPAC did not donate to candidates.. But now it does. In 2021 the group announced that for the first time it would launch a super PAC, the United Democracy Project (UDP), and begin endorsing candidates. But there would be no overt mention of Israel in either its name or its ads. Soon it was running numerous television spots supporting or opposing Democratic primary candidates for the 2022 midterms; by the end of the year, the UDP had raised nearly $36 million.

Rather than AIPAC, what Biden was likely referring to was pro-Israel money in general, and there he was certainly a winner. According to the campaign watchdog site Open Secrets, while he was in the Senate Biden was the largest recipient of pro-Israel PAC money: $4,226,604—almost twice as much as the second-highest recipient, Hillary Clinton.

Attending an AIPAC conference as vice president, Biden boasted of his support for the settler movement. “As recently as last year, the only country on the United Nations Human Rights Council to vote against—I think it’s 36 countries, don’t hold me to the exact number—but the only country on the Human Rights Council of the United Nations to vote against the establishment of a fact-finding mission on settlements was the United States of America.” He added, “I did more fundraisers for AIPAC in the ’70s and early ’80s than—just about as many as anybody.” With a self-declared Zionist in the White House, proud of his support for the brutal and illegal settler movement and eager for more pro-Israel PAC money for his reelection campaign, it is likely that Prime Minister Netanyahu felt free to launch his attack on Jenin.

In May of last year, Israel launched another attack on the Jenin refugee camp; that one resulted in the fatal shooting of the unarmed Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. According to a number of investigations, including the United Nations, the reporter was repeatedly targeted, along with her colleagues, despite being clearly identified as a member of the press. Nevertheless, the murder of an American citizen was brushed under the rug by the Biden administration.

In Jenin, as Elsewhere, Netanyahu Knows He Can Count on Washington’s Complicity
As America’s nonresponse to the attack on Jenin demonstrates, support for Israeli apartheid is fully bipartisan.
JAMES BAMFORD JULY 7, 2023
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/jenin-washington-pence-biden/

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