Today, John Kerry made the rounds of the Sunday morning news shows following the Israeli massacre in the eastern Gaza City neighborhood of Shuja’iyeh which killed 63 Palestinians. Although Kerry defended Israel’s actions on air, he was caught with a hot mic off air telling an aide, ‘It’s a hell of a pinpoint operation.” Fox host Chris Wallace asks Kerry about the apparent criticism of the Israeli onslaught, but Kerry sticks to the talking points. The difference between what Kerry says on air and off is mind numbing.
During the off air moment Kerry also says he should leave for the region right away and that he thinks “it’s crazy to be sitting around.”
In other news I just saw a video from Fox News. A crazy lady was on saying that the media is falling prey to Hamas’s dastardly “dead baby strategy.” She also said that we should thank Israel for keeping Hamas bottled up otherwise they would come to America and kill us, cuz they are the “same type of organization” as Al Qaida.
The talking points are just getting crazier.
The situation here is obvious: John Kerry knows that if he tells truth and expresses his real thoughts and feelings, he will be targeted for destruction by the Israel lobby. Barack Obama and Kerry have been intimidated into supporting yet another disastrous Israeli policy. Noam Chomsky has no useful insights to provide on what is really going on in US/Israeli relations.
He’s pulling a Colin Powell!!! Enough already. Speak the TRUTH ON AIR. If not now, when? When you guys are out of office, and more rivers of Palestinian blood flow? The man I so admired for asking “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam?”….is reduced to spinning for AIPAC/Israel?
SAVE GAZA! Tell Netanyahu to stop it right this minute. No more domes, no more dimes, no more drones, no more spinning.
(THAT is the Kerry (off air) that I campaigned for so hard)
kerry is the definition of a coward just like the rest of the western leaders.
More proof of how the only people to truly support IsraHell are Christian fundies, Islamophobes and careerists.
No one likes Israel. Its a shitty little apartheid settler-colonial country club for Jews only.