Joe Biden met with Benjamin Netanyahu this week on the sidelines of the U.N. and promised him a giant gift– a White House visit by the end of the year — and said his administration is turning itself inside out to get a normalization deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia. Surely for the worst of motives: because Biden needs pro-Israel donors behind him in 2024.
Just listen to Victoria Nuland, a deputy secretary of State, assuring the PBS News Hour that a Saudi deal will help out Palestinians:
We’re talking about this as an element of the deal, in terms of ensuring that the conditions on the ground are such that the prospect of a two-state solution stays vibrant and strong.
The two-state solution “stays vibrant and strong”. Nuland is simply lying through her teeth. It’s apartheid in Israel/Palestine. Every human rights group tells us as much, and so do the Israelis.
Now listen to our friend Roger Waters. He wasn’t allowed to attend the Palestine Writes literature festival at Penn this weekend during yet another manufactured crisis over supposed antisemitism, and traveling to the arena to protest his exclusion, Waters explained that all the antisemitism accusations are a diversionary tactic to keep people from talking about Palestinian human beings:
“Palestinians have no human rights in the occupied territories, and that’s what should be center and foremost in everybody’s consciousness and minds. Because how would you feel if you had absolutely no civil and legal rights in the country where you were born– where your parents and grandparents and great grandparents and great great grandparents were born– where you grow olive trees and do all the things people do in a normal country?
“How would you feel if you can’t go on the freeway. They stop you at the tollgate. Identity card please. You have to drive on higgledy-piggledy little roads, you can’t drive on the freeway. Because you’re not Christian. Or you’re Muslim. Or whatever.
“‘That’s ridiculous! Church and state are separate, mate!’
“‘Not here, they’re not!'”
Eloquent and true– and harder and harder to cover up. Waters is summarizing a crushing reality that we report and that is evident to more and more Americans by the day.
And that Victoria Nuland, and Joe Biden, and Hakeem Jeffries, and AIPAC, and the liberal Zionist groups, too, and Tom Friedman too, running interference in the New York Times, all want you to ignore. Because for Democrats in an election season, supporting Israel is more important than fighting climate change.
Thanks for reading,
Phil Weiss
Voters who support equal human rights for the Palestinians need to become single issue voters in the next election.
The Democratic Party Leadership is infected with a virus. Saying that a vibrant “two-state-solution” is within our grasp is total BS. They need to lose at the ballot box before they will lift a finger to help the Palestinians.
That nearly all politicians pay lip service to fairness, and equality and this could be capitalized upon politically. Imagine the possible blowback if Palestinian citizens campaigned for equality under the law. This could be especially explosive considering the issue with the Supreme Court.
It seems like “vibrant” is the new AIPAC approved talking point buzz word in defense of Israel’s Apartheid regime.
Defending Apartheid Jewish Supremacy. It’s just “vibrant” democracy. Defending an extreme ring-wing racist coalition government that invades Al Aqsa during Ramadan, beats praying Palestinians, and dares Hamas to respond. It’s just “vibrant” political speech. Defending Netanyahu’s attempted coup and attempt to undermine the entire judiciary system to keep himself out of jail and annex the West Bank. It’s just “vibrant” leadership in a “vibrant” democracy. Defending the complete atrophy, death, rigor mortis, and decay that was the “two state solution”. It’s just “vibrant”.
As Inigo Montoya so wisely once said, “You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.”
No. “Vibrant” is just the latest euphemism, used to try whitewash and hide the ugly truth behind all of Apartheid Israel’s crimes and malfeasances.
Of course the great irony is in the ACTUAL meaning of the word. When US officials now slip in the word “vibrant”, you have to laugh, because what they are literally saying is the Israel is ‘enthusiastically’ racist, ‘enthusiastically’ supremacist, and an ‘enthusiastically’ Apartheid state.
It’s almost as if they kinda know what they’re saying and doing. Hahahaha!