Progressives are shouting down Biden speeches over his support for Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza, while Arab-American leaders challenge Biden, “See you in November.” And the press is finally stating that the brutal policy could cost Biden the election.
The Biden administration’s opposition to Israeli settlements really is a joke. After second husband Doug Emhoff tweeted a photo of the vice president serving wine from an illegal Israeli settlement at her seder Friday night, the VP’s spokesperson tweeted: “The wine served at the Seder was in no way intended to be an expression of policy.”
Kamala Harris visited a political science class at George Mason University in Virginia on Tuesday and after a Middle Eastern student described personal pain over Israel committing “ethnic genocide and displacement of people, the same that happened in America,” Harris nodded and said everyone’s perspective must be included in a democracy. The interchange became a scandal — and Harris has rushed to assure pro-Israel groups that she disagrees with the student.
It never crossed the minds of most pundits or politicians or Democrats to be critical of Blinken’s pathologically dishonest response to Rep. Ilhan Omar about U.S. and Israeli accountability. His response was normal, entirely mainstream, precisely because Israel is an apartheid state and the US is a superpower and neither is accountable to their victims and we aren’t supposed to notice the lack of accountability.
US policy denying Palestinians any avenue of redress against Israeli human rights violations is a public joke, as Matt Lee grills State Spox Ned Price over opposition to ICC jurisdiction. “Where do they go? Where do they go?” And Price has no answer.
For Palestinians, Biden is better than Trump, no doubt. But is he good enough? What matters now is Palestinian internal unity and developing a sound strategy different from the one the Palestinian Authority has thus far embraced and which led to multiple failures and crises.
Elections in the U.S. can have massive impacts across the world. So, what do the recent results mean for us in Gaza?
US election showed that American Jews and Israeli Jews could not be more different, American Jews dislike Netanyahu two-to-one, and so the Israel lobby is divided forever, because the Jewish community is divided on the Israel question, with many young Jews supporting boycott. And that divide will continue to spur political debate.
One of Joe Biden’s political achievements this year is that he has taken what seemed to be a big issue for Trump– Israel — out of the campaign. The Israel lobby trusts Biden because he promises to use American force overseas and try to end the politicization of the Israel issue here. Biden and Harris have actually run against their own Democratic base on Palestinian rights.
Former Israeli ambassador Michael Oren says Joe Biden “deeply supports Israel,”
but he warns US Jews of “major policy differences” between Biden and Israel, on Palestine and Iran, and Iran threatens Israel’s children’s future. If Biden gets in, Israel is prepared to deal with him as it did with Obama.