By Wesam Bahrani
Biden best suited for Israelis
May 8, 2024 – 21:43
Incumbent American leader oversaw mass suffering of Palestinians
TEHRAN- Joe Biden has proven to be the most suited American President in modern times to serve the vicious interests and agenda of the Israeli occupation.
While all U.S. presidents have historically provided unequivocal support for the Israelis despite the regime’s violation of international law, Biden stands out.
President Barack Obama was a staunch Israeli supporter and provided Tel Aviv with a record level of military aid; at the time of his presidency, yet criticized the Israelis over illegal settlements by abstaining to veto a UN Security Council resolution on the illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.
The tension was mostly believed to be personal between Obama and Netanyahu who was also Israeli prime minister at the time rather than a split between the U.S. and Israel.
Nevertheless, the current incumbent American leader has overseen an unprecedented number of Israeli massacres and acts of genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip over the past seven months.
The United Nations says the military assault on the civilian population in Gaza is unprecedented since the Second World War.
Biden publicly set a “red line” for Tel Aviv over any armed ground incursion in the southernmost city of Rafah, which is crammed with internally displaced Palestinians while describing the Israeli bombings as “indiscriminate”.
These have all proven to be empty words with no action to back them up as the Israeli military has crossed that red line by carrying out a ground assault on Rafah, where around half the population – some 600,000 – are children.
The “indiscriminate” bombings across Gaza that have killed and injured a record number of civilians in such a short space of time have all been allowed to go ahead by the Biden administration without any punitive measures.
Biden, who is a self-proclaimed “proud Zionist” had the influence and power to end the killing of children and allow water and food to reach a starving Palestinian population but chose to sit back and watch on.
The United Nations has been warning about the famine in Gaza for months, and yet less humanitarian aid is entering the Strip today than ever before.
The simplest measures Biden could have taken was to restrict military aid months ago to ease the level of Palestinian suffering, but he has failed to make that move despite UN agencies repeatedly warning about the plight of malnourished women and children inside the enclave.
The public remarks of the U.S. president are certainly at odds with his actions or lack of action.
It’s difficult to judge whether a different U.S. president would have taken a different approach as all American leaders have fully backed Israel at times of war and peace.
But experts say there was usually some level of pressure on the Israeli regime behind the scenes in previous wars that Tel Aviv had instigated. None of that pressure is believed to have been put on the Israelis under Biden, though the ongoing war on Gaza is the deadliest.
More importantly, this genocide in Gaza is happening under Biden’s watch.
The public criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government by Biden and some Democrats, Chuck Schumer in particular, who said he feared the Israeli occupation risks becoming a “pariah” does not represent a shift in U.S. policy toward Israel.
What it does represent is a shift in the U.S. concern about the image of Washington’s staunchest ally in West Asia.
There are differences among supporters of the Israeli occupation regime on the best method to ensure that the Zionist project would survive.
Analysts have pointed to the example of readers who believe left-leaning Israeli news outlets such as Haaretz are sympathetic toward the Palestinians, while these outlets have the same Zionist agenda but view the policies of reaching the mission in a different manner to other Israelis.
It is safe to say the image of the Israeli regime has been dealt a heavy blow at an international level. There is no doubt about that. From the mass weekly protesters in the streets of the West that have turned into a U.S.-led student movement at university campuses to Latin American countries cutting diplomatic ties with Israel.
That is the concern of President Biden and his fellow Democrats in power. How global public perception of the Israelis is affecting the status of the regime and America’s number one ally amid the genocide in Gaza?
There is a lot of work to be done, if it can be achieved at all, for Tel Aviv to recover its international reputation. The more women and children that are massacred by the Israeli army, the more difficult it will be for America to speak about human rights and international law.
The dying Western argument of the Israelis having the right to self-defense has been thrown out of the window. As Brazil’s President Lula once said, this is a war between a “highly prepared army, and women and children”.
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Zionist Jews in Biden administration calling the shots on Israeli war on Gaza
Sunday, 10 March 2024 9:27 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 10 March 2024 9:27 AM ]
By Ivan Kesic
One of the key but underreported factors of the unwavering US support for the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza is the overwhelming presence of Zionist Jews in the Joe Biden administration.
These Zionist Jews exert enormous influence in the American power corridors and enjoy unconditional support from the US president who has on numerous occasions boasted of being a “Zionist” himself.
The presence and influence of Zionist Jews in the White House has always been a point of discussion, however, since the events of October 7, it has manifested itself in many ways.
Biden administration’s vetoes of ceasefire resolutions in the UN Security Council, which drew widespread condemnation from pro-Palestine groups, rekindled the debate about the Zionist influence.
Raising the issue of the dominance of Zionist Jews in the US administration and policy circles is often seen through the prism of “anti-Semitism” in the West, even though the same people paradoxically like to boast about the disproportionate number of Jews in other fields.
The Zionist Jewishness of Biden’s cabinet was pointed out recently by The Forward, a progressive media for a Jewish American audience, as well as the Israeli right-wing newspaper Times of Israel.
Being a Jew should not be seen as a problem, but those in the Biden administration have clearly exhibited the tendencies of Zionism – not only justifying the Israeli regime’s genocide in Gaza but also lobbying for more financial and military aid to the occupying regime.
There are also non-Jewish Zionists whose support is motivated by Christian Zionism or belonging to pro-Israel lobbies, a common case in the ranks of the Republican Party.
The problem lies in the fact that everyone in the Biden administration is a radical Zionist who will uncompromisingly justify Israeli war crimes, with slight disagreements over relatively minor issues, such as illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
In the American mainstream media, voting in the UN Security Council and supporting the genocidal destruction of Gaza is treated as common sense and a natural course of action.
Biden admin. airdrops aid over Gaza while aiding and abetting Israeli genocide
Biden made no secret of his Zionist inclinations, uttering the words “I am a Zionist”. And he has proved it through numerous pro-Israeli activities in his decades-long political career.
One of them is the placement of Jewish Zionists in top positions in his administration, which at the beginning of 2021 evoked a popular joke on social networks that the West Wing would have a “minyan.”
The Hebrew term “minyan” means the minimum number of males (10) required to constitute a representative “community of Israel” for liturgical purposes.
Biden’s initial lineup includes Anthony Blinken as Secretary of State, Merrick Garland as Attorney General, Avril Haines as Director of National Intelligence, Ronald Klain as White House Chief of Staff, Rachel Levine as Assistant Secretary for Health, Alejandro Mayorkas as Secretary of Homeland Security, and Janet Yellen as Secretary of the Treasury.
One level down are David Cohen as Deputy CIA Director, Eric Lander as science and technology adviser, Ann Neuberger as Deputy National Security Adviser, and Wendy Sherman as Deputy Secretary of State.
In the meantime, Victoria Nuland took the position of Undersecretary of State for political affairs, Ed Siskel as White House counsel, and Klain was replaced by Jeff Zients as chief of staff.
Others appointed by Biden include Daniel Shapiro as a special liaison to Israel on Iran, Ned Price as spokesman for the Department of State, Jennifer Klein as executive director of the White House Gender Policy Council, as well as a large number of ambassadors.
The Zionist envoys include Michael Adler, David Cohen, Rahm Emanuel, Eric Garcetti, Mark Gitenstein, Amy Gutmann, Jonathan Kaplan, Yael Lempert, Alan Leventhal, Randi Levine, Jack Lew, Jack Markell, Constance Milstein, Marc Nathanson, Marc Ostfield, David Pressman, Daniel Rosenblum, and Marc Stanley, among others.
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Blinken, the top American diplomat, comes from a Zionist family. His grandfather Maurice was one of the early American Zionists and the founder of the American Palestine Institute, in the years before the declaration of the Zionist entity.
His institute funded economists to prepare a report on the economic viability of such an entity and lobbied Washington to politically support its creation.
Following Blinken’s appointment as the top US diplomat, replacing Mike Pompeo, the Israeli media praised his and Biden’s close relations with Tel Aviv during the Second Intifada in the early 2000s, noting their “lifelong support for Israel and its security.”
During the Obama administration, Blinken often justified Israeli aggressions in the region with the hackneyed phrase “the right to self-defense” and praised Trump for strengthening Israel’s regional alliances.
He was a close confidant of the Israeli ambassador to the US Ron Dermer who could call him in the middle of the night for pro-Israeli services, such as lobbying hard to have Israel’s Iron Dome air military system financed with American taxpayer money.
In his first days in office, he also made it known that the new Biden administration would support earlier Trump’s decision and keep the American embassy to the occupied territories in occupied al-Quds.
Last year, during the bickering between Biden and Netanyahu, Blinken pledged enduring US ties with Israel, seeing it as a far more important ally than NATO member Turkey.
As for Mayorkas, even the Israeli media boasted of his strong family ties to Tel Aviv and praised him for the data-sharing pact between the United States and the Zionist regime.
Even greater Zionist credit for intelligence sharing goes to CIA deputy chief David Cohen, whose career under Obama focused on sanctioning Israel’s enemies.
Thus, it is no surprise that Americans are bankrolling the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza while harping about ceasefire and aid airdrops to hoodwink the international community.
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