Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the US Saturday that his 100 day war of genocidal ethnic cleansing of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza has got ‘MADE IN USA’ stamped all over it.
“This is not just our war – it is also your war. This is the war of the sons of light against the sons of darkness. This is a war against the axis of evil led by Iran and its three proxies: Hezbollah, Hamas, and the Houthis.”
Apparently, Netanyahu wants Joe to join him in the dock of potential genocidal ethnic cleansing charges currently being litigated at the International court of Justice.
“No one will stop us, not The Hague, not the axis of evil, and not anyone else,” Netanyahu boasted, knowing that the one man who can stop him, Joe Biden, is all in with billions in weapons to bomb virtually the entire Gaza population from their homes. In addition, Joe publicly supports the ongoing genocide, and gives Netanyahu veto proof protection in the UN Security Council.
After a 52-year political career supporting every senseless US war to the hilt, Biden is fading into oblivion a genocide denier, a genocide enabler. His overextended stay on the public stage is ending with the worst single criminal conduct toward humanity in US history. The best war crimes defense lawyers would be hard pressed to save him from conviction at The Hague should he end up there. But no one can save his soul from the harsh verdict of history.
Walt Zlotow became involved in antiwar activities upon entering University of Chicago in 1963. He is current president of the West Suburban Peace Coalition based in the Chicago western suburbs. He blogs daily on antiwar and other issues at www.heartlandprogressive.blogspot.com.
Biden invoked a passage from the book of Isaiah in remarks about Afghanistan
“ The state/church watchdog has written to the president, educating him about the religious pluralism of the U.S. military and emphasizing how inappropriate it is to suggest that the American war in Afghanistan was in answer to a call by the deity of the Old Testament.
Biden’s remarks included:
Those who’ve served through the ages have drawn inspiration from the Book of Isaiah. When the Lord says, “Who shall I send? Who shall go for us?” America’s military has been answering for a long time, “Here I am Lord, send me! Here I am, send me!”
This amounts to a suggestion that “God is on our side,” and that the U.S. military was fulfilling a religious mission in Afghanistan.
“God is not on our side — or anybody’s side,” write FFRF Co-Presidents Annie Laurie Gaylor and Dan Barker. “The Taliban thinks Allah is on its side. ISIS thinks Allah is on its side. Almost every side in every war claims a deity is blessing it. Such delusions are reckless. Nothing is more dangerous than a ‘holy war’ or, for that matter, a ‘holy withdrawal.’”
FFRF noted the inappropriateness of selecting the passage from Isaiah, which it called a “fever dream of a story,” while referring to the 20-year-long war in Afghanistan. The scorched-earth passage urges a pointless religious mission that does not end: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left deserted and the fields ruined and ravaged, until the Lord has sent everyone far away and the land is utterly forsaken.” Isaiah 6:11–12.
Biden’s use of this bible passage, FFRF adds, presupposes the military is entirely made up of believers, which is insulting and insensitive to the quarter of the U.S. population that claims no religious affiliation, including the one-fourth of armed forces members who are religiously unaffiliated.
“The U.S. military was not in Afghanistan to spread religion,” FFRF points out. “To the contrary, our entrance was in direct response to a religiously motivated attack on the secular United States. Suggesting that the American presence was ordained by the god of the Old Testament, and should persist until Afghanistan’s ‘cities lie ruined,’ the ‘houses are left deserted and the fields ruined and ravaged,’ and the ‘land is utterly forsaken,’ paints a picture of American servicemembers as rampaging crusaders.”
That’s not the image of the U.S. armed forces that the commander in chief wants to project to the world.
https://ffrf.org/news/news-releases/item/39744-ffrf-chastises-biden-for-biblically-justifying-afghanistan-war
No wonder he is totally blind to what’s happening in Gaza.
Say what you want about Trump but he never did THAT…
He just increased drone attacks over what the Obama administration did. He moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, a direct affront against the Palestinians authorities and the people. He is cheer leading the attacks by Israel. Not to mention having an Iranian general assassinated, a general who the Pentagon has said was helpful in battling ISIS. He is just fine with what is going on.
Yeah, but nothing on the scale of genocide… Nothing close to it.
And he lifted the rules of engagement for both drone strikes and airstrikes to make killing easier. MAGA.
When Donald Trump was president, the U.S. military was involved in 40% of the world’s countries in its war on terror. Isolationist? (Smithsonian Magazine, 1/19)
Ah yes, the good old days.
U.S. military was involved in 40% of the world’s countries
It was that way prior to Trump. He didn’t start it and couldn’t end it.
The Zionist administration in Israel is giving the finger at all of the nations of the world, daring them to stop the genocide, the ethnic cleansing. All proposals presented to Israel have been rejected. From the beginning, Hamas has been the excuse for the real purpose. Erasing the Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank in body, and in memory, also cleansing the areas of non-Jews, aka, Christians.
“Non-Jew” /= “Christian.” There are Jewish Christians, and non-Christian non-Jews.
Jewish Christians ? So Judaism is a race, not a religion ?
Judaism is a religion which not all members of the Jewish ethnic group practice. I’ve known Christian Jews, atheist Jews, one Buddhist Jew, etc.
Since anyone can convert to Judaism, I didn’t consider it an ethnicity.
Judaism isn’t an ethnicity. Jewishness is. And Judaism not only doesn’t proselytize, but actively discourages conversion.
If Judaism discourages conversion, Gentiles that convert to Judaism violate its faith. There are Gentiles that convert to Judaism if they marry Jews.
“If Judaism discourages conversion, Gentiles that convert to Judaism violate its faith.”
Non sequitur.
Here’s a link to Kyle’s interview with Rachel Blevins: https://youtu.be/uPodm235IYY?si=4tJQyJsUKpTfYzEK