Nick Kristof makes the mistake of taking Biden at his word:
This should be an easy call, and it offers Biden a chance to rescue his failed Gaza policy, for, in this case, Biden and the World Court are fundamentally aligned [bold mine-DL]: They both oppose an all-out invasion of Rafah, and they both want Israel to allow in more humanitarian aid. But for seven months, Biden has allowed himself to be ignored and steamrolled by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the question now is whether the court ruling will help Biden find the gumption to pressure Israel to obey the decision.
It should be clear by now that Biden has no intention of using U.S. leverage to halt Israel’s offensive in Rafah. It is also impossible to miss that Biden and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) have taken opposing positions. The ICJ has ordered Israel to halt its current operations whether they qualify as an “all-out invasion” or not. The Biden administration is pretending that the offensive is “limited,” no matter how devastating its effects are. The ICJ takes the danger to the Palestinian population of Gaza seriously. The Biden administration obviously does not. The Court sees a possible genocide in the making. Biden flatly denies this. The Court and the president could scarcely be more out of alignment.
Kristof is right about Biden’s Gaza policy, but he keeps entertaining the fantasy that Biden will suddenly decide to do the right thing after more than seven months of proving to everyone that he won’t. Yes, it should be an easy call for Biden to endorse the ICJ’s order to end the attack on Rafah, but then it should have been an easy call for Biden to oppose the indiscriminate slaughter and mass starvation that have been taking place for more than half a year. It should have been an easy call to conclude that the Israeli government had violated international law and impeded the delivery of aid, but instead the administration ignored the evidence and the views of its own experts so that it could keep transferring weapons to them.
The president fails to get these easy calls right because preventing harm to the civilian population in Gaza and averting famine have never been priorities for him. We don’t have to guess about this. We need only review the record of what he has done and what he refuses to do.
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Daniel Larison is a contributing editor for Antiwar.com and maintains his own site at Eunomia. He is former senior editor at The American Conservative. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.
Making peace is possible, when people are sick of war. How many more must die?…?….?….
We the people are sick of war, but our leaders profit from war so they keep us in a state of war, and we the people allow them to keep doing what they want to do. Until enough of we the people get our priorities straight and rise up and reform or abolish our government, nothing will change. But as it stands now, too many of we the people want our government to provide us with bread and circuses.
Not everyone is against the warring. Many Dems hate Russia, and many GOP love Israel.
I think that if those people were asked if we should continue to fund these wars or should we actually participate in the fighting most would say no.
If the USD loses reserve status, things will change.
You’re right. And that couldn’t happen soon enough for me.
Nick Kristof and his New York times has encouraged and facilitated Biden and his administration current Gaza policy.
Nicholas Kristof and the NYT have encouraged and facilitated and lied about every conflict the US has been involved with since the beginning of his career. For that matter the NYT hasn't failed to cheer on every single conflict since at least the Spanish American War.
May 29, 2024 “Fake Justice” at The Hague: The ICJ “Appoints” Netanyahu to “Prevent” and “Punish” Those Responsible for “Genocidal Acts The Criminalization of International Law. Part I
Sounds contradictory? What the ICJ judgment intimates –from a twisted legal standpoint– is that Netanyahu’s Cabinet “appointed” to implement the “prevent and punish” mandate cannot be accused of having committed “Genocidal Acts”.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-icj-requires-netanyahu-to-prevent-and-punish-those-responsible-for-the-genocide/5847666
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Thank you so much! Thank you for the Globle Research video! By the way, what organization does the person extending his hand (or pointing) toward the poor woman and her child? IDF? UN?
These agencies are all funded by Blackrock behind the scene, and rules the MIC. I am not sure about the organization pointing at the the child.
May 10, 2018 BlackRock – The company that owns the world?
In less than 30 years, this American financial firm has grown from nothing to becoming the world’s largest and most trusted manager of other people’s money. The assets left in their care are worth a staggering 6.3 trillion US dollars – a figure with 12 zeroes.
https://youtu.be/A4foal20UTA?si=QLkx87QP2NoWBMtc
I read an article months ago about Blackrock (the investment vehicle taking care of Fed Chairman Powell's money, $6 million) being in Ukraine, looking things over. The heading was "Blackrock Seeks to Buy Up Ukraine".
I can say without joking that you could find a more suitable president than Biden by picking someone randomly in the street.
But hedging that, let's say you'd take 50 people randomly from all across the U.S., then made the most qualified of those the president. That would be better than Biden.
You could expand on that and pick people in the street to be Senators and Representatives.