The Biden administration takes a page out of the Mike Pompeo playbook:
The U.S. has deemed Israel in compliance with U.S. President Joe Biden’s national security memorandum stipulating that recipients of U.S. weapons must be in compliance with international law, nor may they block the provision of humanitarian assistance.
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Walter Russell Mead ends his latest column with some random assertions, mindless talking points, and a call for violence:
Crows cluster where scarecrows fail. If Team Biden wants a world with fewer challenges to the American order, it must restore respect for American power, competence and will. Step one would be to submit a serious defense budget to the Congress, one that demonstrates American resolve to support our friends and deter our adversaries in key global theaters.
Step two is to kill some crows.
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Antony Blinken was asked yesterday at a State Department press briefing if he agreed with the EU’s Josep Borrell that Israel was using starvation as a weapon in Gaza, and he gave this answer:
What we’ve seen in terms of food as well as other supplies, going to your – the second part of your question, is of course the Israelis have been not only allowing food in, they have been working to make sure that it gets in and gets to people who need it. We’ve seen throughout this process, first, the opening of Rafah back in October. After my first visit to Israel, many hours of discussion, Rafah opened. Assistance began to get in. We went back some weeks later. We got agreement to open Kerem Shalom. During the first pause, the hostage pause, one week, the amount of assistance that was then going in doubled during that period of time
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The Biden administration wants you to know that you shouldn’t take any of the president’s warnings to Israel seriously:
The White House denied on Tuesday that President Biden had set any “red lines” for Israel in its campaign against Hamas in Gaza but warned again that Israel should not attack the city of Rafah, the southernmost city in the enclave, without protections for more than a million people sheltering there.
The president pretends that his administration is working overtime to save lives in Gaza:
The United States is committed to pulling out every stop to get more aid to those in Gaza who desperately need it. We won’t stand by. We won’t let up.
None of this is true, but Biden needs the American public to believe that it is. The administration has not pulled out every stop, and in fact they seem unwilling to do much at all. The U.S. has not only been standing by while the Israeli government uses starvation as a weapon against the people of Gaza, but it also continues to provide that government with arms and diplomatic protection to assist them in their policy of collective punishment. The administration is trying to create a smokescreen with its public messages and stunts to distract from its ongoing complicity in the terrible crimes against the Palestinians of Gaza.
Continue reading “Time Is Running Out To Stop a Major Famine in Gaza”
The delivery of U.S.-made weapons to Israel over the last five months has been massive:
The United States has quietly approved and delivered more than 100 separate foreign military sales to Israel since the Gaza war began Oct. 7, amounting to thousands of precision-guided munitions, small diameter bombs, bunker busters, small arms and other lethal aid, U.S. officials told members of Congress in a recent classified briefing.
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