For well over eight months, we have watched U.S. President Joe Biden and his team of accomplices fund and empower Israel’s genocide in Gaza. During that time, we have also had to endure a constant flow of gaslighting as Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and their colleagues and spokespeople try to convince the public that they would really like Israel to ease its slaughter of Palestinians, but Israel just won’t listen to them.
It’s a monstrous charade. And it’s not just the President and his flunkies. The mainstream of the Democratic Party is marching in lockstep with Biden’s support of genocide. Democratic leaders in Congress even signed on to an invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress.
There is a profound sense of disappointment for many Democrats at this performance, although, for close observers of U.S. politics around Palestine, it looks little different from the past four decades of bipartisan anti-Palestinianism…..more