It is perhaps befitting that in the days leading up to Oct. 7 – the one-year mark of the Hamas attacks and the beginning of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza – every flagrant contradiction on full display over the past year is crammed and concentrated into a string of mere days.
Last Thursday, the Biden administration released an additional $8.7 billion in military aid to Israel. The following morning, the US announced it would not evacuate its citizens from Lebanon, and Americans could instead book commercial flights themselves. The announcement came shortly before internationally-accused war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the UN General Assembly in New York City.
“Israel seeks peace. Israel yearns for peace. Israel has made peace and will make peace again,” Netanyahu told the world. ….more