It certainly makes it clear that the tail doesn't wag the dog. Comradely, John
On Sat, 18 Jan 2025, 14:49 Charles Keener via groups.io, <ckeener20005= aol....@groups.io> wrote: > Biden worked 'tirelessly around the clock' — to prevent a ceasefire | > Responsible Statecraft > <https://responsiblestatecraft.org/biden-ceasefire-credit/?mc_cid=005efb9a5f&mc_eid=ea56899a42> > > There is little doubt that President-elect Donald Trump’s posture > vis-a-vis Israel <https://responsiblestatecraft.org/tag/israel/> is a key > reason why a ceasefire in Gaza has finally been achieved. According to a > diplomat briefed on the matter, this was “*the first time there has been > real pressure on the Israeli side to accept a deal* > <https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/01/15/israel-war-gaza-ceasefire-hostages-news-hamas/#link-RO4YL25X2ZB6DJP3TWPCCUIFTE> > .” > > This means that for 15 months, Israel has dropped American bombs on > children in tents > <https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/world/middleeast/israel-airstrike-humanitarian-zone-gaza.html>, > on refugees sheltering in schools > <https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/12/16/israel-bombs-another-un-run-school-in-gaza-without-warning-killing-20>, > and on patients seeking help in hospitals > <https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-gaza-hamas-hospital-bombing-rcna175237> > *without* President Joe Biden > <https://responsiblestatecraft.org/tag/joe-biden/> exerting any “real > pressure” on Israel to stop. > > And once the mere posture of pressure was exerted on Israel by an envoy > representing a man who isn’t even President yet, lo and behold, a ceasefire > was secured. > > All these *senseless deaths* > <https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-war-toll-likely-significantly-undercounts-deaths-says-study-2025-01-09/>, > all the *American credibility lost* > <https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/25/israel-united-states-credibility-confrontation/>, > all the Biden voters *who stayed home in protest* > <https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/kamala-harris-gaza-israel-biden-election-poll> > on > November 5 could have been avoided. > > The truth of the matter is that every day for the past year, Biden could > have secured a ceasefire by using America’s vast leverage. > > And every day for the past year, from all the evidence we have today, > Biden *chose* not to. > That is the crux of the matter. It is precisely the fact that Biden chose > this path that will damage America for years to come. It wasn’t that he > lacked the ability or strength to stop the carnage. It’s not that he really > wanted to stop it but sadly couldn’t. It wasn’t that his hands were tied. > It wasn’t that Congress forced him. Or that polls showed that he or Kamala > Harris would lose the elections if they pressed Israel. It wasn’t any of > that. > > Biden was simply in on it. He was on board with Prime Minister Netanyahu’s > war plans. He even *attended the war cabinet* > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdEolmetFfQ&ab_channel=MSNBC> where the > plans were adopted. > > In an exit interview with the Times of Israel, Biden’s outgoing ambassador > to Israel even bragged about the Biden administration never exerting > pressure on Netanyahu to halt the killing. “*Nothing that we ever said > was, Just stop the war* > <https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-ambassadors-farewell-warning-you-cant-ignore-the-impact-of-this-war-on-future-us-policymakers/>,” > Ambassador Jack Lew proudly declared. > > By willingly making America complicit, Biden’s decisions will have > profound and long-lasting strategic repercussions for the American people > on par with the damage George W. Bush’s illegal invasion of Iraq inflicted > on America’s standing, credibility, and security, as well as on the > region’s stability. > > Biden’s own acting Director of the National Counterterrorism Center > (NCTC), Brett Holmgren, told CBS that "*anti-American sentiment fueled by > the war in Gaza is at a level not seen since the Iraq war* > <https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1269378844283291>." Terrorist groups > such as Al Qaeda and ISIS are recruiting on these sentiments and issuing > the most specific calls for America in years, according to Holmgren. > > So every bomb Biden provided Israel to drop on children in Gaza was not > only morally monstrous; it also made Americans less safe. > > It will take years for America to recuperate from the damage Biden has > inflicted on our standing, our moral compass, our credibility, and on our > security. America is still recovering from the sins of the Iraq invasion. > But there will be no healing at all, no bouncing back, unless we admit the > errors, hold those responsible accountable, and learn to do better. Just as > Bush’s Iraq invasion and Global War on Terror gave birth to the strongest > anti-war sentiments among Americans seen in decades, made war-mongering bad > politics, and the epithet “neocon” an insult, Biden’s bearhug strategy on > and blind deference to Israel must forever be remembered as the original > sin that led America down the path of complicity in what most likely > amounts to genocide. > Trita Parsi > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. 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