Netanyahu's 'Mistake' Claim is Preposterous

There are no 'mistakes' when armies kill civilians. War is the mistake and this is Netanyahu's and Biden's war

Israel’s Prime Minister and Prime War Criminal is now calling yesterday’s strike on a refuge tent encampment where thousands of displaced Gazans had gone because the Israeli Defense told them it would be a safe zone — a strike that while originally was said to have killed 35 people, but now is reported to have killed at leas 50 — a “tragic mistake.”

My late Jewish grandmother-in-law, if presented a whopper as patently false as that, would have declared it buldrek.

The most the Biden administration, which supplies Israel with most of the munitions being used in Gaza — including the large bombs and Howititzer and tank shells which have killed most of the 36,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, who have been victims of this 7-month-long IDF assault, could muster in response to this latest slaughter of innocents was to call it “heartbreaking.”

Actually it’s a lot more than heartbreaking, which is the kind of word one might apply to deaths caused by a natural disaster. This mass murder is an outrage and is a criminal atrocity. It is infuriating and unpardonable. And US leaders like President Joe “I’m a zionist” Biden, Secretary of State Tony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan are as much war criminals at this point as is Netanyahu.

Because of his willingness to continue providing US arms to Israel even after the UN’s highest court, the International Court of Justice, has ordered Israel to halt its attacks on Rafah, the city on the southern end of Gaza where its military and its unprecedented leveling of the rest of Gaza have driven over half the Gazan population, some 1.5 million people, promising them refuge from its terror bombing, Biden and the US government are as culpable as Israel.

Instead of honoring the ICJ ruling and its cease-and-desist order, Biden has ignored the court, undermining the whole concept of international law that was developed with such care after World War II, with much of the work being done by US international law experts.

Netanyahu is clearly being pressed hard by world opinion, even with Biden continuing to give him a pass, along with more weapons to continue the genocidal attacks. The world reaction to the latest Israeli atrocity in Rafah has even many of Israel’s closest allies, like France and Germany, calling for a halt to the war on Gaza. Even in Israel itself , Jewish citizens are now demonstrating in large numbers, calling for an end to the war in Gaza — some because they are sickened by the killing by their own country of so many innocent Palestinians, and others because there are reportedly almost 100 Isrealis still being held hostage by Hamas fighters and those hostages are certainly at grave risk of dying from either IDF shelling and bombing of the places they are being held, or of starvation under the total embargo of food, water, electricity, fuel and medicine that continues to be imposed by Israel on the whole captive territory and population of Gaza.

Don’t bother reading the New York Time, by the way, if you want to know what is happening. The Times, according to an article in FAIR.org, is telling its reporters the should not use terms like genocide or ethnic cleansing in reporting on this conflict. Nor can they use terms like slaughter in destribing IDF mass killings in its bombings. You’ll get more honest reporting from the Associated Press, or the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

Joe Biden has proven himself to be no leader at all. His public importuning of Netanyahu to “kill fewer Palestinians” is not going to win him votes from the rabid right that backs his presidential race opponent Donald Trump, and yet it also exposes ] him as a weak and ineffectual or worse, as intellectually dishonest as he keeps sending more weapons to the war criminal running the war on Gaza.

There was a time I was thinking that given Trump’s authoritarian proclivities and his evident narcissism, that the only thing to do this November would be a defensive vote for Biden, but that’s not an option if it means voting for an enabler of genocide and war crimes. I suspect I’m not the only American coming to this conclusion. The polls showing Trump leading certainly suggest that. In a close election, Biden seems hell-bent in driving away humanitarian voters.

There is a way to stop this war: cut off all arms and financial support for Israel, support the IJC and also the effort of the UN’s other court, the International Criminal Court, in obtaining warrants for the arrest of Netanyahu and his Secretary of Defense and several Hamas leaders, on charges of war crimes. And join other nations that have already recognized Palestine as a state. Don’t allow Israel to continue to illegally grab land from Palestinians in the West bank and refusing to permit a two-state solution to this nightmare.

For 76 years the Jewish State of Israel has been tormenting, killing, driving out, stealing land from, and treating as second-class human beings the Palestinian people both in their occupied lands and inside Israel proper.

It has only been possible because of support for those policies and actions by a series of US governments.

It has to stop.