Monitoring Biden and other Contemporary Events

A ten year old girl. She has no complicity in anything.

Kushner's Absurd Peace Plan Has Failed

But the explosion of fighting in Israel and Palestine in recent days makes clear something that never should have been in doubt: justice for the Palestinians is a precondition for peace. And one reason there has been so little justice for the Palestinians is because of the foreign policy of the United States.

"I don't think that there's any way that this occupation and creeping annexation process could have gotten where it is today if the United States had said no," said Jeremy Ben-Ami, the president of the liberal Zionist group J-Street.

So much horror has been born of the delusion, on both the Israeli and American right, that when it comes to the Palestinians, the status quo is sustainable.

Israel's 2018 "nation-state law" enshrined "Jewish settlement as a national value" and undermined the legal equality of Israel's Arab citizens. As settlements expanded, a two-state solution turned from a distant dream into a fantasy.

For decades now, it seems Israel administrations have been less concerned with adherence to international laws on war crimes than they've been concerned about anyone mentioning those crimes.

If America were to threaten to withdraw Israel's huge military aid the action on Gaza would stop in a heartbeat.

Rumor has it Israel may have already made nuclear weapons.

snood wrote:

A ten year old girl. She has no complicity in anything.

I disagree. She is a nasty venomous viper who is doing her best to spread her poison.

When do Palestinians start being "nasty venomous vipers"? At ten years old? At three? At birth?

Biden, like every US President before him, faces a nearly insurmountable set of problems here (the evidence for that claim is simply that none have been able to turn this around). Perhaps (I'm not anything like an expert on this matter) the closest point was during Carter's presidency and the Camp David Accords. But as you may know, years later in a recorded interview, Netanyahu bragged about killing those accords.

Israeli intransigence is one key factor.

The power of the Jewish lobby (which hews in support of mainly the right in Israel) is another.

Israel depends upon massive cash infusions from America and this could be leveraged much more than it seems to have been.

But even given all the above, the US has been complicit in what has happened with the Palestinians. Not the US alone, but mainly the US.

I think that's a very sound analysis/summary.

And I agree that the US bears some responsibility for the suffering in Palestine.

Biden shouldn't have voted no on the cease fire at the UN.

I am not sure what good it does to issue a statement from the UN regarding Israel, they just ignore such statements and claim victimhood as a reason completely ignoring their very real actions which led to the statements.

However, for US, if we had signed on to such a statement, it would be a very big deal. If we followed that up by being open to real solutions which don't hold the Palestinian people hostage to the actions of Hamas and other Arab nations before any kind of accord can take place, maybe it would go a long way in making a statement to Israel.

At the very least we could stop sending money and military aide to support Israel.

Personally I also condemn the other Arab nations who don't do anything to help the Palestine people.

They have been silent while Israel is bombing Palestine.

Meanwhile Gaza and other Palestine places and people are being eliminated.

This is an old article from 2019 taking about the life inside Gaza.
https://theconversation.com/gaza-what-life-is-like-under-the-continuing-israeli-blockade-124528

By targeting civilians, Hamas is committing a war crime. In all probability, so is Israel, by bombing and shelling Gaza.