The Biden administration will bumble, stumble, and mumble around what Israel is doing in Gaza, but they’ll never come right out and oppose it. From Aaron Maté at aaronmate.net:
Pretending to oppose a Rafah assault, the White House facilitates a new Israeli massacre at a Gaza tent camp.
Photo by Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images)
After months of unrelenting Israeli slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza, President Biden and his top aides insisted that they had had enough.
When it comes to an Israeli assault on Rafah, where more than one million displaced people had fled, that would be a “red line,” Biden said in March. “I’m not supplying the weapons … to deal with that problem,” he promised earlier this month. The White House, Secretary of State Antony Blinken declared in April, “cannot support a major military operation in Rafah.” For the US, “it’s imperative that people are able to get out of the way of any conflict,” and “we have yet to see a plan.”
Israel’s latest massacre in a Rafah tent camp for displaced civilians, in which dozens of people including children were burned and maimed while sheltering near United Nations warehouses, shows that the White House’s “red line” in Rafah was in fact a green light for continued Israeli atrocities. According to the Palestinian Red Crescent, the attack occurred in the Tal as Sultan area of Rafah, where the Israeli military had declared a so-called “safe zone” and encouraged Palestinians to flee to for protection.
Asked two weeks ago “what exactly is [Biden’s] red line,” and whether that would entail “withholding weapons”, Blinken answered tersely: “Look, we don’t talk about red lines when it comes to Israel.” In other words, when Blinken’s boss, Biden, did talk about a “red line” in March, he was simply lying – just as when he falsely and repeatedly claimed to have seen photos of Israeli Oct. 7th victims that do not in fact exist.
And the youth will see right through it as the burning tent conflagration images get out.
When you are “chosen” and the rest of the world are mere insects, there is no wrong.
Red Lines have been laughed at since Batthhouse Barry and the externals knew the Cloaca Maxima USA was done in the graveyard of empires.
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