The contempt Biden has shown his own voters over Gaza could very well cost him the election and it hasn't won him anyone who is already supportive of Israel no matter what they do. The US media's continued insistence on framing the failure of ceasefire discussions over the course of this conflict is full of inaccuracies and biased framing. Beyond (and it's a big beyond to overlook the slaughter and forced starvation of civilians and the destruction of the majority of civilian infrastructure as well as the imprisonment and torture of same) this conflict the utility of the entire UN and the International Courts is being hamstringed by the actions of the United States and Israel. This is not going to end well. The entire purpose of these international bodies was to be able to act to prevent EXACTLY what is happening in Gaza now from happening again.
I feel lied to! I ask people all the time who are not connected as much to the Gaza issue, but, if they know about Gaza, and if they heard Biden and the administration lie to people, they get that they are being lied to! Even the not so politically savvy people! So my question is, "Why does Biden believe he can lie about this when Americans are really ticked off about being lied to all the time! Sad to say but Trump is a complete idiot and creepy person, but I noticed he says what he thinks and doesn't back down. This is why Americans prefer Trump more....they feel lied to and manipulated by the Democratic Administration. It is sad they don't see it but lies are the quickest way to erode any trust there is.
Few of the things that are happening right now around Israel make a lot of sense—not from a moral, legal, political, or geopolitical perspective.
Probably it is all due to completely obvious things. 1) Biden believes he has to protect Israel, and that protecting Israel amounts to doing whatever the Israeli government, and most Israelis seem to want, which is to keep slaughtering and terrorizing Palestinians until they ‘get Hamas.’ The US military, as I recall, said that this was not possible before any of this started. From a military perspective, it does not make sense. From a moral perspective, it is a genocidal horror. From a political perspective, it is losing Biden votes. From a geopolitical perspective, it is very dangerous for the whole region. Israel stands to gain from it, I assume—psychologically, and in terms of increasing their control over the land and other resources, and perhaps to work toward the ultimate goal of taking Palestinians completely out of the picture by mass killing and expulsion. It appears that Biden thinks that he must advance Israel’s interests. I don’t know whether he believes the idea that Israel is under great threat from an existential evil like many people who see Israel as a first priority claim but the choices he is making are the same ones he would make if he did believe that.
2) Netanyahu wants to destroy Biden politically to the extent that he can, and the people who most intensely support Israel with the most influence in the US also would like Trump to win the next election
It’s a strange combination. There’s probably no way to make sense of any of it but it appears to be the cause of the constant non-stop lying. I assume Netanyahu is constantly lying to Biden, though we cannot know for sure what he says. But he does lie constantly, so it’s a good guess. The US government is constantly lying to the public to cover for Israel’s various crimes against international humanitarian law. The Israeli government is constantly lying to conceal its actions, and to justify them—they’ve created a whole machinery of lying. Lots of others in the media seem to be fine with this lying but also can’t constantly lie and remain credible. So we also keep finding out that a lot of the claims made are lies but nobody really dwells on them enough for this to have any impact.
I suppose this is particularly weird because so many people know they are lying, and they keep getting caught out lying but then they keep on lying. Also, a lot of the lies are obvious, unlike lies from past administrations, which were more subtle and harder to disprove. Maybe this is because Israel has such a far right government. A far right government tends to tell very stupid obvious lies and to be more brazen about lying. We saw this with Trump. He almost never told the truth. Either what he said didn’t make sense or it was just brazen lying.
So if you are covering for such a government, you will end up doing this as well.
Now, I guess this is confusing because even if Biden has not broken with the Israeli government, he’s pushing back somewhat. So unlike the recent past, he doesn’t have to parrot the Israeli lies (some long shown to be false). However, the administration still seems to think it has to cover for Israel. So they are still required to lie.
The effects of this on the US public are going to be absolutely terrible in the future. So many things have been totally gutted like international law, public trust but also any civic moral standard of accountability to the public to be honest, or to pay attention to their desires and interests. It just seems like one more speedbump that kept the US from racing toward overwhelming corruption of all democratic institutions has been eliminated.
Informally, accountability doesn’t just mean ‘impeachment.’ That’s the last resort. Accountability means that political leaders level with the public. And this is exactly what they refuse to do. The Republicans already torched this standard a while back, and now the Democrats have torched it.
The contempt Biden has shown his own voters over Gaza could very well cost him the election and it hasn't won him anyone who is already supportive of Israel no matter what they do. The US media's continued insistence on framing the failure of ceasefire discussions over the course of this conflict is full of inaccuracies and biased framing. Beyond (and it's a big beyond to overlook the slaughter and forced starvation of civilians and the destruction of the majority of civilian infrastructure as well as the imprisonment and torture of same) this conflict the utility of the entire UN and the International Courts is being hamstringed by the actions of the United States and Israel. This is not going to end well. The entire purpose of these international bodies was to be able to act to prevent EXACTLY what is happening in Gaza now from happening again.
I feel lied to! I ask people all the time who are not connected as much to the Gaza issue, but, if they know about Gaza, and if they heard Biden and the administration lie to people, they get that they are being lied to! Even the not so politically savvy people! So my question is, "Why does Biden believe he can lie about this when Americans are really ticked off about being lied to all the time! Sad to say but Trump is a complete idiot and creepy person, but I noticed he says what he thinks and doesn't back down. This is why Americans prefer Trump more....they feel lied to and manipulated by the Democratic Administration. It is sad they don't see it but lies are the quickest way to erode any trust there is.
Few of the things that are happening right now around Israel make a lot of sense—not from a moral, legal, political, or geopolitical perspective.
Probably it is all due to completely obvious things. 1) Biden believes he has to protect Israel, and that protecting Israel amounts to doing whatever the Israeli government, and most Israelis seem to want, which is to keep slaughtering and terrorizing Palestinians until they ‘get Hamas.’ The US military, as I recall, said that this was not possible before any of this started. From a military perspective, it does not make sense. From a moral perspective, it is a genocidal horror. From a political perspective, it is losing Biden votes. From a geopolitical perspective, it is very dangerous for the whole region. Israel stands to gain from it, I assume—psychologically, and in terms of increasing their control over the land and other resources, and perhaps to work toward the ultimate goal of taking Palestinians completely out of the picture by mass killing and expulsion. It appears that Biden thinks that he must advance Israel’s interests. I don’t know whether he believes the idea that Israel is under great threat from an existential evil like many people who see Israel as a first priority claim but the choices he is making are the same ones he would make if he did believe that.
2) Netanyahu wants to destroy Biden politically to the extent that he can, and the people who most intensely support Israel with the most influence in the US also would like Trump to win the next election
It’s a strange combination. There’s probably no way to make sense of any of it but it appears to be the cause of the constant non-stop lying. I assume Netanyahu is constantly lying to Biden, though we cannot know for sure what he says. But he does lie constantly, so it’s a good guess. The US government is constantly lying to the public to cover for Israel’s various crimes against international humanitarian law. The Israeli government is constantly lying to conceal its actions, and to justify them—they’ve created a whole machinery of lying. Lots of others in the media seem to be fine with this lying but also can’t constantly lie and remain credible. So we also keep finding out that a lot of the claims made are lies but nobody really dwells on them enough for this to have any impact.
I suppose this is particularly weird because so many people know they are lying, and they keep getting caught out lying but then they keep on lying. Also, a lot of the lies are obvious, unlike lies from past administrations, which were more subtle and harder to disprove. Maybe this is because Israel has such a far right government. A far right government tends to tell very stupid obvious lies and to be more brazen about lying. We saw this with Trump. He almost never told the truth. Either what he said didn’t make sense or it was just brazen lying.
So if you are covering for such a government, you will end up doing this as well.
Now, I guess this is confusing because even if Biden has not broken with the Israeli government, he’s pushing back somewhat. So unlike the recent past, he doesn’t have to parrot the Israeli lies (some long shown to be false). However, the administration still seems to think it has to cover for Israel. So they are still required to lie.
The effects of this on the US public are going to be absolutely terrible in the future. So many things have been totally gutted like international law, public trust but also any civic moral standard of accountability to the public to be honest, or to pay attention to their desires and interests. It just seems like one more speedbump that kept the US from racing toward overwhelming corruption of all democratic institutions has been eliminated.
Informally, accountability doesn’t just mean ‘impeachment.’ That’s the last resort. Accountability means that political leaders level with the public. And this is exactly what they refuse to do. The Republicans already torched this standard a while back, and now the Democrats have torched it.