Same Blind Biden and Netanyahu, Ignore Protest, Decry

All over the world, we need more firefighters and fewer pyromaniacs like Netanyahu and enabler of barbaric like Biden.

Jerusalem, Gaza Strip, Tel Aviv 3.33pm / DC and Dearborn 8.33am

In the middle of all this madness, I am feeling certain about only one thing. If peace ever comes, it will come from the bottom up, from the best people of two societies or communities or constituencies. 2 main constituencies organizing for Gaza right now are Palestinians whose family members are under the bombs, and progressive American Jews, many of whom lost family in the Hamas attack. Old, corrupt, narcissistic, self-serving "leaders" in Tel Aviv, DC, London, Berlin, Paris will never do it. It's on us. Imagine if at least from 2 cities, NYC and London, all Jew no longer vote Biden or Trump, no longer vote Rishi Sunak or Keir Starmer, [all Jew] angry because [both] Biden and Sunak greenlight, ‘OK’ to Netanyahu to genocide Palestinian. Not counting massive protest [with a lot of local Jewish] in Berlin, Madrid, Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Rome, etc. The disparity between political will and the people's will in the US, entire European Union, UK is truly astonishing.

Hatred for entire groups of people, based simply on their identity, corrodes people’s souls and then gradually eats their brains.

The personal tragedy that struck the Maoz Inon family three weeks ago in kibbutz [HAMAS attack] has not changed his views. On the contrary. Since that Saturday, Inon defines himself as a man on a mission. “Look at our state,” he says.

“We’ve been warning for years that we were on the precipice of an abyss, and now the biggest disaster since the Holocaust has struck the Jewish people, under the leadership of the ‘fully’ right-wing government, which will be the end of us. We have to change all our terminology and our basic assumption that Israel’s security is based on military might.”

The United States’ core problem there hasn’t changed in 60 years: How can it protect Israel, its closest ally in the region, while also bolstering stability and maintaining its partnerships with Arab neighbors? Despite the growing anger at the relentless savagery of the Washington-backed mass murder of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, not a single Arab country that has formal relations with Israel has officially broken them off. Jordan’s close political, economic and military ties with the US, the main enabler of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, sit uncomfortably with the reality that Jordan’s population staunchly and overwhelmingly supports the Palestinians in their war of liberation.

Queen Rania

King Abdullah II bin Al-Hussein, Crown Prince Hussein bin Abdullah, and entire gentleman in Jordan - Hashemite kingdom are Sandhurst Military graduate.

The same dilemma has recurred with numbing frequency over the decades: Israel is attacked by Palestinian or Arab foes; it retaliates decisively in an effort to restore deterrence; Arab civilians are killed; and calls mount for a cease-fire. The United States works to broker a formula that defuses the crisis. And an eventual U.S.-brokered cease-fire sets the stage for the next catastrophe.

For pro peace Israeli, the horrific events in Kibbutz of the past few weeks have only strengthened her belief that a diplomatic process is necessary to solve the conflict: “No matter how many times we try to eradicate Hamas – after all, we supposedly erased it a few times already – the next round will always be worse. The belief that the solution must be a diplomatic one hasn’t been undermined; it has grown stronger.

His sister Maayan Inon also says she doesn’t feel hatred or anger – just pain. “It tears me up inside that people have gotten to the point where they are capable of behaving this way. The question is, do we want to continue this round [of fighting], is this round good for us? Or do we want to look for a different, less violent, less cruel and destructive path? I don’t think we can say hocus-pocus and reality will change. But I believe that through work and growth, there’s hope and opportunity for change. We can create healthy, balanced and proper relationships.”

Quite a few peace activists and their relatives were murdered or taken hostage during the October 7 pogrom perpetrated by Hamas. In the three weeks that have passed since that terrible day, their families have had to deal not only with profound loss and grief, and dread over the fate of loved ones who are hostages or still missing – but also with hateful comments on social media and on the street.

Rewrite again, Heiman-Mina says that the horrific events of the past few weeks have only strengthened her belief that a diplomatic process is necessary to solve the conflict: “No matter how many times we try to eradicate Hamas – after all, we supposedly erased it a few times already – the next round will always be worse. The belief that the solution must be a diplomatic one hasn’t been undermined; it has grown stronger. Because this time I have been personally affected.”

Her opinions about the terror organization haven’t changed, either. “We didn’t think that Hamas was some innocent lamb. What surprised us now wasn’t that they tried [to attack], but that the army couldn’t protect us.

The Palestinian people suffer a lot from the Hamas regime, but what can you do? Hamas is our enemy right now, and peace is waged with enemies, no matter how cruel they are. We have no other choice.

It’s not easy, it will be painful, but it can happen, Heiman-Mina says. ‘Of course I feel rage toward Hamas. Clearly the people who took my mom and the people who perpetrated the slaughter are animals. Of course, the initial anger is directed at them. But that doesn’t reduce the anger I feel toward those who didn’t protect the victims, who include my mother, who helped to found the state.”

As Gaza was hit by more than 7,000 airstrikes and Palestinian civilian deaths soared, international support for Israel weakened. Now, the United States is trying to keep faith with the Israelis as it also seeks to calm the Arabs and avert a wider war.

Thomas ‘Tommy’ Frederick Vietor, former Obama advisor, founder CROOKED MEDIA

President Biden has been among the most skillful practitioners of this art of the impossible. He has embraced and consoled Israelis with his gift for empathy. But at the same time, he has quietly whispered in the ears of Israeli officials that they need to go slow, be careful, avoid a broader conflict and gradually move toward a two-state solution that can provide security.

James ‘Jim’ Baker, Secretary of the State in Iraq - Kuwait War plus Desert Storm Operation [August 2nd, 1990; January 1991], Soviet Collapsed

But Biden sacrifices Arab and Muslim America community. Gaza is very bad news for Biden’s re-election prospects. Young voters and progressives are a key part of the Democratic coalition. Many are furious about the administration’s support for Israel. If they stay home or vote for Cornel West, Biden is in big trouble. Although the United States has considerable leverage over Israel as its largest military, political and economic backer, U.S. officials have not threatened to pull support or impose any consequences for going its own way.

With Israel's ground offensive under way, it's worth considering how the Biden admin went from cheerleaders for the offensive to skeptics: On the week of Oct 7, many senior officials privately supported a massive response, viewing it as necessary to deter Iran and Hezbollah. But as days went by and Israelis briefed Washington on their plans, U.S. officials became increasingly concerned that a ground assault would turn into an open-ended quagmire.

Commander James F. Glynn, warlord of Fallujah.

A review of the 60-year U.S. effort to manage this conflict yields some themes conveyed by American officials, over and over. The parties often haven’t listened, but, in this conflict, the stakes are higher. The Gaza war is a potential Cuban missile crisis moment for the region. We’re ominously close to a wider war. To avert disaster, all sides need to face some facts that U.S. analysts keep repeating.

Describing a similarly complicated U.S. situation during the 1982 Israeli siege of Palestinian forces in Beirut, then-Secretary of State George Shultz wrote later in his memoirs: “The Arab world blamed us, as Israel’s great ally and financial supporter, for all of Israel’s deeds and looked to us to end the fighting in a responsible way.” In Lebanon, he said, “The Israelis had overplayed their power, and Beirut … lay shattered.” The United States tried, with enormous difficulty, to rebuild order.

Trying to manage conflict between Israeli leader Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader the late Yasser Arafat was “the closest thing to a diplomatic root canal I’ve ever experienced,” remarked former secretary of state Colin Powell, according to a memoir by his then-aide William J. Burns, who is now CIA director.

Israel needs better political leadership, too. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shattered Israel’s unity in the months before the war. He promoted his personal political interest over the nation’s security, and the polls show that Israelis are angry about it. His government, which promoted settlers’ rights and religious extremists rather than national security, shouldn’t survive after the war is over.

This war, for all its horror, should revive Israeli interest in a two-state solution that might provide security and stability. It should demonstrate, as well, something that U.S. officials have been arguing for a generation: that reckless building of settlements poisons the chance for a stable Israeli democracy. Perhaps Israelis will conclude that the way back from this war passes through the tradition of tough-minded peacemakers such as former prime ministers the late Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barak.

When U.S. power has been strong and clearly communicated, wars in the Middle East have been followed by peace agreements that usually lasted. The United States needs to be forcefully involved now, and friends and adversaries need to listen.

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Gazans people is normal people. Love puppy too like Caucasian and other people, other human. Via Plestia Alaqad / AlAqad, Gazans journo. 22 Palestinian journo killed. Plestia Alaqad beg to you to speak up for Palestine.

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