Blinken at the podium shedding a tear for Ukrainian suffering then a later video of him shrugging his shoulders and saying “it’'s war” to a question about civilian casualties in Gaza will always disgust me. A multi-polar world can’t come soon enough.
Good article!
Our leaders should have principles. If Biden truly believes that Israel deserves support then that is his position. In that case he is doing the “right” thing.
If he believes that Israel is going too far like the US after 9/11 and committing war crimes just like those in Ukraine, he owes it to everybody he represents to say so and to stop sending the weapons.
Anything you do will have consequences for decades to come, so for fuck’s sake at least make it something worthwhile. Do something you will look back on with pride rather than have to justify while battling hand-wringing guilt and uncertainty.
Anything you do will have consequences for decades to come
And here’s an example:
The 1953 Iranian coup d’état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d’état (Persian: کودتای ۲۸ مرداد), was the U.S.- and British-instigated, Iranian army-led overthrow of the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favor of strengthening the monarchical rule of the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, on 19 August 1953.
Which, of course, eventually led to this:
The Iranian Revolution (Persian: انقلاب ایران, Enqelâb-e Irân [ʔeɴɢeˌlɒːbe ʔiːɾɒːn]), or the Islamic Revolution (انقلاب اسلامی, Enqelâb-e Eslâmī),[4] was a series of events that culminated in the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty in 1979.
Do something you will look back on with pride rather than have to justify while battling hand-wringing guilt and uncertainty.
The guys got a few years maybe to look back, which is why octogenarians shouldn’t be running the country.
The Biden administration, reluctant to change course, may say the parallels between Gaza and Ukraine are far from exact, but it also seems to know it is gradually losing diplomatic support.
There are no parallels in Gaza and Ukraine. The Revolution of Dignity spooked Putin. There is no analog of that in Gaza.
Israeli attitudes towards Hamas are comparable to the Russian pretense of the “de-nazification” of Ukraine.
But, equally, glaring national hypocrisy can come with a high price tag, in terms of lost credibility, damaged global prestige and diminished self-respect.
It is already having a real-world impact on relations between the global north and south, and west and east, creating consequences that could reverberate for decades.
The conflict in Ukraine is not similar to what is happening in Palestine.
Was hoping for some specifics but
So Joe Biden’s decision to defend Israel’s methods in Gaza so soon after, in a different context, condemning Russia’s in Ukraine, is not just an occasion for hand wringing from liberals and lawyers.
What methods? Can anyone elaborate?