The gap between the rhetoric and reality of western politicians on Gaza.
Biden's SOTU address really brought home how much the western governments are doing to prevent genocide of the Palestinians but it's missing the things that need to happen.
The Biden administration is critical of Israel. It is asking Netanyahu to stop the bombing and to let aid in. It is building a pier, parachuting aid in and using Malta. Yet the killing continues unabated and two million people remain in near starvation conditions. Aid agencies say they need a ceasefire to avert catastrophe and there is no ceasefire. Netanyahu could absolutely be forced to do this.
Israel has 3% of the population of America and it's economy is tanking due the war. There is bill that recently passed through the US houses to give billions more in 'aid' to israel. It was held up because it's attached to money for Ukraine, not because of the money for Israel. The US and it's allies use UN vetos to protect Israel from international accountability. Gaza burns and they send aid. Your friend is pushing people off a cliff so you build an ambulance at the bottom of a cliff and you tell people that you don't like the situation.
When western politicians talk of a two-state solution, it's also completely empty. Israel has now explicitly rejected a two-state solution: finally saying the quiet bit out loud. While the war wages and the second Nakba is done to Gaza, West Bank settlements are being further expanded. A genuine two-state solution (or any other equitable agreement) becomes even less likely than ever and due to deliberate policy of changing facts on the ground.
Debates in our media operate on a different reality. A pretend reality in which we are trying to help a human catastrophe that we are actually implicated in creating.
The Biden administration is critical of Israel. It is asking Netanyahu to stop the bombing and to let aid in. It is building a pier, parachuting aid in and using Malta. Yet the killing continues unabated and two million people remain in near starvation conditions. Aid agencies say they need a ceasefire to avert catastrophe and there is no ceasefire. Netanyahu could absolutely be forced to do this.
Israel has 3% of the population of America and it's economy is tanking due the war. There is bill that recently passed through the US houses to give billions more in 'aid' to israel. It was held up because it's attached to money for Ukraine, not because of the money for Israel. The US and it's allies use UN vetos to protect Israel from international accountability. Gaza burns and they send aid. Your friend is pushing people off a cliff so you build an ambulance at the bottom of a cliff and you tell people that you don't like the situation.
When western politicians talk of a two-state solution, it's also completely empty. Israel has now explicitly rejected a two-state solution: finally saying the quiet bit out loud. While the war wages and the second Nakba is done to Gaza, West Bank settlements are being further expanded. A genuine two-state solution (or any other equitable agreement) becomes even less likely than ever and due to deliberate policy of changing facts on the ground.
Debates in our media operate on a different reality. A pretend reality in which we are trying to help a human catastrophe that we are actually implicated in creating.
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