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Thursday, April 04, 2024

Show Your Hand!


The ultimatum. It took over six months, a bunch of deflection, a lot of "I stand with" and my favorite, "Israel has a right...."

President Joe Biden sees his poll numbers. They ain't looking good. His base is cracking.

The fear of another Trump term keeps growing and I fear Democrats squandered a great opportunity to separate themselves from the status quo. 

First and foremost, I am tired of hearing about Israel being "The Jewish State." That ends now! The United States built is core on the separation of church and state. Why the hell is the U.S. willing to accept a country that prides itself on a religious supremacy?

It is time to end the alliance with Israel.

The apartheid must come to an end.

With 35,000 Palestinians killed and numerous aid workers killed, Biden has had enough.

Biden on Thursday told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the overall humanitarian situation in Gaza is unacceptable and warned Israel to take steps to address the crisis or face consequences, a stark statement from Israel’s staunchest ally.

The 30-minute conversation was the two leaders’ first phone call since an Israeli strike killed seven aid workers from the World Central Kitchen in Gaza. The killings have set off a furor inside the White House and Biden has been described as reaching a new level of frustration with Israel’s campaign.

“President Biden emphasized that the strikes on humanitarian workers and the overall humanitarian situation are unacceptable,” the White House said in a statement shortly after the call wrapped. “He made clear that US policy with respect to Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel’s immediate action on these steps.”

Biden also said Israel needed to “announce and implement a series of specific, concrete, and measurable steps to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering, and the safety of aid workers.”

In the phone call, Netanyahu admitted to his American counterpart that the Israel Defense Forces were to blame for the deaths of the seven World Central Kitchen aid workers this week – and assured Biden that the Israeli government planned to announce measures to prevent such a mistake from happening again, according to a senior administration official.

Netanyahu told Biden that Israel was set on improving the tracking of non-profit workers inside Gaza and Biden affirmed that such steps were necessary, the official said. The prime minister also pledged during the call that Israel will soon announce new openings of humanitarian crossings, as well as procedural changes to limit civilian harm.

CNN reported Thursday afternoon that the Israeli security cabinet has approved the reopening of the Erez crossing between Israel and the northern Gaza strip, according to an Israeli official, in order to allow more humanitarian aid into the enclave.

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