Despite claims of promoting “humanitarian pauses,” the US has supplied Israel with $320 million worth of precision-guided bombs. The perceived cynical Western stance is seen as favoring Israel, enabling a genocide against Palestinians.
In the Western media, we are told the Israeli regime is giving short shrift to calls from the Biden administration for “humanitarian pauses” in its “war on Hamas” – which in reality is not a war but a mass slaughter of Palestinians.
The U.S. and Western media report that American President Joe Biden is “concerned” about the mounting civilian death toll after more than four weeks of Israel’s siege and non-stop aerial bombardment of the Gaza Strip, a coastal enclave equivalent to the area of Detroit.
Biden sent his top diplomat Antony Blinken on a tour of the Middle East apparently in a bid to persuade Israel to allow “humanitarian pauses” in its offensive against a largely civilian population. Israel’s premier Benjamin Netanyahu is having none of that as his military forces proceed with a ground invasion.
The charade being presented here by the Western media is that Washington is somehow acting as a restraining influence. And not a very successful one. A sort of well-meaning hapless foreign power trying to help an ally but also apprehensive about humanitarian suffering.
That’s just utter claptrap. First off, Israel is conducting a genocide against a population of 2.3 million people, in which resides a militant group, Hamas, that comprises 1 per cent of that population. This is like blowing up a lake to kill the fish.
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Hamas’s murderous attacks on October 7 against Israel which resulted in 1,400 dead Israelis (many of whom were apparently killed by Israeli security forces using excessive force) are no justification whatsoever for the subsequent annihilation of more than 10,000 Palestinians in Gaza, as well as over 130 Palestinians in the West Bank. Nearly 70 per cent of the casualties are women and children.
This is not a right to self-defense as the Biden administration and other Western governments keep repeating and thereby affording Israel a semblance of political cover. It is a license for mass murder.
This is genocide.
The notion that the United States is somehow concerned about the civilian deaths of Palestinians and is acting to restrain Israel is belied by the following:
The Biden administration has signed off on the supply of $320 million worth of precision-guided bombs for Israel. This is in addition to the bigger military aid package of $14 billion that the U.S. Congress is currently voting on.
But more than this green light largesse is the nuclear-powered military support that the United States has rushed to assemble in the region. The positioning of this fearsome power parked only a few miles away from the coastal area where Israel is carrying out a murderous blitzkrieg speaks volumes. Only the Western media are distorting the obvious monstrous criminality of what’s really going on.
U.S. Central Command which covers the Middle East region has announced the arrival of a nuclear-powered submarine. The vessel will join two nuclear-capable aircraft carrier battle groups already dispatched to the East Mediterranean.
The Pentagon also published a photo of nuclear-capable B-1 Lancer bombers newly deployed to the Middle East.
The very public announcements of these “strategic weapons” by the United States – usually locations of such assets are not disclosed – are viewed as delivering a calculated, provocative and dire threat to Iran and other Middle Eastern parties, such as Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Lloyd Austin, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, voiced the threat in a phone call with Israeli counterpart Yoav “Palestinians-are-human-animals” Gallant at the weekend. Austin “reaffirmed the U.S. commitment to deter any state or non-state actor seeking to escalate this conflict.”
CIA director William Burns is also visiting Israel this week issuing the same message of support for Tel Aviv and warning other states and parties to back off from any idea of intervening to stop the murderous offensive in Gaza.
Antony Blinken, the U.S. Secretary of State, issued a similarly stark warning to Iran and others during his latest Mideast tour while allegedly seeking “humanitarian pauses”. Blinken said, “Don’t even think about” attacking American forces in the region or otherwise face overwhelming retaliation.
When Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah gave a much-anticipated speech last week, he surprised many observers by refraining from declaring open war against Israel in support of the Palestinians. It seems Nasrallah is taking heed of the threats assembled by Israel and its U.S. patron. (And who could blame him!)
Israel’s Netanyahu warned Hezbollah that any widening of war would result in a military response that “could not be imagined”. That formulation of words can only mean a threat to use nuclear weapons.
Such crazed talk about using nuclear weapons was openly articulated by one of Netanyahu’s cabinet ministers, Amichai Eliyahu, at the weekend during a radio interview. Netanyahu later reprimanded his minister but the rebuke seemed to be for public relations show, nothing else.
The drastic positioning of U.S. nuclear weapons in the East Mediterranean and the issuing of unprecedented threats to Iran, Hezbollah and others has nothing to do with American concern to prevent escalation of war in the region. That’s how the Biden administration and the Western media are portraying it.
How preposterous to even consider that notion. No, the blunt truth is that the U.S. is weaponizing the Israeli fascist regime to carry out its genocide against Palestinians with as little opposition as possible. The threats – including the use of nuclear weapons – are to ensure that the genocide is not impeded in any way by nations and parties that might legally assist the Palestinians.
Like the rhetoric about self-defense, humanitarian pauses, and so on, the Biden administration’s purported concern to stop a regional war is another cynical ruse. It’s not about stopping a wider conflict. It’s a grotesque verbal cover for nuclear-powered genocide.
Finian Cunningham, Former editor and writer for major news media organizations.
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7 responses to “Biden and Western Media Telling Outrageous Lies…”
The six 2000 pound bombs dropped on a refugee camp were made in the U.S.A.
The Western media are playing a big role in dehumanizing the Palestinians and normalizing the ongoing Genocide by Israeli Jews and their US-Western supporters. The Israeli Nazis are specifically targeting Palestinian children (and women) with the aim of exterminating the Palestinians as people. At least 1500 innocent Palestinians, including more than 5000 children have been massacred by the Jewish Nazis in the current Genocide in Gaza. At least 13500 children are unaccounted for and missing. The UN Secretary Guterres said: Israeli Jews have turned “Gaza into a graveyard for children.”
Norman Finkelstein accurately said Israel is worse than Nazi Germany and South Africa under Apartheid.
Here in Australia, the country with the most Nazis-like anti-Muslims laws, the regime and the media (without exception) are fully behind the Nazis in Israel and make it very clear that they are proud of being complicit in the ongoing Genocide by the Israeli Nazis. Any sympathy for the Palestinians is unacceptable and have dire consequences.
This is white supremacist KKKri$tian Messianism unleashed with modern industri£i$€d greed amplified by mercenary science using an incorporated zealot faction of Judaism as their sheep’s clothing.
Caling it Nazi clouds the picture.
Israel was garissoned with the traumatised survivors of Nazi racist empire-building, financed by global banKKKers and indoctrinated with a displaced terror of their fellow semitic people, the Arabs, who find trhemselves located on ‘our oil’ reserves.
And by the same methodology of colonising language and self-indoctrination, Hamas becomes a dogwhistle coded term for ALL Palestinians, and ultimately anyone not ‘with us’ becomes ‘against us’ by definition, in their binary dichotomous Manichaen simplistics.
May G-d damn you for your selective and dishonest reporting. From the Hamas charter: From Article 7 – “The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.”
C, Are you a Jew masquerading as a Palestinian supporter? And you want to make Hamas look bad? As far as I know, that Article 7 is from an outdated Hamas charter, and has been deleted in the charter revised in 2017. Also, that quote is from a 1200-year-old Muslim text, and I’m not sure why the charter quoted it, but I don’t believe it ever could be said to be one of the intentions of Hamas. Correct me if I’m wrong.
The Zionazi gang that controls both the houses in Junited State, especially the crypted 800 years old Jubiden, a known Zionist supporter is after the Gas reserves in Gaza concentration camp.
The tiny demon, aka fake entity created by UK, is an outpost for Western imperialist terrorists for looting the natural resources of the middle east via agent rulers.
The end of this colon cancer is a must for humanity to survive. It has become an existential threat to mankind. Is it Purim?
Julius Stricker.