2nd Biden admin official resigns over president's response to Gaza war
2nd Biden admin official resigns over president's response to Gaza war
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Weird they don't say who the first one was...
"Days after Israel began carrying out aerial strikes in Gaza in response to a terror attack on its territory by Hamas in early October, a senior State Department official who worked on arms transfers became the first Biden official to step down in protest. Josh Paul, who served as a director at the department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, publicly announced his exit on LinkedIn in opposition to the provision of additional military aid to Israel. In his resignation letter, Paul wrote that he believed “the response Israel is taking, and with it the American support both for that response, and for the status quo of the occupation, will only lead to more and deeper suffering for both the Israeli and the Palestinian people — and is not in the long term American interest.”"
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Here is a tough interview with Josh on his role, why he left and his current view on other areas.
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"and is not in the long term American interest."
Nope, but it is in old man Bidens interest for that juicy juicy Zionist/Jewish/Israeli vote... He obviously doesn't think there are enough Palestinians here or people who care about them and he knows that he has us by the short hairs... It's either Bomb Money Biden or Adolf Trumpler. Man I love the American voting system.
Anyone remember the turd sandwich vs the giant douche episode? Yeah that's us every 4 goddamn years.... And no, I'm not saying they're the same, I think a giant douche is miles better than a turd sandwich...
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God I miss the 2008 election. Sarah Palin was a sack of crazy, but otherwise it was beautiful.
McCain, while someone I disagreed with on almost every issue, was a classy candidate who shut down unwarranted attacks on Obama's heritage and patriotism.
Dude also saved the ACA shortly before his death - acknowledging that while he didn't like it the GOP didn't have a better plan to replace it.
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I don't think it's the Jewish vote that concerns him, it's the donations.
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There’s also Craig Mokhiber:
On October 28, 2023, Mokhiber stepped down as the director of the New York office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), four days before he was due to retire. In his final letter to High Commissioner Volker Türk, he harshly criticized the organization's response to the war in Gaza, calling Israel's military intervention a "textbook genocide" and accusing the UN of failing to act.
But he actually started his resignation in March of 2023, citing human rights violations in the West Bank.
There’s a great interview with him here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wiGp2mvFLY0
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Everyone who thought Biden was a progressive maybe forgot or wasn't old enough to remember the reason he was Obama's running mate is because he was a DINO (democrat in name only) and that was to ground some of the electricity of Obama's campaign as first black president. Obama was seen as too radical for America with his campaign promises.
Sounds weird today but at the time MSNBC was asking questions like "is Obama black enough to be America's first black president?".
Joe Biden as a VP turned out to be a liability for Obama. So they slapped some sunglasses on him and gave him an ice cream cone to stop him from making gaffes every time someone put a mic in his face. He is managed by CAA the same organization that manages actors. His persona is all PR. All people seem to remember is this manufactured persona when his actual political career is more in line with a republican and typical for a DINO serving as long as he has.
Either way you're going to have war unless we stop consenting to madness done in our name and that includes standing up for what you believe in.
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It's not like Obama was super progressive. He was essentially just 8 more years of Bush with a fresh coat of paint and a bit more charisma. Hope and change my ass.
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Genocide Joe don't care. You're still gonna vote for him.
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I'll take Genocide Joe over Treasonous Trump every chance I'm given.
I don't like either, but I will vote to keep the party that's okay with insurrection out of power every time.
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I guess treason is worse than genocide? lesser evi...
Oh even that doesn't work anymore.
If the Democrats have an ounce of dignity left they run someone else. Both Biden and Trump are not an option.
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Either red or blue is gonna win, they can do everything they want
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The Dept of Education gets all the top secret info on the War in Israel (another country)./s
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And he’s losing a LOT more votes from younger people for supporting the genocide of Palestinians without question.
Finding hundreds of billions of dollars without any question for more bombs that will kill more civilians, and yet never even raising a finger to fight for some of the these younger generations’ needs that were supposedly part of his agenda.
It’s not going to be pretty when Biden loses the election.
Young people don’t watch cnn msnbc fox etc… all of these networks never question the support of Palestinian genocide and unconditional support of israel.
The media young people watch question these things. Thank god
I can tell you don’t watch CNN or MSNBC because they totally are questioning things and are highly critical of Netanyahu, who is basically Israeli George W Bush. Young people can vote for who they want to vote for, but if they all toss their votes in the trash for a Russian plant like RFK Jr, I will be blaming them for the repercussions of a second Trump term as equally as I would blame his brainwashed cult.
They don’t care who you blame.
I do watch MSNBC on occasion. They slobbed Israels knob clear up until they killed like 13,000 people. That was apparently the line.
How is he a Russian plant? He's related to one of the most influential political dynasties in America. During the Obama years he was the left's sweetheart when he was championing for the environment. Even going so far as calling for Exxon Mobil and Koch Industries to be put to 'corporate death'.
Biden and Trump love Exxon and sucking Koch. Maybe you should blame yourself for trusting soundbites.
A vote for a fascist and a vote for a genocide supporter are both tossed in the trash. A vote for someone else is not.
It was EXTREMELY cynical and transparent when the announcement of baby steps towards marijuana legalization came RIGHT as the latest polling showed a nose dive among youth support.
Because he/the DNC clearly had the power and clout to unilaterally make that move months or years ago, but didn’t feel the need to. Having the press release drop at 4:20 eastern was such a cringe ‘fellow kids’ moment designed to distract from the ongoing injustice that keeping it schedule I for decades has done to society.
I live in Georgia and I remember how they promised if we got both our Senate seats to turn blue they would have majority and weed would be legalized along with a third stimulus check. We beat the odds and Warnock won the special election. All of a sudden it was like an wave of amnesia and helplessness hit.
I've been waiting for them to play the legalization card again
Hope the young people will enjoy having Trump as their dictator. Maybe they’ll be just dumb enough to not notice him doing anything differently on the subject.
Be complicit in genocide or you'll end up complicit in genocide. We deserve to fail as a nation if those are our choices.
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I know they have to make calculated decisions like this, but isn’t this kind of thing why Hillary lost, because she basically didn’t campaign at all in a few states because she assumed her support would stick with her because she deserved it and trump only had degenerate supporters
Florida is a red state. It's Trump's home state, It's a winner-take-all state. Biden won't be getting any electors from Florida.
If this is indeed the strategy, it's sheer foolishness. He's taking a hit nationwide just to shore up votes in a state he won't win.
I hope we're not running to win the popular vote and lose the election. Again.
An anti-Semitism scandal also wrecked Labour in the last UK election.
I think you're making this more complicated than it is. You're trying to view America's position as a domestic issue when it's an international one, and it's the international nature of the issue that explains America's position.
Although there is growing pressure and agreement that is real has gone too far, there is no appetite for suspending support for Israel.
The facts are:
That's my two cents. The enemy here as usual is nationalism. Nationalists pervert everything, including democracy. Whether it's the nationalists in charge of Israel or the ones in charge of Iran.
Just wait until instead of merely keeping Trump's draconian border policies, Biden goes even further than Trump in order to secure funding for more bombs to slaughter Palestinians.
The 2024 election will be brutal.
Genocide Joe is choosing support of Israel over the future of the U.S.
Traitor Trump ain't gonna do none different, albeit even more destructive responses.