I helped with airlifts in Afghanistan, aid to the Ukrainian front, and building roads in Rwanda. None of it prepared me for the challenges of Gaza.
I think we’ve all come to realize that same harsh truth.
For the OG political activists who have followed politics and politicians for decades, the truth is not that surprising. For someone like me, who started obssessing over politics in 2019—and who is also empathetic and sees the good in people—it’s a little painful. I always saw Biden as the sweet grandfather figure. I mean, he meets with people after tragedies and hugs them—listening to their stories. The little boy with the stutter after the SOTU!
All of that makes it hard for me to reconcile that it’s the same man who’s sending 2,000 pound bombs to Israel knowing they’re being dropped on innocent civilians, mostly children.
It has definitely taught me a hard lesson: Don’t trust politicians no matter what (Pennsylvania Representative John Fetterman did a number on me as well. I even wore his T-shirt, believing he was a Progressive. I won’t let that cause me not to support any Progressives in the future, but I’ll be a little skeptical for sure).
Enough about my trust issues. The point here is that Biden is complicit in the ethnic cleansing (genocide) taking place in Gaza. Ahmed Khan wrote this great piece about it for the Intercept. Definitely worth taking the time to read.
I have organized airlifts of women legislators, judges, and journalists out of Afghanistan as Kabul fell; delivered ongoing aid to Ukrainian front-line villages during Russia’s invasion; worked on efforts to build runways, roads, and highways to deliver aid to Rwandan refugees after the genocide; and delivered aid shipments to enclaves besieged and under attack by the Syrian army.
None of it prepared me for the challenges of trying to bring a few trucks of food and medicine per week into the Gaza Strip.
It’s easy to point the finger at Israel, the country that is implementing the blockade of Gaza’s 2.3 million residents, half of whom are children. Yet trying to work the issue from every angle on a daily basis to get urgent medical and food aid in, I’ve come to the conclusion that President Joe Biden, for whom I hosted fundraisers and worked to elect in 2020, has signed on to Israel’s end goal of the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza.
The Biden administration isn’t just complicit by refusing to condemn Israel’s blockade of humanitarian aid — an absurd situation leading the U.S. to incur significant costs and unnecessary risks for symbolic airdrops. He’s actively supporting Israel’s oft-stated but ill-defined war aim of eradicating Hamas, a military effort with little concern for Palestinian lives or the fate of Israel’s hostages held in Gaza.
MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell got an honest, if muddled, answer from Secretary of State Antony Blinken last week. She asked him to explain the “incompatible policy” of being “the leading supplier of weapons to Israel” while, at the same time, “leading an international rescue effort” being impeded by Israeli government officials. Her question laid bare the ugly reality of Biden’s complicity in Israel’s campaign resulting in the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.
(Please click through to read the entire article on The Daily Beast website. I promote good work and if no one is visiting their site from here, it negates my purpose. Thanks. I appreciate you!😁)
