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“ The past two months have brought a high-profile series of misjudgments that are blotting out positive memories of Biden’s foreign policies — perhaps permanently. First of all, the United States is making clear that it won’t stand up for international rules and norms if one of its closest allies is violating them. U.S. officials forcefully condemned Russia for bombing schools and residential buildings in Ukraine but aren’t nearly as critical of Israel for doing the same in Gaza. Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders, Human Rights Watch and numerous other organizations each day release reports and statements detailing how Israel’s military actions are violating international law and leading to the killing of children, mass hunger, the destruction of major institutions of Palestinian culture and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people.”
“Third, Biden is damaging his personal reputation for compassion and straightforwardness. The president wrongly stated that Israeli children had been beheaded during the Oct. 7 attacks. He questioned estimates of Palestinian casualties, wrongly hinting that they were overstated. Asked whether Israel was violating the laws of war, national security adviser Jake Sullivan, one of Biden’s closest advisers, callously said he would not be a “judge or jury” on that question, essentially admitting that the United States was indifferent to whether an ally was inhumane.”
“Agnes Callamard, secretary general of Amnesty International, wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that the United States is showing “a complete lack of global leadership.” Just days before he was killed by an Israeli airstrike, Palestinian poet and academic Refaat Alareer wrote on X, “The Democratic Party and Biden are responsible for the Gaza genocide perpetrated by Israel.”
Posted by F. Sheikh