Biden Redline
Updated 2024-07-15
2024-05-20 Biden’s ‘Red Line’ President Joe Biden said he would draw a “Red Line” if Israel invaded Rafah in southern Gaza. Yet there is already a river of Palestinian blood from over 220 days of Israel’s genocidal assaults in every area of Gaza. There will be an ocean of blood as Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu carries out his threatened all-out assault on Rafah, which appears to be in process. What is Biden waiting for?
Two days after Israel invaded and closed the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza, in open violation of established international treaties, Biden’s only response was that he wouldn’t go ahead with plans to provide Israel with 1,800 more 2,000-pound bunker-buster bombs, capable of destroying entire city blocks, and 1,700 500-pound bombs.
Even after Israel closed all access for desperately needed food, medicines and other supplies to Gaza, the Biden administration manipulated Congressional investigations into Israel’s use of U.S.-provided weapons in Gaza, although their use violated humanitarian law. The administration actually said that while there was “reasonable” evidence to conclude Israel had breached the international laws protecting civilians in Gaza, they “couldn’t link specific U.S. weapons to individual attacks by Israeli forces in Gaza.”
As a result, the administration claimed leeway in whether or not to restrict more offensive weapons to Israel, and Biden backed away from limiting weapons to Israel other than 2,000-pound bombs. This doublespeak has characterized most of the Biden administration’s response to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. When Vice President Kamala Harris called for an immediate six-week ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on March 4, other U.S. officials were quick to publish statements downplaying her remarks. Harris has issued no public statements regarding a ceasefire since then. Her claim that there was “clearly a humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza fell by the wayside. https://www.workers.org/2024/05/78744/
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