The Biden administration, and all its predecessors, have attempted to deflect questions about the concerted Israeli land theft from Palestinians in the Occupied Territories since 1967 by underlining Washington’s commitment to a “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The last time, however, that a US president put himself on the line in a serious way to attain any such thing was the 1993 Oslo Accords, which required Israel to withdraw from the Palestinian West Bank by 1997. When the Israeli Right, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, sabotaged Oslo and refused to withdraw, and on the contrary doubled the number of Israeli squatters 1993-2003, the Clinton and Bush administrations rolled over and played dead, letting the far right Likud Party get away with murder. At least in those days the US spokesmen occasionally politely demurred from Israeli war crimes. As time went on, and we got to Trump and Biden, the US began actively supporting the war crimes and avoided criticizing the Israeli government almost entirely.
Whenever reporters press spokesmen like John Kirby (NSC) or Matthew Miller (State Department) about continued Israeli lawlessness, their mantra is that the US seeks a two state solution. It was never a logical response, since the Israeli government’s planting of hundreds of thousands of Israeli squatters throughout the West Bank and illegal annexation of East Jerusalem was always intended to forestall a Palestinian state. Now, the Israeli parliament has let the scales fall from the world’s eyes by formally rejecting, now and forever, any establishment of a Palestinian state. https://www.juancole.com/2024/07/parliament-palestinian-gaslighting.html -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31259): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31259 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/107504353/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
