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  • Trump and War: Reza Montazami of Iran Interviews Mark Dankof
    Mark DankofNovember 13, 2024

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    Iranian Foreign Ministry official Reza Montazemi asks American Paleo-Conservative Mark Dankof about the election of Donald Trump to a second Presidential term and the prospects for war or peace.


    Mark Dankof looks into the Political Crystal Ball to make a forecast on the probabilities of either War or Peace in a second Trump Administration entering office in the most dangerous international scenario since the Cuban Missile Crisis.
    Reza Montazemi:


    Considering the depth of your analysis in International and Middle East developments, may I take your time and ask for your own analysis on these 3 axes or if possible, all of them?

    The 3 Axes are as follows: Give your analysis and opinion of the probable foreign behavior of America in the second term of Trump to the Iranian people:


    Mark Dankof on future American Relations with Russia and China:

    Paul Craig Roberts and Lew Rockwell wrestle with this identical issue today. On the issue of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Trump simply needs to spearhead the absolute defunding of the illegitimate Zelensky regime as a prelude to an unspoken but real commitment to the end of NATO and the end of the Neo-Conservative expansion of its activities ever closer to Russia. Global peace depends on this. An outright Russian victory, which I favor, would go further than anything else to destroy GloboHomo and the New World Order along with an accompanying absolute defenestration of the Globalist elite in both the United States and Western Europe. Will Trump rise to the challenge? I believe he will be better for relations with Putin and Russia than the Biden Administration but will fail to seize upon the opportunity to destroy the people responsible for the tragedy of Ukraine once and for all. As for China, Trump’s idea of imposing a 60% tariff on Chinese imports, especially if accompanied by ongoing American naval exercises in the South China Sea and over Taiwan would prove disastrous.


    Mark Dankof on future American Relations with Europe:

    If Trump simply pulls the plug on Zelensky and the insane Neo-Conservative policies in Ukraine, it will result in the end of NATO, the Globalist Elite in Europe, the destruction of the European Union (EU), and the rise of genuine nationalist/populist parties there who can work on keeping their respective nations out of Zio-Globalist wars, restoring European demographics in Europe, ending massive illegal immigration to European countries, rebuilding the manufacturing and industrial economies decimated by the Green hallucinations, and re-establishing moral and religious values in what has become an absolute post-Christian cesspool. This agenda mirrors what Trump voters believed they voted for in the United States last week. Will it happen, or at least a semblance of it? That is the question. I am not sanguine about the prospect. But I will be pleasantly surprised if 2025 and beyond prove me wrong.





    Mark Dankof on a future probable American Confrontation with the Islamic Republic, the future of the American Relationship with Israel in a second Trump Administration, and the prospects for war or peace in Ukraine and Gaza:(Montazami: In the case of Iran, is it a military confrontation or maximum pressure and sanctions?)


    Christian Zionist eschatology and Trump: Leading to a Christian millennial reign of Christ or the Seating of the Antichrist? (2 Thessalonians 2 and Revelation 13)
    I am among the most pessimistic of American anti-war paleo-conservatives about the prospects in a second Trump Administration for a solution to the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza and Lebanon; Israeli land theft in the Occupied Territories; and the ongoing rise of influence of Temple Mount fanatics in Jerusalem who seek to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque and replace it with the so-called Third Temple. I am equally pessimistic about Trump’s ability to resist American participation in an attack by Netanyahu and his ruling cabal on Iran. Andrew Anglin’s latest article for the Unz Review mirrors my own concern. Anglin candidly states that “Ultimately, we watched the media narrative about Trump shift after October 7th, we saw big Jewish donors and other powerful people shift towards Trump, we saw social media lighten up on the censorship of pro-Trump material, we saw Netanyahu, who has total control over US policy, demanding Trump. I am making the argument that this is the reason the Democrats stood down: he’s a much better figurehead for the wars Israel wants the US to fight. He will be better at getting young whites to sign up to go get their legs blown off in a way that has nothing to do with American interests.”


    Anglin notes what I observed about the 2024 election: It was simply too easy for Trump to win. The aftermath of November 5th was suspiciously tranquil. In contrast to the Pat Buchanan America-First campaigns of 1992 and 1996, the machinery of the Israeli Lobby and an Israeli-dominated American news media was notoriously off-duty in attacking Trump. Mike Whitney’s analysis is equally disturbing, both in why Trump was allowed to win the election of November 5th, and in Whitney’s summation of September entitled “Blame Trump for October 7th.”



    Wyatt Peterson’s The Kosher Candidate for the Unz Review also sounds the alarm. Who surrounds Donald Trump? Even with the merciful disqualification of Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley from posts in a second Trump Administration, the Zionist, Neo-Conservative crowd is omnipresent. Peterson tells us that:


    Aside from the obvious issues involved with permitting a dumbed down, drugged up population to vote, other more subtle reasons exist for refusing to participate in our national charade. Chief among these is the unfortunate reality that both candidates in our two-party system are wholly dependent on wealthy Jewish donors for campaign financing and, therefore, pledge their allegiance not to the country they’re elected to represent, but rather a criminally-insane foreign state whose interests, more often than not, diverge significantly from our own. Trump hardly differs from a Hillary Clinton or John McCain in this respect, despite 79% of American Jews voting for Kamala Harris in the recent election, according to a report in The Times of Israel.


    Following October 7, 2023, a noticeable shift in the attitudes of many Establishment insiders occurred. Influential Jews in finance, politics and media, who forcefully opposed the MAGA movement in the past, began throwing their support behind the erstwhile ‘new Hitler,’ eventually raising hundreds of millions of dollars for his presidential campaign. Among his many newfound supporters is Silicon Valley’s Jacob Helberg, a lifelong Democrat and former benefactor of Pete Buttigieg, who became a top financial contributor to Trump in the aftermath of October 7. Helberg is a senior advisor to Alex Karp — the Jewish CEO of Palantir Technology — and was instrumental in the passage of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, legislation which forced the sale of social media platform Tik Tok due, in all actuality, to its “anti-Israel bias.”Palantir (founded by Karp and JD Vance’s political mentor Peter Thiel), has very close ties to the state of Israel and has provided the Israeli Defense Forces with surveillance systems used to spy on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, as well as unsuspecting people around the world. Speaking to an audience of the Future Investment Initiative Institute in early 2024, Karp admitted that Palantir’s technology was responsible for suppressing far-right political movements in Europe.


    Aussie Cossack underscores the odious selection of Neo-Conservative Brian Hook by Trump to head up the State Department Transition Team:


    THIS is who Donald Trump just selected to lead his State Department Transition Team:

    Zionist, warmonger, neocon Brian Hook.

    In the near future, we should expect appointments of anti-Russian functionaries to key positions in the United States.

    In order to break the trail of the “Kremlin puppet”, Trump will in every way emphasize not only his distance from Moscow, but also demonstrate his intransigence with Putin’s “imperialist policy”.



    Brian Hook: Concealing his nose with the mask doesn’t conceal who he really is.

    Finally, America-First devotees to a new era of peace under Donald Trump suffer from a collective amnesia of the worst evidence of all: His sanctioning of the Soleimani Assassination. Speculation about what the 47th President of the United States will do after January 20th, 2025 is precisely that: Speculation. But what he did almost 5 years ago as the 45th President of the United States is established fact. On that basis alone, I have no optimism about his future performance in office in resisting Netanyahu and Trump’s own shadowy Zionist colleagues when it comes to a war that can only become a global catastrophe.



    Was the former 36th District Chairman of the Republican Party in King County/Seattle. He was an elected delegate to Texas State Republican Conventions in 1994 and 1996 and entered the United States Senate race in Delaware in 2000 as the nominated candidate of the Constitution Party against Democratic candidate Thomas Carper and Republican incumbent William Roth.

    Mark is the host of The Dankof Report for the Republic Broadcasting Network and the London version of The Dankof Report heard on the first Tuesday of each month for ACH and broadcast by RBN, Rense Radio, Free Speech Radio, and EuroFolkRadio.

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    Trump and War: Reza Montazami of Iran Interviews Mark Dankof Mark DankofNovember 13, 2024 Screenshot Become a VT Supporting Member Today Please keep VT Radio and VT Foreign Policy alive! Donate today to make sure VT stays on the internet free and clear of Big Tech control! Donate today: Please Donate - Click Here Iranian Foreign Ministry official Reza Montazemi asks American Paleo-Conservative Mark Dankof about the election of Donald Trump to a second Presidential term and the prospects for war or peace. Mark Dankof looks into the Political Crystal Ball to make a forecast on the probabilities of either War or Peace in a second Trump Administration entering office in the most dangerous international scenario since the Cuban Missile Crisis. Reza Montazemi: Considering the depth of your analysis in International and Middle East developments, may I take your time and ask for your own analysis on these 3 axes or if possible, all of them? The 3 Axes are as follows: Give your analysis and opinion of the probable foreign behavior of America in the second term of Trump to the Iranian people: Mark Dankof on future American Relations with Russia and China: Paul Craig Roberts and Lew Rockwell wrestle with this identical issue today. On the issue of the Russian-Ukrainian war, Trump simply needs to spearhead the absolute defunding of the illegitimate Zelensky regime as a prelude to an unspoken but real commitment to the end of NATO and the end of the Neo-Conservative expansion of its activities ever closer to Russia. Global peace depends on this. An outright Russian victory, which I favor, would go further than anything else to destroy GloboHomo and the New World Order along with an accompanying absolute defenestration of the Globalist elite in both the United States and Western Europe. Will Trump rise to the challenge? I believe he will be better for relations with Putin and Russia than the Biden Administration but will fail to seize upon the opportunity to destroy the people responsible for the tragedy of Ukraine once and for all. As for China, Trump’s idea of imposing a 60% tariff on Chinese imports, especially if accompanied by ongoing American naval exercises in the South China Sea and over Taiwan would prove disastrous. Mark Dankof on future American Relations with Europe: If Trump simply pulls the plug on Zelensky and the insane Neo-Conservative policies in Ukraine, it will result in the end of NATO, the Globalist Elite in Europe, the destruction of the European Union (EU), and the rise of genuine nationalist/populist parties there who can work on keeping their respective nations out of Zio-Globalist wars, restoring European demographics in Europe, ending massive illegal immigration to European countries, rebuilding the manufacturing and industrial economies decimated by the Green hallucinations, and re-establishing moral and religious values in what has become an absolute post-Christian cesspool. This agenda mirrors what Trump voters believed they voted for in the United States last week. Will it happen, or at least a semblance of it? That is the question. I am not sanguine about the prospect. But I will be pleasantly surprised if 2025 and beyond prove me wrong. Mark Dankof on a future probable American Confrontation with the Islamic Republic, the future of the American Relationship with Israel in a second Trump Administration, and the prospects for war or peace in Ukraine and Gaza:(Montazami: In the case of Iran, is it a military confrontation or maximum pressure and sanctions?) Christian Zionist eschatology and Trump: Leading to a Christian millennial reign of Christ or the Seating of the Antichrist? (2 Thessalonians 2 and Revelation 13) I am among the most pessimistic of American anti-war paleo-conservatives about the prospects in a second Trump Administration for a solution to the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza and Lebanon; Israeli land theft in the Occupied Territories; and the ongoing rise of influence of Temple Mount fanatics in Jerusalem who seek to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque and replace it with the so-called Third Temple. I am equally pessimistic about Trump’s ability to resist American participation in an attack by Netanyahu and his ruling cabal on Iran. Andrew Anglin’s latest article for the Unz Review mirrors my own concern. Anglin candidly states that “Ultimately, we watched the media narrative about Trump shift after October 7th, we saw big Jewish donors and other powerful people shift towards Trump, we saw social media lighten up on the censorship of pro-Trump material, we saw Netanyahu, who has total control over US policy, demanding Trump. I am making the argument that this is the reason the Democrats stood down: he’s a much better figurehead for the wars Israel wants the US to fight. He will be better at getting young whites to sign up to go get their legs blown off in a way that has nothing to do with American interests.” Anglin notes what I observed about the 2024 election: It was simply too easy for Trump to win. The aftermath of November 5th was suspiciously tranquil. In contrast to the Pat Buchanan America-First campaigns of 1992 and 1996, the machinery of the Israeli Lobby and an Israeli-dominated American news media was notoriously off-duty in attacking Trump. Mike Whitney’s analysis is equally disturbing, both in why Trump was allowed to win the election of November 5th, and in Whitney’s summation of September entitled “Blame Trump for October 7th.” Wyatt Peterson’s The Kosher Candidate for the Unz Review also sounds the alarm. Who surrounds Donald Trump? Even with the merciful disqualification of Mike Pompeo and Nikki Haley from posts in a second Trump Administration, the Zionist, Neo-Conservative crowd is omnipresent. Peterson tells us that: Aside from the obvious issues involved with permitting a dumbed down, drugged up population to vote, other more subtle reasons exist for refusing to participate in our national charade. Chief among these is the unfortunate reality that both candidates in our two-party system are wholly dependent on wealthy Jewish donors for campaign financing and, therefore, pledge their allegiance not to the country they’re elected to represent, but rather a criminally-insane foreign state whose interests, more often than not, diverge significantly from our own. Trump hardly differs from a Hillary Clinton or John McCain in this respect, despite 79% of American Jews voting for Kamala Harris in the recent election, according to a report in The Times of Israel. Following October 7, 2023, a noticeable shift in the attitudes of many Establishment insiders occurred. Influential Jews in finance, politics and media, who forcefully opposed the MAGA movement in the past, began throwing their support behind the erstwhile ‘new Hitler,’ eventually raising hundreds of millions of dollars for his presidential campaign. Among his many newfound supporters is Silicon Valley’s Jacob Helberg, a lifelong Democrat and former benefactor of Pete Buttigieg, who became a top financial contributor to Trump in the aftermath of October 7. Helberg is a senior advisor to Alex Karp — the Jewish CEO of Palantir Technology — and was instrumental in the passage of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, legislation which forced the sale of social media platform Tik Tok due, in all actuality, to its “anti-Israel bias.”Palantir (founded by Karp and JD Vance’s political mentor Peter Thiel), has very close ties to the state of Israel and has provided the Israeli Defense Forces with surveillance systems used to spy on Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, as well as unsuspecting people around the world. Speaking to an audience of the Future Investment Initiative Institute in early 2024, Karp admitted that Palantir’s technology was responsible for suppressing far-right political movements in Europe. Aussie Cossack underscores the odious selection of Neo-Conservative Brian Hook by Trump to head up the State Department Transition Team: ❗THIS is who Donald Trump just selected to lead his State Department Transition Team: Zionist, warmonger, neocon Brian Hook. In the near future, we should expect appointments of anti-Russian functionaries to key positions in the United States. In order to break the trail of the “Kremlin puppet”, Trump will in every way emphasize not only his distance from Moscow, but also demonstrate his intransigence with Putin’s “imperialist policy”. Brian Hook: Concealing his nose with the mask doesn’t conceal who he really is. Finally, America-First devotees to a new era of peace under Donald Trump suffer from a collective amnesia of the worst evidence of all: His sanctioning of the Soleimani Assassination. Speculation about what the 47th President of the United States will do after January 20th, 2025 is precisely that: Speculation. But what he did almost 5 years ago as the 45th President of the United States is established fact. On that basis alone, I have no optimism about his future performance in office in resisting Netanyahu and Trump’s own shadowy Zionist colleagues when it comes to a war that can only become a global catastrophe. Was the former 36th District Chairman of the Republican Party in King County/Seattle. He was an elected delegate to Texas State Republican Conventions in 1994 and 1996 and entered the United States Senate race in Delaware in 2000 as the nominated candidate of the Constitution Party against Democratic candidate Thomas Carper and Republican incumbent William Roth. Mark is the host of The Dankof Report for the Republic Broadcasting Network and the London version of The Dankof Report heard on the first Tuesday of each month for ACH and broadcast by RBN, Rense Radio, Free Speech Radio, and EuroFolkRadio. VT Condemns the ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINIANS by USA/Israel $280+ BILLION US TAXPAYER DOLLARS INVESTED since 1948 in US/Israeli Ethnic Cleansing and Occupation Operation 150B direct "aid" and $ 130B in "Offense" contracts Source: Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C. and US Department of State. ATTENTION READERS We See The World From All Sides and Want YOU To Be Fully Informed In fact, intentional disinformation is a disgraceful scourge in media today. So to assuage any possible errant incorrect information posted herein, we strongly encourage you to seek corroboration from other non-VT sources before forming an educated opinion. 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  • Biden Says Israel’s Netanyahu Is Not ‘Doing Enough’ to Secure Deal with Hamas Terrorists
    Frank BergmanSeptember 2, 2024 - 4:24 pm

    President Joe Biden has told reporters that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not “doing enough” to negotiate a deal with the Hamas terrorists who control Gaza.

    Biden made the remarks to reporters before heading into the White House Situation Room.

    He is convening with Vice President Kamala Harris and a hostage deal negotiating team.

    The meetings follow the murder of 23-year-old Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin and five other hostages by Hamas on Saturday.

    Biden was asked about the situation on the South Lawn of the White House as he disembarked from Marine One upon returning from his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

    One reporter asked, “Mr. President, do you think it’s time for Prime Minister Netanyahu to do more on this issue?

    “Do you think he is doing enough?

    “No,” Biden responded flatly.

    Another reporter asked the president if he had a message for the hostages’ families.

    “Yes. I have spoken to the American hostage,” Biden said.

    “I spoke to his mom and dad, and we are not giving up.

    “We are going to continue to push as hard as we can. Thank you.”

    WATCH:

    Earlier Monday, Jonathan Dekel-Chen, the father of an Israeli-American hostage still being held by Hamas, pleaded for the U.S. and Israel to broker a deal “with Satan.”

    Appearing on Fox & Friends, Dekel-Chen acknowledged that the United States, together with Qatar and Egypt, is trying to broker an agreement between Israel and “a savage terrorist organization.”

    However, he insisted that Israeli intelligence shows Hamas’s forces are depleted at this stage.

    He said Netanyahu cannot offer “an excuse anymore to not complete this deal” to bring home the remaining 101 hostages, including seven Americans, taken into Gaza on October 7, 2023

    Israel saw a massive strike on Monday after demonstrators took to the streets in droves Sunday.

    They were protesting Israel’s leadership’s failure to reach an agreement to release the hostages 11 months into the war.

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    Biden Says Israel’s Netanyahu Is Not ‘Doing Enough’ to Secure Deal with Hamas Terrorists Frank BergmanSeptember 2, 2024 - 4:24 pm President Joe Biden has told reporters that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not “doing enough” to negotiate a deal with the Hamas terrorists who control Gaza. Biden made the remarks to reporters before heading into the White House Situation Room. He is convening with Vice President Kamala Harris and a hostage deal negotiating team. The meetings follow the murder of 23-year-old Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin and five other hostages by Hamas on Saturday. Biden was asked about the situation on the South Lawn of the White House as he disembarked from Marine One upon returning from his vacation home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. One reporter asked, “Mr. President, do you think it’s time for Prime Minister Netanyahu to do more on this issue? “Do you think he is doing enough? “No,” Biden responded flatly. Another reporter asked the president if he had a message for the hostages’ families. “Yes. I have spoken to the American hostage,” Biden said. “I spoke to his mom and dad, and we are not giving up. “We are going to continue to push as hard as we can. Thank you.” WATCH: Earlier Monday, Jonathan Dekel-Chen, the father of an Israeli-American hostage still being held by Hamas, pleaded for the U.S. and Israel to broker a deal “with Satan.” Appearing on Fox & Friends, Dekel-Chen acknowledged that the United States, together with Qatar and Egypt, is trying to broker an agreement between Israel and “a savage terrorist organization.” However, he insisted that Israeli intelligence shows Hamas’s forces are depleted at this stage. He said Netanyahu cannot offer “an excuse anymore to not complete this deal” to bring home the remaining 101 hostages, including seven Americans, taken into Gaza on October 7, 2023 Israel saw a massive strike on Monday after demonstrators took to the streets in droves Sunday. They were protesting Israel’s leadership’s failure to reach an agreement to release the hostages 11 months into the war. READ MORE – Federal Judge Blocks Biden’;s Amnesty Plan as He Vows to ‘Fight’ for Illegal Aliens https://slaynews.com/news/biden-says-israel-netanyahu-not-doing-enough-secure-deal-hamas-terrorists/
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  • The Four Horsemen of Gaza’s Apocalypse. Chris Hedges
    Joe Biden relies on advisors who view the world through the prism of the West’s civilizing mission to the “lesser breeds” of the earth to formulate his policies towards Israel and the Middle East.


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    Joe Biden’s inner circle of strategists for the Middle East — Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan and Brett McGurk — have little understanding of the Muslim world and a deep animus towards Islamic resistance movements. They see Europe, the United States and Israel as involved in a clash of civilizations between the enlightened West and a barbaric Middle East. They believe that violence can bend Palestinians and other Arabs to their will. They champion the overwhelming firepower of the U.S. and Israeli military as the key to regional stability — an illusion that fuels the flames of regional war and perpetuates the genocide in Gaza.

    In short, these four men are grossly incompetent. They join the club of other clueless leaders, such as those who waltzed into the suicidal slaughter of World War One, waded into the quagmire of Vietnam or who orchestrated the series of recent military debacles in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Ukraine. They are endowed with the presumptive power vested in the Executive Branch to bypass Congress, to provide weapons to Israel and carry out military strikes in Yemen and Iraq. This inner circle of true believers dismiss the more nuanced and informed counsels in the State Department and the intelligence communities, who view the refusal of the Biden administration to pressure Israel to halt the ongoing genocide as ill-advised and dangerous.

    Biden has always been an ardent militarist — he was calling for war with Iraq five years before the U.S. invaded. He built his political career by catering to the distaste of the white middle class for the popular movements, including the anti-war and civil rights movements, that convulsed the country in the 1960s and 1970s. He is a Republican masquerading as a Democrat. He joined Southern segregationists to oppose bringing Black students into Whites-only schools. He opposed federal funding for abortions and supported a constitutional amendment allowing states to restrict abortions. He attacked President George H. W. Bush in 1989 for being too soft in the “war on drugs.” He was one of the architects of the 1994 crime bill and a raft of other draconian laws that more than doubled the U.S. prison population, militarized the police and pushed through drug laws that saw people incarcerated for life without parole. He supported the North American Free Trade Agreement, the greatest betrayal of the working class since the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act. He has always been a strident defender of Israel, bragging that he did more fundraisers for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) than any other Senator.

    “As many of you heard me say before, were there no Israel, America would have to invent one. We’d have to invent one because… you protect our interests like we protect yours,” Biden said in 2015, to an audience that included the Israeli ambassador, at the 67th Annual Israeli Independence Day Celebration in Washington D.C. During the same speech he said, “The truth of the matter is we need you. The world needs you. Imagine what it would say about humanity and the future of the 21st century if Israel were not sustained, vibrant and free.”

    The year before Biden gave a gushing eulogy for Ariel Sharon, the former Israeli prime minister and general who was implicated in massacres of Palestinians, Lebanese and others in Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon — as well as Egyptian prisoners of war — going back to the 1950s. He described Sharon as “part of one of the most remarkable founding generations in the history not of this nation, but of any nation.”

    While repudiating Donald Trump and his administration, Biden has not reversed Trump’s abrogation of the Iran nuclear deal negotiated by Barack Obama, or Trump’s sanctions against Iran. He has embraced Trump’s close ties with Saudi Arabia, including the rehabilitation of Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman, following the assassination of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2017 in the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul. He has not intervened to curb Israeli attacks on Palestinians and settlement expansion in the West Bank. He did not reverse Trump’s moving of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, although the embassy includes land Israel illegally colonized after invading the West Bank and Gaza in 1967.

    As a seven-term senator of Delaware, Biden received more financial support from pro-Israel donors than any other senator, since 1990. Biden retains this record despite the fact that his senatorial career ended in 2009, when he became Obama’s vice president. Biden explains his commitment to Israel as “personal” and “political.”

    He has parroted back Israeli propaganda — including fabrications about beheaded babies and widespread rape of Israeli women by Hamas fighters — and asked Congress to provide $14 billion in additional aid to Israel since the Oct. 7 attack. He has twice bypassed Congress to supply Israel with thousands of bombs and munitions, including at least 100 2,000-pound bombs, used in the scorched earth campaign in Gaza.

    Israel has killed or seriously wounded close to 90,000 Palestinians in Gaza, almost one in every 20 inhabitants. It has destroyed or damaged over 60 percent of the housing. The “safe areas,” to which some 2 million Gazans were instructed to flee in southern Gaza, have been bombed, with thousands of casualties. Palestinians in Gaza now make up 80 percent of all the people facing famine or catastrophic hunger worldwide, according to the U.N. Every person in Gaza is hungry. A quarter of the population are starving and struggling to find food and drinkable water. Famine is imminent. The 335,000 children under the age of five are at high risk of malnutrition. Some 50,000 pregnant women lack healthcare and adequate nutrition.

    And it could all end if the U.S. chose to intervene.

    “All of our missiles, the ammunition, the precision-guided bombs, all the airplanes and bombs, it’s all from the U.S.,” retired Israeli Major General Yitzhak Brick told the Jewish News Syndicate. “The minute they turn off the tap, you can’t keep fighting. You have no capability… Everyone understands that we can’t fight this war without the United States. Period.”

    Blinken was Biden’s principal foreign policy adviser when Biden was the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee. He, along with Biden, lobbied for the invasion of Iraq. When he was Obama’s deputy national security advisor, he advocated the 2011 overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. He opposed withdrawing U.S. forces from Syria. He worked on the disastrous Biden Plan to partition Iraq along ethnic lines.

    “Within the Obama White House, Blinken played an influential role in the imposition of sanctions against Russia over the 2014 invasion of Crimea and eastern Ukraine, and subsequently led ultimately unsuccessful calls for the U.S. to arm Ukraine,” according to the Atlantic Council, NATO’s unofficial think tank.

    Image: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Oct. 12, 2023. – Secretary Antony Blinken on X



    When Blinken landed in Israel following the attacks by Hamas and other resistance groups on Oct. 7, he announced at a press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

    “I come before you not only as the United States Secretary of State, but also as a Jew.”

    He attempted, on Israel’s behalf, to lobby Arab leaders to accept the 2.3 million Palestinian refugees Israel intends to ethnically cleanse from Gaza, a request that evoked outrage among Arab leaders.

    Sullivan, Biden’s national security advisor, and McGurk, are consummate opportunists, Machiavellian bureaucrats who cater to the reigning centers of power, including the Israel lobby.

    Sullivan was the chief architect of Hillary Clinton’s Asia pivot. He backed the corporate and investor rights Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, which was sold as helping the U.S. contain China. Trump ultimately killed the trade agreement in the face of mass opposition from the U.S. public. His focus is thwarting a rising China, including through the expansion of the U.S. military.

    While not focused on the Middle East, Sullivan is a foreign policy hawk who has a knee jerk embrace of force to shape the world to U.S. demands. He embraces military Keynesianism, arguing that massive government spending on the weapons industry benefits the domestic economy.

    In a 7,000-word essay for Foreign Affairs magazine published five days before the Oct. 7 attacks, which left some 1,200 Israelis dead, Sullivan exposed his lack of understanding of the dynamics of the Middle East.



    Screenshot from The New York Times

    “Although the Middle East remains beset with perennial challenges,” he writes in the original version of the essay, “the region is quieter than it has been for decades,” adding that in the face of “serious” frictions, “we have de-escalated crises in Gaza.”

    Sullivan ignores Palestinian aspirations and Washington’s rhetorical backing for a two-state solution in the article, hastily rewritten in the online version after the Oct. 7 attacks. He writes in his original piece:

    At a meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, last year, the president set forth his policy for the Middle East in an address to the leaders of members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan. His approach returns discipline to US policy. It emphasizes deterring aggression, de-escalating conflicts, and integrating the region through joint infrastructure projects and new partnerships, including between Israel and its Arab neighbors.

    McGurk, the deputy assistant to President Biden and the coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa at the White House National Security Council, was a chief architect of Bush’s “surge” in Iraq, which accelerated the bloodletting. He worked as a legal advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority and the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad. He then became Trump’s anti-ISIS czar.

    He does not speak Arabic — none of the four men does — and came to Iraq with no knowledge of its history, peoples or culture. Nevertheless, he helped draft Iraq’s interim constitution and oversaw the legal transition from the Coalition Provisional Authority to an Interim Iraqi Government led by Prime Minister Ayad Allawi. McGurk was an early backer of Nouri al-Maliki, who was Iraq’s prime minister between 2006 and 2014. Al-Maliki built a Shi’ite-controlled sectarian state that deeply alienated Sunni Arabs and Kurds. In 2005, McGurk transferred to the National Security Council (NSC), where he served as director for Iraq, and later as special assistant to the president and senior director for Iraq and Afghanistan. He served on the NSC staff from 2005 to 2009. In 2015, he was appointed as Obama’s Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL. He was retained by Trump until his resignation in Dec. 2018.

    An article in April 2021 titled “Brett McGurk: A Hero of Our Times,” in New Lines Magazine by former BBC foreign correspondent Paul Wood, paints a scathing portrait of McGurk. Wood writes:

    A senior Western diplomat who served in Baghdad told me that McGurk had been an absolute disaster for Iraq. “He is a consummate operator in Washington, but I saw no sign that he was interested in Iraqis or Iraq as a place full of real people. It was simply a bureaucratic and political challenge for him.” One critic who was in Baghdad with McGurk called him Machiavelli reincarnated. “It’s intellect plus ambition plus the utter ruthlessness to rise no matter the cost.”

    [….]

    A U.S. diplomat who was in the embassy when McGurk arrived found his steady advance astonishing. “Brett only meets people who speak English. … There are like four people in the government who speak English. And somehow he’s now the person who should decide the fate of Iraq? How did this happen?”

    Even those who didn’t like McGurk had to admit that he had a formidable intellect — and was a hard worker. He was also a gifted writer, no surprise as he had clerked for Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist. His rise mirrored that of an Iraqi politician named Nouri al-Maliki, one careerist helping the other. That is McGurk’s tragedy — and Iraq’s.

    [….]

    McGurk’s critics say his lack of Arabic meant he missed the vicious, sectarian undertones of what al-Maliki was saying in meetings right from the start. Translators censored or failed to keep up. Like many Americans in Iraq, McGurk was deaf to what was happening around him.

    Al-Maliki was the consequence of two mistakes by the U.S. How much McGurk had to do with them remains in dispute. The first mistake was the “80 Percent Solution” for ruling Iraq. The Sunni Arabs were mounting a bloody insurgency, but they were just 20% of the population. The theory was that you could run Iraq with the Kurds and the Shiites. The second error was to identify the Shiites with hardline, religious parties backed by Iran. Al-Maliki, a member of the religious Da’wa Party, was the beneficiary of this.

    In a piece in HuffPost in May 2022 by Akbar Shahid Ahmed, titled “Biden’s Top Middle East Advisor ‘Torched the House and Showed Up With a Firehose,’” McGurk is described by a colleague, who asked not to be named, as “the most talented bureaucrat they’ve ever seen, with the worst foreign policy judgment they’ve ever seen.”

    McGurk, like others in the Biden administration, is bizarrely focused on what comes after Israel’s genocidal campaign, rather than trying to halt it. McGurk proposed denying humanitarian aid and refusing to implement a pause in the fighting in Gaza until all the Israeli hostages were freed. Biden and his three closest policy advisors have called for the Palestinian Authority — an Israeli puppet regime that is reviled by most Palestinians — to take control of Gaza once Israel finishes leveling it. They have called on Israel — since Oct. 7 — to take steps towards a two-state solution, a plan rejected in an humiliating public rebuke to the the Biden White House by Netanyahu.

    The Biden White House spends more time talking to the Israelis and Saudis, who are being lobbied to normalize relations with Israel and help rebuild Gaza, than the Palestinians, who are at best, an afterthought. It believes the key to ending Palestinian resistance is found in Riyadh, summed up in a top-secret document peddled by McGurk called the “Jerusalem-Jeddah Pact,” the HuffPost reported. It is unable or unwilling to curb Israel’s bloodlust, which included missile strikes in a residential neighborhood in Damascus, Syria, on Saturday that killed five military advisors from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and a drone attack in South Lebanon on Sunday, which killed two senior members of Hezbollah. These Israeli provocations will not go unanswered, evidenced by the ballistic missiles and rockets launched on Sunday by militants in western Iraq that targeted U.S. personnel stationed at the al-Assad Airbase.

    The Alice-in-Wonderland idea that once the slaughter in Gaza ends a diplomatic pact between Israel and Saudi Arabia will be the key to regional stability is stupefying. Israel’s genocide, and Washington’s complicity, is shredding U.S. credibility and influence, especially in the Global South and the Muslim world. It ensures another generation of enraged Palestinians — whose families have been obliterated and whose homes have been destroyed — seeking vengeance.

    The policies embraced by the Biden administration not only blithely ignore the realities in the Arab world, but the realities of an extremist Israeli state that, with Congress bought and paid for by the Israel lobby, couldn’t care less what the Biden White House dreams up. Israel has no intention of creating a viable Palestinian state. Its goal is the ethnic cleansing of the 2.3 million Palestinians from Gaza and the annexation of Gaza by Israel. And when Israel is done with Gaza, it will turn on the West Bank, where Israeli raids now occur on an almost nightly basis and where thousands have been arrested and detained without charge since Oct. 7.

    Those running the show in the Biden White House are chasing after rainbows. The march of folly led by these four blind mice perpetuates the cataclysmic suffering of the Palestinians, stokes a regional war and presages another tragic and self-defeating chapter in the two decades of U.S. military fiascos in the Middle East.

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    The Four Horsemen of Gaza’s Apocalypse. Chris Hedges Joe Biden relies on advisors who view the world through the prism of the West’s civilizing mission to the “lesser breeds” of the earth to formulate his policies towards Israel and the Middle East. All Global Research articles can be read in 51 languages by activating the Translate Website button below the author’s name (only available in desktop version). To receive Global Research’s Daily Newsletter (selected articles), click here. Click the share button above to email/forward this article to your friends and colleagues. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter and subscribe to our Telegram Channel. Feel free to repost and share widely Global Research articles. New Year Donation Drive: Global Research Is Committed to the “Unspoken Truth” *** Joe Biden’s inner circle of strategists for the Middle East — Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan and Brett McGurk — have little understanding of the Muslim world and a deep animus towards Islamic resistance movements. They see Europe, the United States and Israel as involved in a clash of civilizations between the enlightened West and a barbaric Middle East. They believe that violence can bend Palestinians and other Arabs to their will. They champion the overwhelming firepower of the U.S. and Israeli military as the key to regional stability — an illusion that fuels the flames of regional war and perpetuates the genocide in Gaza. In short, these four men are grossly incompetent. They join the club of other clueless leaders, such as those who waltzed into the suicidal slaughter of World War One, waded into the quagmire of Vietnam or who orchestrated the series of recent military debacles in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Ukraine. They are endowed with the presumptive power vested in the Executive Branch to bypass Congress, to provide weapons to Israel and carry out military strikes in Yemen and Iraq. This inner circle of true believers dismiss the more nuanced and informed counsels in the State Department and the intelligence communities, who view the refusal of the Biden administration to pressure Israel to halt the ongoing genocide as ill-advised and dangerous. Biden has always been an ardent militarist — he was calling for war with Iraq five years before the U.S. invaded. He built his political career by catering to the distaste of the white middle class for the popular movements, including the anti-war and civil rights movements, that convulsed the country in the 1960s and 1970s. He is a Republican masquerading as a Democrat. He joined Southern segregationists to oppose bringing Black students into Whites-only schools. He opposed federal funding for abortions and supported a constitutional amendment allowing states to restrict abortions. He attacked President George H. W. Bush in 1989 for being too soft in the “war on drugs.” He was one of the architects of the 1994 crime bill and a raft of other draconian laws that more than doubled the U.S. prison population, militarized the police and pushed through drug laws that saw people incarcerated for life without parole. He supported the North American Free Trade Agreement, the greatest betrayal of the working class since the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act. He has always been a strident defender of Israel, bragging that he did more fundraisers for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) than any other Senator. “As many of you heard me say before, were there no Israel, America would have to invent one. We’d have to invent one because… you protect our interests like we protect yours,” Biden said in 2015, to an audience that included the Israeli ambassador, at the 67th Annual Israeli Independence Day Celebration in Washington D.C. During the same speech he said, “The truth of the matter is we need you. The world needs you. Imagine what it would say about humanity and the future of the 21st century if Israel were not sustained, vibrant and free.” The year before Biden gave a gushing eulogy for Ariel Sharon, the former Israeli prime minister and general who was implicated in massacres of Palestinians, Lebanese and others in Palestine, Jordan and Lebanon — as well as Egyptian prisoners of war — going back to the 1950s. He described Sharon as “part of one of the most remarkable founding generations in the history not of this nation, but of any nation.” While repudiating Donald Trump and his administration, Biden has not reversed Trump’s abrogation of the Iran nuclear deal negotiated by Barack Obama, or Trump’s sanctions against Iran. He has embraced Trump’s close ties with Saudi Arabia, including the rehabilitation of Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman, following the assassination of the Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2017 in the consulate of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul. He has not intervened to curb Israeli attacks on Palestinians and settlement expansion in the West Bank. He did not reverse Trump’s moving of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, although the embassy includes land Israel illegally colonized after invading the West Bank and Gaza in 1967. As a seven-term senator of Delaware, Biden received more financial support from pro-Israel donors than any other senator, since 1990. Biden retains this record despite the fact that his senatorial career ended in 2009, when he became Obama’s vice president. Biden explains his commitment to Israel as “personal” and “political.” He has parroted back Israeli propaganda — including fabrications about beheaded babies and widespread rape of Israeli women by Hamas fighters — and asked Congress to provide $14 billion in additional aid to Israel since the Oct. 7 attack. He has twice bypassed Congress to supply Israel with thousands of bombs and munitions, including at least 100 2,000-pound bombs, used in the scorched earth campaign in Gaza. Israel has killed or seriously wounded close to 90,000 Palestinians in Gaza, almost one in every 20 inhabitants. It has destroyed or damaged over 60 percent of the housing. The “safe areas,” to which some 2 million Gazans were instructed to flee in southern Gaza, have been bombed, with thousands of casualties. Palestinians in Gaza now make up 80 percent of all the people facing famine or catastrophic hunger worldwide, according to the U.N. Every person in Gaza is hungry. A quarter of the population are starving and struggling to find food and drinkable water. Famine is imminent. The 335,000 children under the age of five are at high risk of malnutrition. Some 50,000 pregnant women lack healthcare and adequate nutrition. And it could all end if the U.S. chose to intervene. “All of our missiles, the ammunition, the precision-guided bombs, all the airplanes and bombs, it’s all from the U.S.,” retired Israeli Major General Yitzhak Brick told the Jewish News Syndicate. “The minute they turn off the tap, you can’t keep fighting. You have no capability… Everyone understands that we can’t fight this war without the United States. Period.” Blinken was Biden’s principal foreign policy adviser when Biden was the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee. He, along with Biden, lobbied for the invasion of Iraq. When he was Obama’s deputy national security advisor, he advocated the 2011 overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya. He opposed withdrawing U.S. forces from Syria. He worked on the disastrous Biden Plan to partition Iraq along ethnic lines. “Within the Obama White House, Blinken played an influential role in the imposition of sanctions against Russia over the 2014 invasion of Crimea and eastern Ukraine, and subsequently led ultimately unsuccessful calls for the U.S. to arm Ukraine,” according to the Atlantic Council, NATO’s unofficial think tank. Image: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Oct. 12, 2023. – Secretary Antony Blinken on X When Blinken landed in Israel following the attacks by Hamas and other resistance groups on Oct. 7, he announced at a press conference with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “I come before you not only as the United States Secretary of State, but also as a Jew.” He attempted, on Israel’s behalf, to lobby Arab leaders to accept the 2.3 million Palestinian refugees Israel intends to ethnically cleanse from Gaza, a request that evoked outrage among Arab leaders. Sullivan, Biden’s national security advisor, and McGurk, are consummate opportunists, Machiavellian bureaucrats who cater to the reigning centers of power, including the Israel lobby. Sullivan was the chief architect of Hillary Clinton’s Asia pivot. He backed the corporate and investor rights Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, which was sold as helping the U.S. contain China. Trump ultimately killed the trade agreement in the face of mass opposition from the U.S. public. His focus is thwarting a rising China, including through the expansion of the U.S. military. While not focused on the Middle East, Sullivan is a foreign policy hawk who has a knee jerk embrace of force to shape the world to U.S. demands. He embraces military Keynesianism, arguing that massive government spending on the weapons industry benefits the domestic economy. In a 7,000-word essay for Foreign Affairs magazine published five days before the Oct. 7 attacks, which left some 1,200 Israelis dead, Sullivan exposed his lack of understanding of the dynamics of the Middle East. Screenshot from The New York Times “Although the Middle East remains beset with perennial challenges,” he writes in the original version of the essay, “the region is quieter than it has been for decades,” adding that in the face of “serious” frictions, “we have de-escalated crises in Gaza.” Sullivan ignores Palestinian aspirations and Washington’s rhetorical backing for a two-state solution in the article, hastily rewritten in the online version after the Oct. 7 attacks. He writes in his original piece: At a meeting in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, last year, the president set forth his policy for the Middle East in an address to the leaders of members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan. His approach returns discipline to US policy. It emphasizes deterring aggression, de-escalating conflicts, and integrating the region through joint infrastructure projects and new partnerships, including between Israel and its Arab neighbors. McGurk, the deputy assistant to President Biden and the coordinator for the Middle East and North Africa at the White House National Security Council, was a chief architect of Bush’s “surge” in Iraq, which accelerated the bloodletting. He worked as a legal advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority and the U.S. ambassador in Baghdad. He then became Trump’s anti-ISIS czar. He does not speak Arabic — none of the four men does — and came to Iraq with no knowledge of its history, peoples or culture. Nevertheless, he helped draft Iraq’s interim constitution and oversaw the legal transition from the Coalition Provisional Authority to an Interim Iraqi Government led by Prime Minister Ayad Allawi. McGurk was an early backer of Nouri al-Maliki, who was Iraq’s prime minister between 2006 and 2014. Al-Maliki built a Shi’ite-controlled sectarian state that deeply alienated Sunni Arabs and Kurds. In 2005, McGurk transferred to the National Security Council (NSC), where he served as director for Iraq, and later as special assistant to the president and senior director for Iraq and Afghanistan. He served on the NSC staff from 2005 to 2009. In 2015, he was appointed as Obama’s Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL. He was retained by Trump until his resignation in Dec. 2018. An article in April 2021 titled “Brett McGurk: A Hero of Our Times,” in New Lines Magazine by former BBC foreign correspondent Paul Wood, paints a scathing portrait of McGurk. Wood writes: A senior Western diplomat who served in Baghdad told me that McGurk had been an absolute disaster for Iraq. “He is a consummate operator in Washington, but I saw no sign that he was interested in Iraqis or Iraq as a place full of real people. It was simply a bureaucratic and political challenge for him.” One critic who was in Baghdad with McGurk called him Machiavelli reincarnated. “It’s intellect plus ambition plus the utter ruthlessness to rise no matter the cost.” [….] A U.S. diplomat who was in the embassy when McGurk arrived found his steady advance astonishing. “Brett only meets people who speak English. … There are like four people in the government who speak English. And somehow he’s now the person who should decide the fate of Iraq? How did this happen?” Even those who didn’t like McGurk had to admit that he had a formidable intellect — and was a hard worker. He was also a gifted writer, no surprise as he had clerked for Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist. His rise mirrored that of an Iraqi politician named Nouri al-Maliki, one careerist helping the other. That is McGurk’s tragedy — and Iraq’s. [….] McGurk’s critics say his lack of Arabic meant he missed the vicious, sectarian undertones of what al-Maliki was saying in meetings right from the start. Translators censored or failed to keep up. Like many Americans in Iraq, McGurk was deaf to what was happening around him. Al-Maliki was the consequence of two mistakes by the U.S. How much McGurk had to do with them remains in dispute. The first mistake was the “80 Percent Solution” for ruling Iraq. The Sunni Arabs were mounting a bloody insurgency, but they were just 20% of the population. The theory was that you could run Iraq with the Kurds and the Shiites. The second error was to identify the Shiites with hardline, religious parties backed by Iran. Al-Maliki, a member of the religious Da’wa Party, was the beneficiary of this. In a piece in HuffPost in May 2022 by Akbar Shahid Ahmed, titled “Biden’s Top Middle East Advisor ‘Torched the House and Showed Up With a Firehose,’” McGurk is described by a colleague, who asked not to be named, as “the most talented bureaucrat they’ve ever seen, with the worst foreign policy judgment they’ve ever seen.” McGurk, like others in the Biden administration, is bizarrely focused on what comes after Israel’s genocidal campaign, rather than trying to halt it. McGurk proposed denying humanitarian aid and refusing to implement a pause in the fighting in Gaza until all the Israeli hostages were freed. Biden and his three closest policy advisors have called for the Palestinian Authority — an Israeli puppet regime that is reviled by most Palestinians — to take control of Gaza once Israel finishes leveling it. They have called on Israel — since Oct. 7 — to take steps towards a two-state solution, a plan rejected in an humiliating public rebuke to the the Biden White House by Netanyahu. The Biden White House spends more time talking to the Israelis and Saudis, who are being lobbied to normalize relations with Israel and help rebuild Gaza, than the Palestinians, who are at best, an afterthought. It believes the key to ending Palestinian resistance is found in Riyadh, summed up in a top-secret document peddled by McGurk called the “Jerusalem-Jeddah Pact,” the HuffPost reported. It is unable or unwilling to curb Israel’s bloodlust, which included missile strikes in a residential neighborhood in Damascus, Syria, on Saturday that killed five military advisors from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and a drone attack in South Lebanon on Sunday, which killed two senior members of Hezbollah. These Israeli provocations will not go unanswered, evidenced by the ballistic missiles and rockets launched on Sunday by militants in western Iraq that targeted U.S. personnel stationed at the al-Assad Airbase. The Alice-in-Wonderland idea that once the slaughter in Gaza ends a diplomatic pact between Israel and Saudi Arabia will be the key to regional stability is stupefying. Israel’s genocide, and Washington’s complicity, is shredding U.S. credibility and influence, especially in the Global South and the Muslim world. It ensures another generation of enraged Palestinians — whose families have been obliterated and whose homes have been destroyed — seeking vengeance. The policies embraced by the Biden administration not only blithely ignore the realities in the Arab world, but the realities of an extremist Israeli state that, with Congress bought and paid for by the Israel lobby, couldn’t care less what the Biden White House dreams up. Israel has no intention of creating a viable Palestinian state. Its goal is the ethnic cleansing of the 2.3 million Palestinians from Gaza and the annexation of Gaza by Israel. And when Israel is done with Gaza, it will turn on the West Bank, where Israeli raids now occur on an almost nightly basis and where thousands have been arrested and detained without charge since Oct. 7. Those running the show in the Biden White House are chasing after rainbows. The march of folly led by these four blind mice perpetuates the cataclysmic suffering of the Palestinians, stokes a regional war and presages another tragic and self-defeating chapter in the two decades of U.S. military fiascos in the Middle East. * Note to readers: Please click the share button above. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter and subscribe to our Telegram Channel. Feel free to repost and share widely Global Research articles. 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