Joe Biden heads to Middle East amid faltering US sway
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Joe Biden might prefer not to have visited the Middle East this week, or any other week for that matter. His agenda is full.
The president's Democratic Party colleagues in the US Congress look to be heading for a bruising result in November's mid-term elections. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has touched off the most serious confrontation between the world's biggest nuclear-armed powers since the height of the Cold War. China is looking keenly for signs of American decline, as its own inexorable rise to global power moves forward.
To make matters worse, President Biden's own previous visits to the Middle East have shown the limits of American power. When he visited Jerusalem as Barack Obama's vice-president, he was humiliated by the former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he called for a freeze on Israel's settlement projects for Jews in the occupied territories, which are illegal under international law.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-62133978
Script-fed prosemitic dumbass
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President Biden, visiting Israel on Wednesday, added yet another entry to his long list of gaffes, mistakenly saying we must keep alive the "honor of the Holocaust."
The president made the flub shortly after touching down in Israel, kicking off a two-day visit with Middle Eastern country’s leaders.
Not guilty. The Israeli captain who emptied his rifle into a Palestinian schoolgirl
· Officer ignored warnings that teenager was terrified
· Defence says 'confirming the kill' standard practice
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/16/israel2
Script-fed prosemitic dumbass
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President Biden is a global statesman as he should be to represent the U.S. throughout the world as a honorable and true leader of America.
Not guilty. The Israeli captain who emptied his rifle into a Palestinian schoolgirl
· Officer ignored warnings that teenager was terrified
· Defence says 'confirming the kill' standard practice
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/16/israel2
An ' honorable and true leader of America ' would not pledge America's undying support for international criminals- unless America is inherently criminal itself, which I do not accept.
Not guilty. The Israeli captain who emptied his rifle into a Palestinian schoolgirl
· Officer ignored warnings that teenager was terrified
· Defence says 'confirming the kill' standard practice
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/nov/16/israel2
According to B'tselem's calculations (2021), some 2,171 Palestinian children have been killed in the last two decades by Israeli military actions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_in_the_Israeli–Palestinian_conflict
UN chief 'shocked' by number of Palestinian children killed by Israeli Occupation
https://en.royanews.tv/news/36505/2022-07-12
Biden can’t ignore the apartheid elephant in the room
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Joe Biden’s administration appears determined not to let the Palestinians and their tiresome demands for justice and liberation put a damper on his visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank.
Biden was asked during an interview with Israeli TV about progressive members of the Democratic Party who call Israel an “apartheid state” and support ending unconditional aid to Tel Aviv.
“There are few of them. I think they’re wrong. I think they’re making a mistake,” Biden said. “Israel is a democracy. Israel is our ally. Israel is a friend, and I think that I make no apologies.”
But there is only so much the president, intent on shoring up US hegemony in the region, can do to avoid acknowledging the apartheid elephant in the room.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/biden-cant-ignore-apartheid-elephant-room
Saudi Arabia: Biden set to meet Crown Prince amid criticism
Mr Biden will meet both the prince and his father, King Salman.
Two years ago, Mr Biden had pledged to make Saudi Arabia a "pariah" over the 2018 murder in Turkey of Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi by Saudi agents.
The prince denies involvement, but US intelligence concluded he approved it.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-62173934
Joe Biden greeted by protests during brief visit to Palestine
US president promises $300m in aid amid anger in Bethlehem and East Jerusalem at sidelining of quest for Palestinian state
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...d-by-protests-during-brief-visit-to-palestine
An ' honorable and true leader of America ' would not pledge America's undying support for international criminals- unless America is inherently criminal itself, which I do not accept.
In comparison, tRump, in particular, and his un-American gutter rats was a lawlessly hacked in and twice impeached Putin bitch and repuke sold conspire of insurrection and sedition on the taxpayer dime and a horrible atrocity against humanity.