{"id":252864,"date":"2024-01-29T12:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-29T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=252864"},"modified":"2024-01-24T09:24:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T09:24:50","slug":"the-four-horsemen-of-gazas-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/01\/the-four-horsemen-of-gazas-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Four Horsemen of Gaza\u2019s Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Blood Brothers – by Mr. Fish<\/p><\/div>\n

Joe Biden relies on advisors who view the world through the prism of the West\u2019s civilizing mission to the \u201clesser breeds\u201d of the earth to formulate his policies towards Israel and the Middle East.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

21 Jan 2024<\/em> – Joe Biden\u2019s inner circle of strategists for the Middle East \u2014 Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan and Brett McGurk \u2014 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 \u2014 an illusion that fuels the flames of regional war and perpetuates the genocide in Gaza.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Biden has always been an ardent militarist<\/a> \u2014 he was calling for war<\/a> 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<\/a> federal funding for abortions and supported a constitutional amendment allowing states to restrict abortions. He attacked<\/a> President George H. W. Bush in 1989 for being too soft in the \u201cwar on drugs.\u201d He was one of the architects<\/a> of the 1994 crime bill<\/a> and a raft of other<\/a> 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<\/a> of the working class<\/a> since the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act. He has always been a strident defender<\/a> of Israel, bragging<\/a> that he did more fundraisers for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) than any other Senator.<\/p>\n

TO CONTINUE READING PLEASE Go to Original – chrishedges.substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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