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President Biden says Israel’s retaliation was “over the top” and more humanitarian aid needs to enter Gaza

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Mark Camilleri
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Yesterday, President Joe Biden said that more humanitarian aid needs to enter Gaza and that he is working on a sustained ceasefire. He also stated that Israel’s retaliation was “over the top” and that he had convinced Egyptian President Al-Sisi to open the Rafah crossing for humanitarian aid.

According to the United Nations World Food Programme, Gaza is in a critical state lacking food and medicine with as much as 75% of the population experiencing extreme hunger. Aid trucks are stuck in the Rafah crossing due to extensive checks before they are allowed in. Fighting between the IDF and Hamas is now concentrated in the South of Gaza in Khan Younis and Rafah. A couple of days ago, a food convoy was also hit by an Israeli naval ship.

Hamas is currently offering a ceasefire in exchange for its power in Gaza, but Israel has refused this condition and has vowed to keep fighting until it roots Hamas completely out of Gaza.

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  1. The US is still sending military aid to Israel despite the fact that Biden described Israel’s actions as “over the top” – Mark Camilleri avatar
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    […] Biden and his team have been exerting pressure on President Benjamin Netanyahu and his government not to go ahead with their planned offensive on Rafah and have also been […]

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    Remember when British propaganda rag Guardian & BBC continuously referred to Gaza, prior to the Oct 7th Abomination war, as an ?open-air prison?. Now during the siege of Rafah these worthless rags depict the contrast between Gaza before and after Oct 7th. Only problem, the pictures of Gaza prior to the current war hardly depict an open-air prison!!! Or to quote the kapo Mondoweiss: ?16 year siege and blockade of Gaza?.

    This modern day ?Tokyo Rose? rag refers to post Oct 7th, according to what the Arab contributor to this bloody rag wrote on November 18th, 2023: Rashid Khalidi ? ?? It is apparent that the Israeli leadership has no clear political objective in waging this war, beyond revenge for the civilian casualty toll and the humiliating military defeat of October 7, which is presented as restoring ?deterrence?.?? This same opinion piece refers to the Jewish state as: ?a settler colonial (as well as a national) project.? This psycho mentality goes hand in glove with ?From the River to the Sea Balestine will be free?.

    This Jew-hating Mondoweiss rag sports the political-porn which depicts Hamas terrorism to ?Irish, Algerian, Vietnamese, and South African liberation movements?. Less than a month following the Oct 7th abomination by Hamas, the Mondoweiss kapo rag referred to the war as a ?genocide? war-crime. Before the month of October ended, New York CUNY ?Not in our Name? Jews protested for a ?cease-fire?. 11 days after the attack, Mondoweiss propaganda decried a famine in Gaza!

    Only a week after Oct 7th, this same rag described the Israel response as: ?A war of extermination?, even before Israel began its ground invasion! Its slander referred to Gaza, described as a ?Ghetto?. It already condemns Israel for ?ethnic cleansing? & ?genocide?. Four days after the Oct 7th abomination, Mondoweiss described Gaza as a ?Human Catastrophe?.

    Only 3 days after the slaughter carried out by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, Rev Graylan Scott Hagler puked his condemnation for this massacre preaching from his moral soap box: ?The blame rests with organizations and Zionist groups that have manipulated tax-exempt laws to fund ethnic cleansing initiatives.

    Mahmood Mamdani, an Indian-born Ugandan academic, author, and political commentator. In 1996 he published: Citizen and Subject: Contemporary Africa and the Legacy of Colonialism. Mamdani contributes to the Mondoweiss propaganda rag. Mamdani embraces the Arab propaganda rhetoric which refers to Israel as a Crusader State. He states: ?Israeli settlement organizations?use that funding to continue the history of expulsion and dispossession of Palestinians in the occupied territories??

    This kapo bloody rag abhors the current Israeli government. It slanders Bibi as readily as does post Israeli Independence Arab leaders despised Ben Gurion. But these ?Liberal American Jews? likewise express their contempt for the pre-Oct 7th anti-government protestors as equally guilty for forcing Hamas to commit the Oct 7th atrocities.

    Rev. Graylan Hagler writes: ?Also, every Israeli who stood out and marched against Netanyahu and his ultra-racist right-wing coalition?s initiatives to weaken the judiciary in Israel and didn?t connect it to Israel?s war on Palestinians is to blame. They marched, rallied, and spoke out against Netanyahu?s move towards fascist authoritarianism in relationship to Israeli civil society but did not equate the ongoing occupation of Palestinian lands with fascist authoritarianism. They are to blame for failing to open the discussion and protest wide enough to include and demand a resolution for Palestinian grievances.?

    A Mondoweiss Head Line of Oct 9th: ?Support BDS to stop Israeli war crimes in Gaza?.

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