Biden’s Plan For Gaza

Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/)

U.S. President Joe Biden wants to avoid being named as a co-defendant in the upcoming referral by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to recommend to the International Criminal Court (ICC) that it prosecute Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for genocide in Gaza. However, Biden has repeatedly committed the U.S. Government to continue to donate to the Government of Israel all of the weapons and satellite intelligence that Israel is using in order to carry out its ‘war against Hamas’ (their euphemism, for this genocide to get rid of Gazans). So, the strategy that Biden has settled upon to enable the ICJ to not name Biden as a defendant, is Biden’s repeated public condemnations of what Israel is doing, and especially America’s very public air-drops of food-aid into Gaza, which will soon be increased. (Those are merely PR measures while America continues to supply Israel the weapons, ammunition, and intelligence assistance, that enables continuation of the genocide in Gaza.)

On March 1st. Robert Ford — who had retired from having served as U.S. Ambassador in Syria and in Iraq while his Government was (and is) wreaking bloody mayhem upon the residents there by arming jihadists and other terrorist groups in those countries as U.S. regime-change proxy forces to control or replace those Governments — tweeted:

https://twitter.com/fordrs58/status/1763649504018841699

https://archive.is/8ypbX

Robert Ford

@fordrs58

i’ve seen Israel humiliate previous US administrations, but aside from murderous 1967 Israeli airstrike against US navy ship Liberty, now forcing USA to do airdrops of aid to Gaza as if USA is no better than Egypt & Jordan is Israel’s worst humiliation of USA i’ve ever seen.

7:36 PM · Mar 1, 2024

https://twitter.com/fordrs58/status/1763651982638624819

https://archive.is/KcVVs

Robert Ford

@fordrs58

i should add that USA will do humanitarian aid airdrops to Gazans if the Israeli Air Force graciously agrees not to shoot down the American planes over Gaza.

7:46 PM · Mar 1, 2024

https://twitter.com/fordrs58/status/1763652520520389003

https://archive.is/Ls1Bd

Robert Ford

@fordrs58

I’m crying for Gazans. And for my own lost country.

7:48 PM · Mar 1, 2024

He was saying that it’s only Israel’s fault. (This happens to be consistent with Biden’s strategy.) But how can he say that in light of the following?:

On February 13th, Politico headlined that “US won’t punish Israel for Rafah op that doesn’t protect civilians” and said that the Biden Administration has informed the Netanyahu Administration that if it decides that it has no practicable way to expel the Gazans to foreign lands (which Israel’s Government — assisted by America’s Government — has been trying to do ever since October 16th) then the U.S. Government won’t punish Israel if it simply slaughters all of them. “No reprimand plans are in the works, meaning Israeli forces could enter the city and harm [Politico’s euphemism for slaughter] civilians without facing American consequences [meaning punishment]. More than half of the enclave’s 2.3 million population has fled to Rafah.” So: that would entail slaughtering 1.15 million Gazans there. The Politico article makes no mention of what would be done with the 1.15 million survivors, the Gazans who haven’t yet gotten to Raffah, but if Netanyahu would halt the extermination program at that point, a rationale for discontinuing the operation there would be hard if not impossible to imagine — Israel would already have slaughtered at least half of the Gazans.

And this slaughter of Gazans is being done with U.S.-made weapons and military intelligence, and so it is actually a joint U.S. and Israeli operation. Israel’s Jewish News Service reported on November 27th:

Israel’s dependence on the United States was stated bluntly by retired IDF Maj. General Yitzhak Brick in an interview earlier this week.

“All of our missiles, the ammunition, the precision-guided bombs, all the airplanes and bombs, it’s all from the U.S. 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.”

On February 28th, Reuters headlined “Michigan’s strong ‘uncommitted’ vote shows Israel impact on Biden support” and opened “DEARBORN, Michigan/WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) – Joe Biden’s campaign and top Democratic officials vowed to double down on efforts to win over voters as the U.S. president aims to solve conflicts in the Middle East, after Michigan registered a stronger-than-anticipated protest vote over his support of Israel.” It included this line from Biden’s campaign — with no question (far less rebuttal) being presented about it: “Biden’s campaign will continue to ‘make our case in the state – to both uncommitted voters and the entire Michigan constituency,’ a senior campaign official said as the results were tallied. ‘The President will continue to work for peace in the Middle East.’” But how can that be, given that as Politico had headlined on February 13th, “US won’t punish Israel for Rafah op that doesn’t protect civilians”?

Biden has pressed harder on Congress than anyone to authorize an additional $14 billion of such assistance to be donated by U.S. taxpayers, to Israel, in order to complete what it’s doing to Gaza — whatever that may turn out to be — than he has ever pressed Congress to approve anything (except donating even more weapons and intelligence to Ukraine too). And, then, on January 29th, YNET News, the most popular internet portal in Israel, headlined “Global ammunition shortage forces Israel to limit bombings”, and they reported that “Over 25,000 tons of weapons have been delivered to Israel via approximately 280 aircraft and 40 ships from the U.S. since the onset of the conflict.” So, obviously, Biden, rather than being  “The President [who] will continue to work for peace in the Middle East,” is instead actually an equal partner along with Netanyahu, in carrying out this Israel-U.S.-planned genocide.

Consequently, Biden condemns Israel’s slaughter of Gazans, and air-drops food to Gazans who are being starved to death by Israel’s siege against Gazans. Those responses by him are publicity stunts instead of policies.

In this type of ‘democracy’, the public are treated like gulls to be fooled, instead of like citizens to be served. But Biden might be just as concerned to give judges at the ICJ and ICC excuses to not name him as a defendant, as he is to provide American voters excuses to not blame him for providing, from U.S. taxpayers, indispensable assistance to Israel’s ethnic cleansing or maybe ultimately even genocide, to get rid of the Gazans.

Whereas getting rid of Gazans is very popular inside Israel, it’s unpopular everywhere else, and Biden certainly knows this.

“Majority of Israeli Jews ‘support the removal of Palestinians from Gaza’: Journalist”  Al Jazeera English, 28 December 2023

Biden doesn’t need votes from Israelis, but he needs votes from Americans, and if he becomes named in a criminal referral to the ICC, then he will get less of those, and he cares about that.

Biden’s plan for Gaza is for him to be re-elected, and to stay out of prison — just like Trump’s plan is and will be. They’re remarkably similar, but employ different PR.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.