Before unfolding the Gaza crisis, Netanyahu was dreaming of a visit to Washington to meet and shake hands with President Biden, who was keen to show his cold shoulder to the Israeli prime minister.
Many officials in the Biden administration were rightfully content with shunning Netanyahu for his selfish move in coalescing with the most extremist Israeli politicians such as Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich. Ben-Gvir is the national security minister and Smotrich is the finance minister in Israel’s most far-right government in history, which was formed under Netanyahu’s leadership. The two extremist politicians are known for their provocative moves whether in desecrating Muslim sanctities in al-Quds (Jerusalem) or in trying to ethnically cleanse Palestinian villages in the West Bank. And these moves were being made before Palestinian resistance groups launched their October 7 attacks.
The Biden administration, however, forgot all this on October 7, blindly supporting the Israeli genocidal campaign against the besieged Gaza Strip, which produced damning evidence of Israel’s war crimes, according to a recent report by Amnesty International.
“Our research points to damning evidence of war crimes in Israel’s bombing campaign that must be urgently investigated. Decades of impunity and injustice and the unprecedented level of death and destruction of the current offensive will only result in further violence and instability in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories,” said Agnès Callamard, the secretary-general of the human rights group.
The American expressions of support for Israel began pouring in immediately after the October 7 attack. And it wasn’t just expressions, but bombs, missiles, intelligence help, and everything that enabled Israel to press ahead with its genocidal campaign. It was as if history began on October 7, not in 1948, in 1967, or at other stations in the never-ending Israel’s oppression against the defenseless people of Palestine.
The U.S. support for Israel was so blind and cruel that shocked many people around the world, including inside the Biden administration itself; how a self-proclaimed champion of human rights is getting thrown off balance by a bunch of far-right politicians in Israel; how on earth the top U.S. diplomat hopscotch the West Asia region to browbeat its leaders into accepting ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip, a longstanding desire of the most far-right Israeli politicians; and how the U.S. easily turns a blind eye on Israel pummeling hospitals, churches, mosques, and UN-run schools.
All this happened under the watchful eyes of the Biden administration, which has now succeeded in convincing millions of people, including leaders, in the West Asia region that America is egregiously employing double standards in defending the sublime notion of human rights. It’s no coincidence many U.S. allies in the region are gloating and telling critics that ‘we told you so,’ that the U.S. is using human rights as a political tool to advance its own interests when its Arab allies adopt different policies.
For many in the region, Israel has shown the true colors of America, its nature, which is a force for evil rather than good. And this becomes clearer as time passes by, and as Gazan children continue to die under Israel’s carpet bombardment of Gaza. With Gaza suffering, America will never be able to take the moral high ground.
The Biden administration’s support for Israel has already begun to take a toll on the U.S. A cyber group affiliated with the Resistance Front was able to obtain a very important and decisive correspondence between General Daniel R. Hokanson, the commander of the National Guard Bureau, and one of the senior commanders of this organization, which reveals an important fact from within the American military bodies, Tasnim reported.
According to the Tasnim news agency, after Al-Aqsa Storm, Hamas's operation against the Israelis, many American officials, including U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, announced that they will fully support the Israeli army.
Following the announcement, General Daniel Hokanson on October 9 condemned Hamas and said that the U.S. National Guard stands with Israelis and supports them in this difficult situation.
Although the American National Guard is involved in mostly domestic missions, the bureau announced that it is ready to provide field support for the Zionist regime.
But a cyber group affiliated with the Resistance Front has obtained a very important correspondence between Hokanson and one of the senior commanders of this organization, which reveals an important fact from within the American military bodies.
The correspondence was obtained from one of the internal messaging systems of the U.S. National Guard.
In an administrative correspondence between the commander of the U.S. National Guard and one of the senior commanders of the bureau on October 13, Hokanson wrote that “there is growing anti-Semitism among enlist (American) troops who are openly stating they are against Israel and do not willing to put their lives on the line for them (the Israelis)”.
By Faramarz Kuhpayeh
First Published by Tehran Times
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