Biden's Failed Doctrine

am struggling. The last several weeks have been absolutely reprehensible, and I am struggling with this current administration. I am struggling with the idea that we have a lack of choice and a lack of leadership at this moment in time. What do I mean by that President Biden had said that Israel and that Yahoo invading Rafa would be a red line? I would think that a red line would have been crossed. Oh, I don't know, thirty seven thousand

deaths ago. I would have thought that the red line would have been crossed when you had the IDF continuing to deny humanitarian aid, medicine, food, that when one of their weapons of war has been to starve two million people to death. Well, now the supposed red line that this administration has had around Rafa has transpired because net nyahou has been playing chess. I don't know what the fuck Biden is playing. To be honest, I don't even

know if he's in the game. Biden has followed the same line of thinking around Israel that all past presidents have followed. It's not new, this capitulation, this you know, ironclad quote unquote relationship between Israel and the United States. My problem with that is deep because I don't know what country outside of Israel gets aid that has absolutely no conditions to it whatsoever, just a constant stream of money does no matter how bad you act, it doesn't

matter what laws you break. You get to do whatever you want. And then if America decides to move in a different way, then guess what the entire country is anti Semitic because apparently in a democracy you're allowed to question everything as long as it is okay with the oppressor. So I find myself struggling because I'm losing friendships and

followers because I'm asking questions as I record this. This week is Holocausts remembrance and The question that I have is how do we want to be remembered in this moment? And when people utter the phrase during Holocaust Remembrance Day, never again, who are they actually talking about. What does

that actually mean? Does it mean never again to one specific group of people, or does it mean that we will never allow for there to be committed against another human being the types of atrocities that we are seeing right now that have been going on for the last seven months in Gaza and now in Rotha. I understand that Jewish Israelis were murdered. I understand that there are

people that are still being held hostage. I also understand that if Netanyahu gave a fuck about those people, that he would have been open to diplomacy, which he has not been because his goal and the goal of his radicalized cabinet inside of the Kanesset, is not about returning the hostages to their families. It is about eradicating the Palestinian people. So I'm going to say something that is going to make everybody uncomfortable. Are we okay with that?

Are we okay with saying that the ends justify the means that, oh, well, you can't follow rules of law and rules of war that have been set up because we're fighting against a terrorist organization. Then tell me what makes the IDF any different than Hamas, except one is really well funded. Because if you look at the things that the Israeli Defects Force has been doing over the last several fucking months, and you swap out Israeli and put in Russian, what kind of hot energy would be

coming out of this administration? Mass graves found at the sites where hospitals once stood, Those graves unearthed with patients and medical staff alike with their arms tied behind their backs. Tell me what threat a doctor or a patient inside of a hospital is causing to incur that type of vicious death. Tell me what the fifteen thousand children that have been murdered, what they have done well? According to Senator Cotton, you're born a terrorist, so you need to,

just as Nikki Haley said, finish the job. But it isn't just Republicans. I wish that it was, because that's where I find my faith in our government completely wavering. And when I say wavering, folks, I'm gonna say something else uncomfortable. I honestly don't know how we vote for Biden in November. I know that we have to, but I don't know how. I don't know how we stomach it. And people will tell me, as they have been on

social media, that I am doing this administration a disservice. No, you know what, I'll tell you, this fucking administration is doing themselves a disservice. You think I don't understand politics after twenty years of being in this fucking game, Oh, I have an idea of how things work and where the donors are and who gives the most money has

the loudest voice. I also understand why these young people have been occupying their fucking college campuses the way that they did in the nineteen eighties against apartheid, the way that they did in the nineteen sixties against the Vietnam War and civil rights. And you know what I will continue to say it that I don't know a student movement that has been on the wrong side of history. We have made this issue more complicated than it needs to be because we have decided whose side we're on.

But when your allies start to act more like terrorists than allies, where is our ability to question, Where is our ability to discern right from wrong? Everything is not fucking absolute. People change situations change. Victims can become victimizers. Those that are oppressed can become the oppressor. Because if you have the power and the ability to tell people how to move, when to move right, whether or not they can eat, whether or not they can breathe, how

they can live, you're not the oppressed. You are the oppressor. You become the threat to other people's ability to exist. That doesn't make you or the trauma that generations of Jewish people have experienced any less, But the facts are what the fects are right the fuck now? What is happening in the name of trauma that was committed seven of these someone years ago is not okay. It's not okay.

And that's why there are thousands of Israelis that are in the streets that are calling for the resignation of this fucking radical right wing homicidal maniac because they don't want this to be done in their names. Because the world, the world is now opening up their eyes. The world is now asking questions, how did we get to the place of October seventh? What's been happening inside of Israel and Gaza and the West Bank and Rafa and Ramala

and Jerusalem. What's been going on? What have we been funding? Because I will tell you, folks from my own experience, with my own two eyes. Nine years ago, when I went to Israel and Palestine, I saw things that caused me nightmares for over a month until I just had to shut it out of my mind. I came back broken and disturbed from the trip that I took there because I had never felt the type of fear and hatred in front of my face the way that I

felt there. And what was wild is that depending on who you are, what you look like, what your religion is, what your ethnicity is, you'll have an entirely different experience depending on who brings you there. I went with the Foundation for Italy East Peace on a journalist week long,

in depth journey through this seven decade plus nightmare. It was a crash course for me because I was going there as somebody who's only ever followed and focused on domestic issues, our own racial, racist policies, white supremacy, two tier justice system. So I was going with an open mind and open heart and excited to go to this region of the world that has only been filtered through mainstream media and Hollywood as like this center of Hell,

the accesses of evil. Right before I went in twenty fifteen, there was unrest that was unfolding in Jerusalem. There were attacks and shootings and all of this shit that was going on, and I almost didn't go on the trip, but I said, when will I ever have the opportunity to go with this small cohort of authors and academics to this region, many of which were well more versed

and studied than I was. So I went, and from the moment that I stepped off of the plane into the airport, surrounded by plane clothes, IDF officers asking why

we were there, what we were doing. I had never felt so unwelcomed upon landing in another country in my entire fucking life, just by virtue of who was inside of our group, which was a mix of Persians, black, white Jewish folks that were in this group questioned from the moment having to show papers that we were okay being navigated around, told that this is the road for Israelis,

that's the road for Palestinians. Oh my god, I'd never seen walls so fucking high that like literally block out the sun depending on what side you're on the kinds of humiliation and indignities and security systems that the Palestinian people are forced to go through. And these Raelies have no problems saying that, while we need this for our

security because they're trying to kill us. Folks, When I tell you that, it came to a point when we were eating dinner outside and whispering in our conversations because you don't know who is listening, who's in a plane, close officer, who is not If you say the wrong thing, ask the wrong question, the eye of the people inside of the West Bank, of the Palestinians, the absolute evaporation of hope like it is, Oh my god, I can't

explain it. And I was so naive because I thought to myself, well, if people really understood what was happening here, then of course they would speak out, and of course things would change. I had no idea that everyone knows, everyone that is in power knows, every administration that has ever come in to the White House knows, whether it's a Republican or Democrat. They know what the fuck has

been going on over there. It was the rest of us then until October seventh, and the month's following the masses of the American people did not know and did not know where three to four billion dollars of our tax dollars are going to every year and what it's going to fund Israel security. No, it's going to fund apartheid. Where did they learn it? America, the same place that Hitler learned how to conduct the Holocaust. All he did was do what the UK and the United States had

been doing over centuries. He just sped it up. But we don't talk about that. We think that he concocted the encampments, the internments, the chain, the torture, He was the mastermind. He made that all up. No, the fuck he did not. He had expert teachers in terms of segregationists.

Go back and look at the documents of the enslavers and what they were doing to enslaved Africans, to the Native Americans that they put on what in camps, ripping them from their homeland, the abuse, the torture, the psychological warfare. All Hitler did was speed up what England and America

have been doing over hundreds of years. That's why it was so unnerving, because he managed to kill six million people people in a few years I don't even know if we know the number truly of enslaved Africans that were killed during the Middle Passage when they arrived in the Americas, how many Native Americans were actually slaughtered. So, folks, I'm struggling because Biden isn't doing anything new. But the

moment is calling for something new. The moment is calling for honesty, for integrity, for a moral compass, none of which his administration seems to have. And so what is

this election in twenty twenty four in six months? Sophie's choice And if you don't know that book, that movie, that book from nineteen seventy nine, the movie starring Meryl Streep in nineteen eighty f google that the choice that she was given as a Polish immigrant who had survived the Holocaust when the German officers said to her, which child do you want to live? Because one of them is gonna die. It's the idea of an unbearable choice, but one has to be made. And that's where the

fuck we find ourselves now, in this unbearable place. So I am with you. It is not even a hard pill to swallow. It's like swallowing a thousand knives, right now to vote for Joe Biden, but we all know what the alternative is. But I am with you in the stress and in the strain of where we find ourselves in this moment. You are not alone. That is it for me today. Dear friends on Woke af AS always, power to the people and to all the people. Power. Get woke and stay woke as fun