Unrwa, Biden and Gaza: is cruelty the point?

There is much to admire about Peter Beinart but he is not a socialist. He still thinks in terms of good and bad guys. And for him, however they wobble, the Democrats are the good guys.

There is no contextualisation of what is happening with regard to Gaza. Such as the fact that Biden stole half of Afghanistan’s foreign reserves outright and refused to allow their government access to the rest .

Of the fact that Obama’s concessions towards Cuba that Trump reversed have been kept.

Biden is nothing if not a US imperialist. There isn’t a war that he has’t advocated. The Democrats are never happier than when in a war.

Holding your nose and voting for Biden is not a serious option for those who wish to change and challenge US imperialism.

Why would anyone support another who is complicit in genocide?

It must be noted that one of Israel’s weapons is to lie. This means delays in helping Palestinians until the Israeli claims are proved to be false. Hence progression of Israel’s destruction of Palestinians.

As a dual citizen of the US and UK, I can say I am sure that most supporters of the US Democratic Party over the decades since 1945 are probably feeling much the same way as Peter Beinart (and me). My reaction is very different from his, however — so far anyway — is that in spite of Trump, who must somehow be stopped from running at all, I cannot and will not support a man who has chosen to support genocide in the face of the ICJ ruling. I lived through the US war against Vietnam, a crime of genocide by the US itself, led by the Democratic Party, poisoning both the people and the land with Agent Orange, causing a huge number of birth defects and deaths for decades afterwards. I spent five years opposing that war and was pushed out of graduate school because of it, yet I remained a member of the Democratic Party. A mistake — oh yes — but not this time, not again. This time, I believe both Biden and Trump must be stopped. There is a close connection between the different forms of US dominance they each support — the one seeks to destroy democracy inside the US to gain power, the other supports continuing US dominance of the world through military and economic power. Both can count on Israel’s support. Neither seems to care who else gets hurt in the process. But this time, the US, the UK and the European countries willing to skewer Palestine and UNRWA, will be complicit in genocide themselves. Thus, above all, I believe we must support the International Court of Justice, as this genocidal war is nowhere near being stopped.

To stop funding UNRWA is by definition classic collective punishment and In direct contravention of the rulings at the ICJ to stop any further Genocidal acts
Those responsible should be prosecuted

The UNRWA is blatantly under attack to divert attention from the ICJ ruling that the State of Israel seems to be waging a genocidal war against the indigenous people of the region. To stop the relief funding for the victims, without good reason and without proof, yet actually being done as a ploy to encourage the identified oppressor, is indeed deliberately nasty.