We Can’t Expect Joe Biden to Stop Supporting Apartheid
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Nathan Thrall is the author of the remarkable A Day in the Life of Abed Salama, published by the New York Review of Books in March, through which the reality of Palestinian life under Israeli rule is laid bare.
In this interview with Jacobin magazine, Thrall reflects on this reality and what we might expect from Pres Biden.
He pulls no punches – here are some quotes:
- But the real issue is not one of pragmatism. The real issue is one of basic justice and morality. After more than seven decades of fragmentation, the Palestinian people are still one. Why do they have less right to live as one people than Israeli Jews do?
- Liberal Zionists like to claim that Israel is merely at risk of one day becoming an apartheid state if it doesn’t come to its senses and end the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. But the mere possibility that apartheid might end in the future doesn’t mean it is not apartheid now.
- if the Biden administration intervenes in Israel-Palestine, it will be to help prop up the apartheid system, not to dismantle it… The Palestinian Authority has no credibility, and that is precisely the entity that the United States will seek to bolster.
This article was originally published by Jacobin on Sat 26 Jun 2021. Read the original here.
We Can’t Expect Joe Biden to Stop Supporting Apartheid
The Western media discourse gets it all wrong. Israel is not at risk of becoming an apartheid state — it already is one
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The very least we should expect of Biden, is to be better than Trump.
If he’s going to hand over $236 billion, in ‘aid’, the least he could do is attach conditions to that aid, that gives the Palestinians some protections.
Handing it over unconditionally, makes the US complicit in what will, inevitably, follow.
We already know it’s a ‘night follows day’ situation. Give Netanyahu – or people like him – the money and the arms, and the Palestinians will suffer.
This is a ‘given’.