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With sizable protests making it clear that the issue is of great importance and may even prove decisive in the election, I was wondering what was going to be said about Palestine in Biden’s and Harris’ speeches. And some lip service was paid to the issue, Biden saying “we’re working around the clock — my secretary of state — to prevent a wider war and reunite hostages with their families and surge humanitarian health and food assistance into Gaza now, to end the civilian suffering of the Palestinian people and finally, finally, finally deliver a ceasefire and end this war” and then actually adding “those protesters out in the street, they have a point“, while Harris said “what has happened in Gaza over the past ten months is devastating. So many innocent lives lost. Desperate, hungry people fleeing for safety, over and over again. The scale of suffering is heartbreaking. President Biden and I are working to end this war, such that Israel is secure, the hostages are released, the suffering in Gaza ends, and the Palestinian people can realize their right to dignity, security, freedom, and self-determination“.
However, the double standard continued to be strikingly obvious even when it came to who was allowed to speak, the parents of one of the hostages being among the speakers, but all requests for a Palestinian American to be allowed to do the same being firmly denied. And even the briefest look at the actual actions makes it perfectly clear that those few sentences were little more than an attempt to fool people into thinking that they may actually care in any way, the level of support offered to Israel remaining the same in practice and empowering them to continue to act with impunity.
Seriously, if you want to foster hate, radicalize a nation, a people, turn them all into fighters, one way or another, and also turn an entire part of the world against you and offer your enemies arguments on a silver platter in any discussions about justification, morality or “being on the right side of history”, then do what Israel’s been doing and react to it the way “the West” has been reacting to it, pushing tirelessly for a complete defeat not of Hamas, without whose existence it’d be even harder to even try to find justifications, but of Palestinians as a whole and of the very idea of a Palestinian state. But, to once again quote Babylon 5: “No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by the force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power governments, and tyrants, and armies cannot stand.” So, unless all of that changes completely, with Israel being put back in its place and the security of the entire area likely being maintained by an international peacekeeping force until a fair and proper two-state solution will be implemented and proven to work in the long term, that endless powder keg will just keep exploding, causing untold suffering locally and casting negative effects globally.