{"id":32189,"date":"2024-03-08T12:36:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T20:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=32189"},"modified":"2024-03-08T12:36:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T20:36:09","slug":"why-biden-is-hiding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/03\/08\/why-biden-is-hiding\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Biden is hiding."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Over 200,000 people cast \u201cuncommitted<\/a>\u201d or similar votes in the Democratic primaries on Super Tuesday, a strong rebuke of President Biden over his ongoing complicity in Israel\u2019s genocide of Palestinians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Minnesota, uncommitted ballots accounted<\/a> for nearly 20 percent of the vote, meaning the uncommitted movement will get to send 11 delegates to the Democratic National Convention, in addition to the two uncommitted delegates being sent by Michigan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In North Carolina, 12 percent of Democrats \u2014 nearly 90,000 people \u2014 cast a \u201cno preference\u201d vote. In Massachusetts and Colorado, uncommitted or similar options received 9 and 8 percent of the vote, respectively. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over 150 days into the Israeli government\u2019s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, pressure on the Biden administration has reached a boiling point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden\u2019s team has taken to hosting smaller events and keeping locations a secret until the President arrives, lest he be heckled by pro-Palestinian protesters \u2014 and they\u2019re reportedly<\/a> considering hiring a private company to screen attendees ahead of a major fundraiser this month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The facade of unquestioning U.S. support for the Israeli government is crumbling, thanks in large part to the immense pressure being exerted by the Palestine solidarity movement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden knows U.S. complicity in the Gaza genocide could cost him the 2024 election, and he\u2019s willing to do just about anything to save face \u2014 except cut off the flow of U.S. dollars to Israel\u2019s genocidal military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cracks are showing<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A day after over 100 starving Palestinians were massacred by the Israeli military while waiting for humanitarian aid, Biden announced that the U.S. would conduct a series of aid airdrops \u2014  a last-ditch effort to save face and stave off the impending famine. Experts say these airdrops are both expensive and inefficient.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The grim irony of these aid drops isn\u2019t lost on us. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians aren\u2019t just starving, they\u2019re being starved<\/em> by the Israeli government, an ostensible U.S. ally that continues to receive billions in U.S. military funding. The Israeli military, in turn, uses these American weapons to fire on UNRWA trucks and gun down Palestinians queuing for aid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Sunday, Vice President Kamala Harris offered the strongest rebuke of the Israeli government\u2019s genocide in Gaza from a top U.S. official to date. During a speech commemorating the 59th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, Harris called<\/a> for a six-week ceasefire and described conditions on the ground in Gaza as a \u201chumanitarian catastrophe,\u201d saying the Israeli government \u201cmust do more to significantly increase the flow of aid\u201d into Gaza, \u201cno excuses.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A day later, Israeli War Cabinet minister Benny Gantz was in the United States for meetings with Harris and other top Biden administration officials, much to the chagrin of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had not \u201cauthorized<\/a>\u201d the trip and even ordered the Israeli embassy in Washington to boycott<\/a> Gantz\u2019s meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time is running out for a ceasefire<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

That Netanyahu\u2019s foremost political rival is convening with top U.S. officials at such a critical moment attests to growing U.S. frustration with the Netanyahu government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. officials are pushing hard for a ceasefire before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins next week. Right now, a U.S.-backed, six-week deal is on the table. But as of last Friday, reports indicated that the Israeli government would not move forward with ceasefire negotiations until Hamas provided it with a list of the Israeli hostages who are still alive \u2014 something Hamas has said is impossible without a cessation in hostilities. Last week, Hamas said<\/a> seven more hostages were killed in the Israeli military\u2019s ongoing assault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The stories coming out of Gaza are harrowing. Children are now being starved at a faster rate than at any other point in history, and in the besieged enclave\u2019s isolated north, aid has all but come to a halt. As of January, one in six children under the age of two in north Gaza was acutely malnourished. And in recent days, 15 children have died of starvation and dehydration at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the weekend, the Israeli military again fired on a crowd of Palestinians trying to collect humanitarian aid, killing and injuring dozens of people. And it continues to bomb Rafah, where over one million people have taken refuge. They will have nowhere to go should a ground invasion commence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What we\u2019re watching<\/strong>.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As we continue to fight for a permanent ceasefire, we\u2019re also expanding our tactics and targets, exposing the institutions and individuals fueling this genocide and demanding accountability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s why we took to the streets in NYC to demand that our elected officials stop taking money from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a right-wing, anti-Palestinian lobby group that has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to buy our politicians\u2019 silence on Palestine \u2014 including bullying them into opposing a ceasefire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(jewishvoiceforpeace.org) Over 200,000 people cast \u201cuncommitted\u201d or similar votes in the Democratic primaries on Super Tuesday, a strong rebuke of President Biden over his ongoing complicity in Israel\u2019s genocide of Palestinians.  In Minnesota, uncommitted ballots accounted for nearly 20 percent of the vote, meaning the uncommitted movement will get to send 11 delegates… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[388],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32189"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32190,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32189\/revisions\/32190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}