At a time when the Biden administration wants to sound music according to which deep disagreements are weighing down relations between the United States and Israel, the Wall Street Journal has made revelations that show that in the actions, it is all the opposite that occurs. The official narrative intended for media consumption in no way corresponds to the reality of the actions. Decryption.
According to Al-Quds newspaper, the Wall Street Journal revealed that US President Joe Biden’s administration rejected proposals to activate a package of light-touch measures against Israel aimed at sending it a message of discontent.
These measures would have included that products made in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank exported to the United States can no longer be labeled as “made in Israel” and another in which the United States recognizes that settlements in the West Bank violate international law. If they had been taken, these measures would not have been revolutionary but would simply mark a return to the pre-Trump situation because before the latter came to power, products manufactured in the West Bank settlements were not labeled “ made in Israel” but in the colonies. As for the second measure, it would have just reconsidered the settlements as illegal because it was the Trump administration’s Secretary of State, the ultra-Zionist evangelical Mike Pompeo who canceled the policy known as the “Hansel Document » which the American administration had followed for 40 years according to which Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories violate international law.
US officials also told the WSJ that they were also considering imposing sanctions on two influential members of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.
US officials said the package would have sent a strong message of discontent but ultimately the Biden administration was unwilling and only imposed sanctions on four largely unknown Israeli settlers. once again tempering the Biden administration’s response regarding the bloody Israeli war waged in Gaza for more than four months.
The president with a failing memory regains all his lucidity when it comes to unconditionally supporting Israel and becomes as cunning as a fox by serving public opinion, especially the left wing of the Democratic party and international opinion, exasperated by Israel’s violence and endless crimes, a speech suggesting that he is at odds with Israeli officials and that Israeli-American relations are close to breaking down, while in fact, he refuses the slightest sanction so timid and as symbolic as it is against Israel.
Even more American weapons to Israel
Worse, another article published by the Wall Street Journal, Friday February 16, 2024, citing current and former US officials, claims that the Biden administration is preparing to send bombs and other weapons to Israel that will strengthen its military arsenal, even as the United States seeks to reach a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip. They want a ceasefire but continue to feed the insatiable Israeli ogre with weapons, look for the logic!
The American newspaper reported that the proposed weapons shipment includes MK-82 bombs and KMU-572 joint direct attack munitions that add precise guidance to the bombs and FMU-139 bomb detonators, adding that the value of the shipment is estimated at “tens of millions of dollars”.
The report citing a U.S. official said the U.S. administration is still studying this proposed shipment and the official said details of the proposal could change before the administration briefs congressional leaders who must approve the shipment.
The administration has been criticized for continuing to supply weapons to Israel, especially amid growing accusations that American-made weapons are being used in strikes that have killed or injured Palestinian civilians
The height of criminal cynicism
It should be recalled that during February when Israeli-American relations are said to be going through a rough patch, the United States received a high-ranking delegation from the Israeli Ministry of Defense and authorized the sale of the latest generation fighter planes including F-35s, an episode to which we returned at length in the article entitled “The West is starving the Palestinians and feeding Israel with weapons”. And as if all this were not enough, last weekend, Super Bowl weekend, Sunday, February 11, the final of the American football championship took place where all of America is mobilized for this great annual meeting, the Senate convenes a plenary session Sunday evening to vote on the aid plan for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan concocted by the Biden administration.
Israel pockets 14 billion dollars! Biden is delighted and urges the House of Representatives (lower house of the US Congress) to do the same and vote on the plan as quickly as possible.
Ultimately, statements like “There are many victims in Gaza” made by Joe Biden last week, or the very petty one made by his Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Davos last month “Every day my heart bleeds for the victims of Gaza” are intended for media consumption because they are “moved” by the fate of the Palestinian civilian victims and then refuse the slightest timid sanction against Israel, pay it billions of dollars and send it more than weapons to further shell Gaza and massacre more Palestinians is the height of cynicism and illustrates the gap between the media discourse of Doctor Joe and the actions of Mister Biden.
