Trump Continues Biden/Harris Policy on Palestine

There was no lesser evil on genocide

As expected, after meeting with internationally wanted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump has gone all in on the ethnic cleansing of Palestine. This action has woken blue MAGA up, who have suddenly remembered that Palestine exists. However, instead of attacking Trump, they are predictably punching left with attacks on third party and uncommitted voters.

Former Biden advisor and current MSNBC pundit Symone Sanders tweeted, “I think now it’s very appropriate to reiterate that elections have consequences.” Philip James DeFranco, American media personality and YouTuber tweeted, “Genuine question. Not aiming to dunk on etc. But for the Pro Gaza folk who yelled Genocide Joe and Killer Kamala and abstained, voted Jill Stein, or even voted for Trump what is your reaction to Trump saying US will own Gaza? Same thing in your eyes as Harris or regret now or?” And an anonymous aide to former VP Harris said of the uncommitted movement, “Deeply unserious people who want to shirk their responsibility. Clowns.”

In reality, the Democrats are the deeply unserious people who are shirking their responsibility for genocide. They have no answer to Trump except to double down on attacking the left. According to the New York Times, “In private meetings and at public events, elected Democrats appear leaderless, rudderless and divided. They disagree over how often and how stridently to oppose Mr. Trump. They have no shared understanding of why they lost the election, never mind how they can win in the future.” They recently elected new leadership to the DNC including the new chair Ken Martin. Ken Martin’s radical approach to leadership is to only take money from the ‘good’ billionaires, not the bad ones….the Democratic party prefers their billionaire donors to doing anything meaningful for the people.

The lack of ability of the Democrats to actually oppose Trump is because Trump’s policy on Gaza is the same as Biden’s. According to the AP, an anonymous Egyptian diplomat “said Egypt rejected similar proposals from the Biden administration and European countries early in the war, which was sparked by Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack into southern Israel. The earlier proposals were broached privately, while Trump announced his plan at a White House press conference alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.” The only difference between the two presidents was that Biden wasn’t open about his support of the ethnic cleansing of Gaza while Trump announced it to the world. This plan of Biden’s has been covered in detail by Mitchell Plitnick in Mondoweiss.

ICYMI, Biden supplemental asks for $$ to support Palestinians kicked out of Gaza, now & in the longer term. Hard to see how this is anything other than the Biden Admin giving a green light to an outcome that will amount to direct ethnic cleansing. - Lara Friedman, President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace

In fact, it was Biden/Harris arming and supporting genocide for 15 months that allows the policy of ethnic cleansing to continue. There would be no talk of reconstruction of Gaza if Biden/Harris had not provided the weapons to turn Gaza into rubble in the first place. The excuse that Gaza is too dangerous to live in now due to unexploded ordnance is because Biden/Harris provided that ordnance. The only concession Biden gave to the peace movement was a temporary pause of a 2,000 lbs bomb shipment. Even the so called ceasefire which Trump’s election helped push through has been violated countless times by Israel with no pushback from Democrats or Republicans.

The bankrupcy of the Democratic party has once again been revealed. They are suffering from record low approval ratings. According to a new Quinnipiac survey, 57% of voters disapprove of the Democratic party. Only 31% of voters have a favorable view of them. These are the worst numbers the Democrats have had since this question was first asked in 2008. A CNN poll reported, “A 58% majority of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents say that the Democratic Party needs major changes.” The genocidal Democratic party needs to be destroyed, not reformed.

There have been many responses to the Democrats punching left. The pro Palestinian movement has not been silent. As quoted by NBC news, Hudhayfah Ahmad, an Arizona-based pro-Palestinian activist and spokesperson for Abandon Harris, said, “Over the past 16 months, the Biden-Harris administration’s full, unobstructed support for Israel’s campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing has failed to remove the Palestinians of Gaza from their land. It is not Trump — just as it was not Biden or Harris — who decides what the Palestinians can or cannot do; that decision belongs solely to the people of Palestine.” And Maamoun Slayhi, part of Uncommitted Grassroots, said, “The reality is we don’t know what would have happened, but it would not have been better under the Harris administration. Harris was not a friend of the Palestinians. She was part of an administration that for 15 months did nothing to prevent further decimation.” It is important that we oppose genocide no matter which party is carrying it out. Third party voters and non voters were against the genocide, not for Trump.

While Kamala Harris herself has been silent on Trump’s Gaza policy, Jill Stein has been speaking out against it. On February 4th, she posted on X, “Donald Trump proposes to take over the Gaza strip, build a ‘Riviera of the Middle East’, forcibly relocate Palestinians. Won't rule out sending US troops. Democrats gave us genocide. Republicans give us ethnic cleansing/genocide. A pox on both their houses.” And yet Democrats are still claiming that Jill Stein only shows up during election years! A lie that Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez helped spread during the election. AOC would go on to speak at the Democratic National Convention, lying once again when she told the nation that Kamala Harris was working tirelessly on a ceasefire.

Electoral politics in the US is a dead end, but it is clear that Jill Stein and the Green Party are on the right side of history on this issue. The Democrats and Republicans are not. Democrats can’t even get the simplest thing right - it should be easy to oppose ethnic cleansing, but since it was their plan in the first place, they deflect blame to the left and ignore the bigger issues of genocide and ethnic cleansing taking place in Palestine.