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NefeshBarYochai wrote:
> On Tue, 7 May 2024 19:05:17 -0600, Sharx335 <sharx35@telus.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 2024-05-07 6:48 p.m., NefeshBarYochai wrote:
>>> President Biden has the stench of LBJ about him. For those of us old
>>> enough to remember, that stink is recalled with sadness and
>>> foreboding.
>>>
>>> After President Kennedy was assassinated, President Johnson proved
>>> himself adept at passing civil rights and other Great Society domestic
>>> legislation that JFK couldn’t. It would have been enough to make him
>>> one of our great presidents. But he had a fatal flaw when it came to
>>> Vietnam.
>>>
>>> Johnson saw that war in geopolitical and personal terms. A struggle by
>>> Vietnamese nationalists against French and then American oppressors
>>> and their South Vietnamese puppets was, to Johnson, an American fight
>>> against Communism, the Soviet Union, and China. Once he made that
>>> fight his own, he couldn’t “back down” despite the war’s course and
>>> the press and TV coverage which, over time, revealed to the American
>>> people his mistaken framing and the horrific punishment he, and they,
>>> were inflicting on their Vietnamese victims, who declined to submit
>>> despite millions dead, more millions maimed, and much of the country
>>> destroyed by bombs and napalm.
>>>
>>> Personal defeat was anathema to LBJ, so he persevered in a war that
>>> much of the country came to believe was immoral and wrong as the
>>> anti-war movement, led by students and faculty on campus, rapidly
>>> expanded and tore apart the country, creating divisions that remain
>>> today. When the movement took its protest to the Chicago streets
>>> outside the Democratic convention, the police ran amok in full view of
>>> the TV cameras, which played a role in Richard Nixon’s narrow defeat
>>> of Hubert Humphrey in the 1968 watershed election, which started the
>>> country down the more Republican, more conservative path that has
>>> largely characterized our politics to this day.
>>>
>>> President Biden suffers the same flaws. He has been fine all his
>>> political life with the Israeli oppression of Palestinians. Israel was
>>> running an apartheid state all that time, but there was never so much
>>> as a peep of criticism of it from him. AIPAC’s money was political
>>> mother’s milk for him. He has been the USA’s foremost Christian
>>> Zionist for a long time. As President, he preferred the Palestinians
>>> docile and quiescent, so that his geopolitical vision of an
>>> Israeli-Saudi Arabian pact, leading a Western-dominated Middle East
>>> against Iran, could be born. When Hamas struck on October 7, Biden
>>> couldn’t see it as part of a resistance struggle against 75 years of
>>> oppression. He saw it as a challenge to him and his hopes for
>>> stabilizing the region to permit him to focus on his hot war against
>>> Russia and his cold war against China. Palestinians be damned.
>>>
>>> So he unleashed Israel, knowing it was going to lay waste to Gaza to
>>> “restore deterrence.”  Despite his issues with Benjamin Netanyahu, he
>>> gave him his full support, never expecting that there might be an
>>> uproar in America over an Israeli genocide of Palestinians. His
>>> recent, tone-deaf visit to Michael Douglas and Katherine Zeta Jones to
>>> raise a few million from well-heeled Democratic contributors
>>> exemplifies the bubble in which Biden lives. He continues to support
>>> the genocide with tens of billions because he does not really believe
>>> that he can lose the country over it, and because he has no empathy
>>> for the Palestinian victims of Zionism.
>>>
>>> It is redolent of the same stench of arrogance that brought down LBJ.
>>> Today’s suppression of the rapidly expanding anti-genocide movement on
>>> campuses mirrors what we endured back then, and strongly suggests that
>>> we are looking at a repetition of 1968 at the upcoming Democratic
>>> Convention in Chicago. His prospect of a narrow victory over Trump in
>>> Michigan and the other few critical battleground states is already
>>> endangered, and the anticipated reaction to the violence the
>>> authorities will visit on American young people there will further
>>> alienate more voters from Biden. Yet his support of the genocide
>>> continues.
>>>
>>> He’s content to gamble that he will prevail in the end because his
>>> opponent is Trump. The protesters be damned. He may be right. But
>>> Biden is gambling with American democracy, all to permit Israeli Jews,
>>> at least two-thirds of whom support the genocide and oppose letting
>>> any humanitarian aid enter Gaza, to continue to kill Palestinian women
>>> and children by the thousands, and to use their own government’s
>>> failure to anticipate the Hamas attack to ratchet up their ethnic
>>> cleansing of the Palestinian people from the land between the River
>>> and the Sea.
>>>
>>> As a civil rights lawyer who has investigated and prosecuted cases in
>>> the International Criminal Tribunals, I can well understand the
>>> dilemma faced by those Democratic voters in Michigan, Georgia,
>>> Pennsylvania, and Arizona who hesitate to vote for a genocider, even
>>> one running against an insurrectionist.
>>>
>>> Jill Biden reportedly told her husband some time ago to “Stop it, Joe,
>>> stop it now.” Good advice that he continues to ignore — at his peril,
>>> and ours.
>>>
>>> https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/genocide-joe-is-beginning-to-stink-like-lyndon-b-johnson/
>>>
>>>
>> People like you who bury any commonsense deep into the ground, ostrich
>> like, are very similar to the Germans who allowed Hitler to get into and
>> stay in power. They are so stupid, so shallow, so ignorant of history
>> that they are condemned to forever repeat the mistakes of the past.
>> War is war and it can end the moment one side SURRENDERS and Hamas and a
>> majority of Palestinians have proven their evil barbarianism over and
>> over.  If it were in my power, NONE of you fools who support them would
>> EVER get employment in the West ever again. Noncitizens would be
>> deported from whatever country you are currently soiling with your
>> stupid naivete.
> 
> Study your Israeli history and you'll find who the terrorists are
> .
> 
its the people who gab about it all