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On Wed, 08 May 24 00:48:40 UTC, NefeshBarYochai <void@invalid.noy>
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/
>

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