Protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza interrupted President Biden during a speech at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, the scene of the 2015 shooting committed by Dylan Roof that killed nine people.
“If you really care about the lives lost here, you should honor the lives lost and call for a cease-fire in Gaza,” one protester shouted. Others then began chanting, “ceasefire now.”
As the protesters were escorted out, Biden’s supporters chanted, “four more years,” and the president said he understood the “passion” of the people who interrupted his speech.
Biden then claimed that he’s been “quietly working with the Israeli government to get them to reduce and significantly get out of Gaza.” But he continues to provide unconditional military support for the Israeli slaughter, which has killed over 22,000 Palestinians so far, and US officials have repeatedly affirmed there are no serious discussions about limiting or leveraging aid.
There has been increasing dissent within the Biden administration and the Democratic Party against President Biden’s full-throated support for the mass killing of Palestinians. The incident at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church was at least the third time in recent weeks that pro-Gaza ceasefire protesters interrupted one of his speeches, demonstrating the conflict will be a major issue he has to face while running for re-election.
Seventeen Biden campaign staffers recently signed a letter to President Biden protesting his support for Israel’s campaign. The letter said: “Biden for President staff have seen volunteers quit in droves, and people who have voted blue for decades feel uncertain about doing so for the first time ever, because of this conflict.”
Those protestors gave greater witness to Jesus than the so-called clergy sitting in support of Biden. Those “Christianistas” have all been exposed as war pharisees and assiduous peddlers of cheap grace.
Right on !
Blessed are the peacemakers
Clyburn not only shivved Bernie, but his own Black constituency:
How Rep. James Clyburn Protected His District at a Cost to Black Democrats
Facing the possibility of an unsafe district, South Carolina’s most powerful Democrat sent his aide to consult with the GOP on a redistricting plan that diluted Black voting strength and harmed his party’s chances of gaining seats in Congress…The state legislature had begun the crucial task of redrawing voting district lines after the 2020 census. Even small changes in the lines can mean the difference between who wins office, who loses and which party holds power. As the process commenced, Clyburn had a problem: His once majority Black district had suffered a daunting exodus of residents since the last count. He wanted his seat to be made as safe as possible. Republicans understood the powerful Black Democrat could not be ignored, even though he came from the opposing party and had no official role in the state-level process. Fortunately for them, Clyburn, who is 82 and was recently reelected to his 16th term, had long ago made peace with the art of bartering.
https://www.propublica.org/article/how-rep-james-clyburn-protected-his-district-at-a-cost-to-black-democrats
I am a senior citizen and I will not vote for any war criminal and Biden is a war criminal.
… along with all but a handfull of the Congress and state parties to which they belong, effectivly mooting thereby the entire electoral process along with its ideology of fake democracy.
You won’t be able to vote.
As much as I despise trump, I don’t believe he’s a war criminal…he’s hust a criminal.
I wish it was so simple, but it’s not. Whether he decided or establishment did, the killing went on unabated. Granted he started no new wars like Biden:
Donald Trump’s War Crimes
https://truthout.org/articles/donald-trump-s-war-crimes/
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-is-trying-to-hide-us-and-israeli-war-crimes-by-attacking-the-icc/
https://theintercept.com/2020/10/29/trump-yemen-war-civilian-deaths/
Let’s review the record. Despite inveighing against “endless wars,” Trump massively escalated the country’s existing wars in multiple theaters, leading to skyrocketing casualties. In Afghanistan, he substantially upped the amount of airstrikes, leading to a 330 percent increase in civilian deaths. In Yemen, he escalated both U.S. counterterrorism activities and support for the devastating Saudi-led war against the Houthis. According to the United Kingdom’s Bureau of Investigative Journalism, there were 2,243 drone strikes in just the first two years of Trump’s presidency, compared with 1,878 in the entire eight years of the Obama administration.
In 2018, Trump bowed to Washington’s neoconservative hawks and withdrew from a working nonproliferation agreement with Iran, resulting in Iran scaling up both its provocative activities in the region and its nuclear program. According to current U.S. assessments, Iran could now make enough fissile for one nuclear bomb in under two weeks, should it decide to do so. Under the agreement Trump abandoned, it would’ve taken Iran at least a year.
The list goes on: Trump put the U.S. on a path to “great-power competition” with China, incited a failed coup in Venezuela, …Indeed, Trump was seen as such a dangerous interventionist that Congress passed the first war powers resolution in history to try to end his support for the Yemen war. Less than a year later, Congress passed a second resolution to brush him back from a potential war with Iran after he OK’d the assassination of Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Commander Qassem Soleimani. Both measures passed with Republican support, making opposition to Trump’s militarism one of the very few areas of bipartisan agreement during his administration….
Donald Trump was right about Americans’ disenchantment with the existing foreign-policy establishment. The United States desperately needs a renewed global approach that is both more responsive to the American people’s needs and does not simply export violence and poverty onto the rest of the world.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/04/18/donald-trump-presidency-anti-imperialist-militarism-war/
Well, he approved the SEAL mission that resulted in the murder of an 8-year-old American girl.
Sounds war-criminalish to me.
True. By comparison though, he’s just a beginner in the war crimes history books.
Planning to vote for Trump. Trump is very pro Israel.
Why bother to vote, the elite picks people acceptable to them and not people who might serve the voters. Democracy has become a hoax, a make believe.
Joe Biden hasn’t lifted a finger for Gaza.
Well, maybe, a middle finger.
Good one.
“Four more years!” Frightening. You can’t fix stupid.
Frightening.
Sec’y of State Blinkered denies that a genocide is taking place, with State issuing a statement that harshly attacks the genocide charges brought against Israel by South Africa at the World Court.
Biden belongs to a jail cell in a mental hospital…!
He and Trump can share a cell!
In other news, Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin has prostate cancer.
I would like to extend my sympathies to the cancer.
That is not very nice.
Reminds me of Animal Farm, where the sheep would start bleating “Four legs good!” to drown out dissenting views. Maybe Biden’s new name will be President Napoleon.
I am against the genocide of Jews.
Ceasefires are not genocidal.
Biden says he is working quietly with the Israelis to reduce the level of slaughter in Gaza.
Apparently, Biden is working so quietly that even the Israelis can’t hear him.