Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in an interview published by The New York Times on Saturday that he’s not worried that the world might view him as a genocide supporter for his role in supporting Israel’s actions in Gaza.
Blinken was asked, “Do you, Secretary Blinken, worry that perhaps you have been presiding over what the world will see as a genocide?”
He replied, “No. It’s not, first of all. Second, as to how the world sees it, I can’t fully answer to that. But everyone has to look at the facts and draw their own conclusions from those facts.”
The interview comes after several human rights organizations, including Amnesty International, have concluded Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, a conclusion rejected by Blinken’s state department.
Blinken claimed to be concerned about the massive civilian casualties in Gaza but also defended US support for the slaughter, which he called Israel’s “just defense” from the October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel. “We have been, and we remain fundamentally committed to Israel’s defense,” he said.
The secretary of state also defended the Biden administration’s actions related to the proxy war in Ukraine, which he framed as a success even though there’s no path to a Ukrainian military victory and hundreds of thousands have died in the conflict.
When asked if it was time to end the war, Blinken said the decision was up to Ukraine. “These are decisions for Ukrainians to make. They have to decide where their future is and how they want to get there,” he said.
However, in the early days of the war, the US and its allies discouraged Ukraine from signing a peace deal with Russia, and now Kyiv stands to lose much more territory than if it reached an agreement in 2022.
Sure, why would he worry? If he did I'd doubt he could sleep at night, or even live with himself. Worry? That's for non-psychopaths.
It sounds like Blinken has already given a beachfront property on Gaza Coast to build his future vacation home…!
My conclusion – it's a Blinken genocide.
Bodily stress from containing a psychopathic liar and genocidal war monger is showing on Blinken's face. The man is shriveling like a dried potato. His denial of barbaric atrocities is just another lie, read his face like a book.
On another note, once Blinken is sent home after being fired he's got to leave the house sometime. It would be a shame if he were to have an accident.
That's part of the problem: there's no real downside to 'them' committing the most egregious of crimes- you know Blinken and his ilk are never going face justice for anything they've done. He doesn't care what the public thinks of him as long as he gets his money.
And the public? We The People are too afraid to actually hold our 'leaders' accountable for their actions- we're too afraid to put heads in guillotines, real or figuratively.
But Blinken and Co. would gladly put YOUR head in a guillotine- an actual one- if it meant a little more money or power or whatever it is that drives them. They absolutely would, without a second thought.
They don’t care overmuch about protecting their own.
The U.S. and its master Israel have caused more damage in the world in the last 50 years then probably all other nations combined.
MLK defined the US as "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today" and that was in '67 when it was just getting going.
His death confirmed it too.
That is just nonsense.
I'm sure he's on the short list for a new condo on the beach in Gaza.
That would be hilarious. However, Israel is dangerous. He’ll probably take Switzerland and Florida or Martha’s Vineyard.
And why should he be worried? He will go from here to sinecures at a major university and some consulting and Board of Directors and such. He will go to the best plays and shows and be invited to the best parties and hobnob with movie stars and musicians, right?
It's not like we hold supporters of genocide, ethnic cleansing, aggressive war, terror against civilians, starvation and etc. accountable and shun them for the rest of their lives as they deserve (and more, but we can't get that), do we?
ow. reminded of creepy 'enhanced interrogation-technique'-cheerleader condoleezza rice's career trajectory…
We can be sure the gates of Columbia University are open, he can join the vultures Hillary, and Victoria, or Condoleezza at Stanford. Secretary of state and deputy of state, all three showed ruthless ambitious women are as ruthless as any man.
Ensoulment happens when a person makes money. Each individual dollar grants a piece of soul. That is the American religion.
You speak like a believer, because the existence of a human soul is based purely on faith. Man has no soul, no spirit, but a brain with which he thinks, feels, perceives, acts etc. in a learned language. During sleep, as a result of the uncontrolled, will-less brain, man repeats his sensory experiences in dreams as the product of a random combination of experienced events, whether actually experienced or consumed as a movie, book, etc.
https://www.visiblebody.com/blog/human-anatomy-atlas-virtual-3d-brain-dissection
https://www.visiblebody.com/learn/nervous/system-overview
https://www.brainfacts.org/thinking-sensing-and-behaving/learning-and-memory/2024/harnessing-the-brain-the-neuroscience-behind-how-we-learn-102824
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/anatomy-of-the-brain
https://brain.mpg.de/schuman
https://www.mpg.de/brain
https://www.kenhub.com/en/library/anatomy/neuroanatomy
What more do they need to know that it is genocide? De facto the whole world knows Americans and Israelis are killing a nation of unarmed civilians including women and children, making them war criminals.
Even Blinken is not that stupid not to know.
He must know he is as much a war-criminal as anyone who faced trial in Nuernberg in 1945.
editorially speaking, there's an article to be written here:
generations of germans – too young to have been directly responsible for their country's crime – grew up with guilt and shame as they faced what their country – in practice, the living elders around them – had either done, or supported, or failed to resist – degrees of complicity from literal architects of the final solution, who conceived and designed crematoriums, to soldiers to petty 'food ration' paper pushers.
the moral horror of national complicity was even worse for children of Nazis
upshot: writer needed: the german child of a nazi functionary or official – who honestly faced her parent's acts and guilt – is the right writer for a piece – possibly an open letter to Bl, or his children – on the ordeal of living with the knowledge of a family member's unspeakable crimes against humanity…and on those parents and children who never faced up to their defiling human criminality.
I wonder though, how much normal americans (and the psychopaths who rule) process the fact of their (commission or omission) evil?
"What a thing it is to have a country that can’t be wrong, but if it is, is right, anyway!"
William Dean Howells
Easy to sleep at night if you cannot process the evil you do …
This story is about Gaza, not your distorted 75 year old distraction.
Books have been written about the children of Nazi leaders.
Amazon has many, most children were born at the beginning of the war. They were young children but had to deal with their parents past when they grew up and were still young people.
goering would bounce his favorite, beloved child on his knee when he got home – just as, no doubt, blinken dotes on his genuinely beloved, exquisitely cared-for toddlers – when he's not busy helping Israel starve, freeze, dehydrate, deprive of medical care, and blow the arms and legs and heads off of thousands of impoverished, helpless children and infants…the thousands of survivors growing up not only without limbs, but without mothers or fathers. But…AWWW, BLINKY! YER SUCH A GOOD DAD!
I don’t know if it is ongoing, but activists were planted in front of his gated home day after day. And upon his departure, they would splatter a red blood like liquid on his vehicle and motorcade and in the street.
At the time I thought it might’ve been paint.
He knows who he is and how despised he is.
He doesn’t care. He is a well practiced lying psychopath.
I realize a comment by a zombie.
https://america.cgtn.com/2023/08/04/zombieland-americas-latest-drug-tragedy
https://www.psychiatrist.com/news/skin-rotting-zombie-drug-tied-to-increase-in-us-drug-overdoses/
POST CORRECTION: GOEBBELS, NOT GOERING
"goering would bounce his favorite, beloved child on his knee when he got home"
My bad, antiwar folks – it was Nazi propaganda minister Goebbels whose favorite daughter would sit in his lap, not Goering – before Germany lost and the wife murdered the children in hitler's bunker, before she and g. killed themselves.
(not that that changes the point of my post re the schizoid life of officials complicit in crimes against humanity – like Blinken – who – when not aiding and abbetting the mass murder of children abroad – dote on their own kids. Again – see movie "The Zone of Interest" – set in Nazi Germany, but with deliberate analogies to apartheid Israel)
Blinken: “I come before you as a Jew.”
Mr. Blinken, please familiarize yourself with the First Amendment.
What does the First Amendment have to do with it? Blinken isn’t Congress and is making no law of any kind.
Separation of Church and State
That’s a nice phrase. Its meaning is debatable, but this is the first time I’ve ever heard it asserted that some guy saying “as a Jew” violates it.
It’s well that he’s Jewish. It creates the impression of bias.
What does that have to do with the First Amendment?
I might have missed something. I guess nothing. In Florida I guess one mayn’t criticise Jews and/or Israel in some regards? I don’t think that’s pertinent here though.
I doubt that it’s pertinent — Florida law requires all government contractors to sign a loyalty oath to a foreign power (Israel), but not to Jews as such.
Let's not be naive here. The primary role he plays are energy and weapon sales. To admit that they are being used for genocide would make those sales illegal. Making those sales illegal would hurt sales, and profit from those sales. Is it making sense for you yet?
Let's not be naive here. The primary role he plays are energy and weapon sales. To admit that they are being used for genocide would make those sales illegal. Making those sales illegal would hurt sales, and profit from those sales. Is it making sense for you yet?
"Blinken Says He’s Not Worried…World May Think He’s Backed a Genocide"
I call bullshit. Yea, he's worried – more than this guilty little man has the guts to admit.
See…of course he'd say that. Why? For one, this isn't just about judgments of him, but about his being a loyal ass-suck to US foreign policy, and to a Democratic administration. Only consider:
A handful of State Department and other folk broke rank with the administration – whatever career hardship quitting entailed, they were sickened by the US's militarily and ideologically enabling role in a genocide…and chose to walk. Others protested, albeit anonymously.
For those who walked, this will be a defining act in their lives – and not only for themselves, but in all their relationships – from intimates to strangers.
Blinken chose. Blinken chose not to walk. Blinken chose to be a chief apologist spokesperson enabling a genocide on the ideological front.
And for those – like Anthony 'I-am-NOT-a-genocidaire!' – Blinken –who chose not to walk? Watch for more breast-beating theatrics like this: "After Oct. 7, I threatened to nix Biden visit if Israel didn’t let aid into Gaza" (Israeli Times, 1/4/25)
See, this lil' moral piece'a shite's got a rep' to consider – kiddies who one day won't be kiddies, black tie's to be respectfully greeted at. So now ask yourself. Seriously: Does this well-coiffed maggot truly not care if he's seen as one more unindicted Nazi official who 'only followed orders'? Fat. Chance.
Great comment …
"For those who walked, this will be a defining act in their lives – and not only for themselves, but in all their relationships – from intimates to strangers."
I'm sure you've read LeGuin's "the ones who walk away from Omelas" … your comment reminded me of that great short story.
thx – not least for making the 'jump' in a long post! haven't read much leguin – one novel as a teenager, and, believe, 2 short stories in a 'best american short stories of 19-something,' several decades ago…one of which i actually remember (architect builds model of his own house, placed in attic, which he visits and reflects on after his children have grown up…), but will look up her short stories – in a funny situation where i'm long-term-temporarily in wrong country to complete one writing project, and have a little free time for other mental activities…
"The lath of Heaven" is wild.
Based on the banal, accusatory, 'first world' language of the two forists abramawicz, Caliman, they show no knowledge of public international law or jus ad bellum, jus in bello, or fascism. The Islamic Hamas of Gaza does not choose to end a terrible, hybrid war that it initiated. So who is really acting in the spirit of fascism? Hamas, of course. I am not trivializing war crimes.
Nothing Hamas did, does or is going to do justifies what Israel did, does and will continue to do.
Yea right. Hamas attacked Israel. Israel hit back. History is full of wars that started that way and the losing side paid a greater price. You have this nutting idea that Israel is supposed play nice and allow people from Gaza to kill their Israelis at will. Well Israel does not see that way.
Israel obviously stood down on 10/7. They waited 8 hours to respond, with attack copters 5 minutes from the situation. Plus, Israel was warned multiple times, by Egypt for example. Israel also pulled out the border militia 1 month earlier. They had sensors and cameras all across that border.
And you have this "nutting" idea that if you repeat that Hamas invaded enough times, then that means any rules of engagement are permissible and Israel can kill anything that moves. You can pretend to be stupid, but you know that Israel has gone so far beyond over the top with their indiscriminate killing that it's not even debatable. The numbers don't lie.
Numbers don't lie, but Zionists do, all the time.
Blood soaked Zionist shill.
Blood soaked Zionist monster!
Rot in Hell killer.
Another fascist comment by a zombie.
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/zombie_n?tl=true
Nothing fascist about calling the Israeli fascists “monsters”
Good For You
Grunts the Zio-mbie.
There is no real war with two armies facing each other. It is genocide and Hamas are resistance, fighting for their and their sibling's human rights and life. The Palestinian people did NOT INVADE ISRAEL.
No one forced the USA/ISRAEL to massacre a population of mostly women and children, no one forced them to brutalize and torture and proceed with killing them after they suffered enough.
Hamas did not choose to start the "hybrid war."
What choice do the Palestinians have other than a miserable humiliating existence or death? They have not even that choice, genocide is all there is, going back to 1948, when the official slow motion genocide started with their Nakba, their nearly century old holocaust.
"There is no real war with two armies facing each other" Well relatives of death soldiers on both sides will disagree with you.
"slow motion genocide" That interesting term. It is very slow. Like so slow it is negative. 700,000 Palestinians lost their land in the 1948 war which was started by Arabs. The 2024 estimate of the Palestinians population is 5.5 million.
"What choice do the Palestinians have " They can work on building better life for themself. A life where they are not dependent on UN and life where they don't get 1000s of their own people killed just to kill of few Israelis. The Palestinians will have a better future when they love their children more than love killings Israelis.
Your knowledge, understanding is not based on facts, not even confirmed historical data, that is why your posts make no sense at all. You can't change the past to fit your narrative.
You're a filthy human being who defends mass murder, Timmy.
Gotta love that last quote from Golda Meir. The same PM that was responsible for poisoning Palestinian wells. It’s simply stunning how long you managed to fool the world.
Lysistrata, wars_r_u.s., they speak like the Spanish fascists in the Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 or the German civilian population under German fascism between 1933 and 1945.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/spanish-civil-war
https://alba-valb.org/lesson/spanish-civil-war-summary/
https://www.fondapol.org/en/study/pogroms-in-palestine-before-the-creation-of-the-state-of-israel-1830-1948/
https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2025/01/06/gazan-reality-in-judea-and-samaria-three-murdered-in-roadside-ambush/
That is true for the French revolution too.
That is true in any civil war, they fight on home turf with exception of the outsiders. It is also true that the ruling class, no matter what you call them, have the bigger guns to fight the resistance, terrorists, fascists or Nazis, communists, freedom fighters, or religious colored ideology they may have. The bigger guns will win unless the rebels get outsider help.
I haven't said anything in support of Hamas. Nothing any group, whether hard core terrorists or actual resistance fighters, does, it still doesn't justify Israel's total disregard for innocent human life as a response.
Speaking like fascists is what Israel supporters do all the time.
They defend genocide & mass murder.
"So who is really acting in the spirit of fascism?"
So what kinda' cultural illiterate doesn't get that the unindicted "order-following" "Nazi" is not just about Germany's postwar denazification, but a trope of high official war criminals who never see justice?
Gonna help out here – the same kinda' cultural illiterate who engages in ham-fisted rhetorical dumbassery like 'so who…hamas, of course.'
'hamas! of course!!! I REST MY ELOQUENT CASE!!!!' seriously too funny – like a freakin' kiddie.
A perfect vacuum between his ears. He should volunteer his services to a study on molecular concentrations in interstellar space.
In a just world uncontrolled by America Anthony Blinken would be tried as a war criminal and hung.
If Nazi Germany had won World War 2 there would have been no reconning for evil deeds of that group.
Anthoney Blinken is as evil and complicit as many Nazi Germans were who were hung after the Nurenberg War Crimes trials.