On Tuesday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered a speech at the Atlantic Council where he said Hamas has likely recruited as many fighters as it has lost in Gaza.
Before making the comments about Hamas, Blinken was disrupted by a protester who called him the “Secretary of Genocide” for his role in supporting and enabling Israel’s genocidal war.
“You will forever be known as Bloody Blinken, Secretary of Genocide, you have the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent people on your hands,” the protester yelled.
Blinken went on to criticize Israel’s strategy in Gaza despite backing it for nearly a year and a half. “We’ve long made the point to the Israeli government that Hamas cannot be defeated by a military campaign alone, that without a clear alternative, a post-conflict plan and a credible political horizon for the Palestinians, Hamas, or something just as abhorrent and dangerous, will grow back,” Blinken said.
He noted that Israel was still facing resistance in northern Gaza. “That’s exactly what’s happened in northern Gaza since October 7. Each time Israel completes its military operations and pulls back Hamas, militants regroup and reemerge because there’s nothing else to fill the void,” he said.
Blinken said the US assesses “that Hamas has recruited almost as many new militants as it has lost. That is a recipe for an enduring insurgency and perpetual war.”
Back in November 2023, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown, the highest ranking US military officer, warned that Israel’s killing of so many civilians would create more Hamas members. Despite Brown recognizing this reality, the US continued to provide huge amounts of military aid to Israel to support the slaughter.
According to The Times of Israel, Israel assesses that it has killed 18,000 Hamas fighters, although Israeli media has revealed the IDF frequently kills unarmed civilians and counts them as “terrorists.”
Blinken’s address at the Atlantic Council came amid reports that a hostage and ceasefire deal is close. Since May 2024, Hamas has said it was ready to accept a ceasefire deal proposed by President Biden, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly sabotaged negotiations, a fact widely acknowledged by Israeli officials. But Blinken is still pushing the narrative that the lack of a ceasefire was Hamas’s fault.
“For the past several months, Hamas has played the spoiler, but over the past several weeks, our intensive efforts have brought us to the brink of a final agreement,” Blinken said.
According to Israeli media, the difference made in recent days was the pressure President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming Middle East envoy put on Netanyahu, not anything Blinken or anyone else in the Biden administration did.
He likely did not recognize the words being directed at him. That is what integrity sounds like, and he simply cannot comprehend the concept.
He understands perfectly well. He's too demonic to care.
His body carries a burden too ugly for a healthy life.
Veterans interrupt confirmation hearing
https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1879247358074188030
Video:
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Powerful interventions by US vets @JWGuilbeau and @gregstoker as Christian Zionist fanatic Pete Hegseth droned on about "meritocracy lethality war fighting accountability"
CODEPINK @codepink
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BREAKING: Veterans disrupt the hearing to confirm Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense.
"You are a misogynist! Not only that, you are a Christian Zionist!"
"We need money here, not to bomb babies in Gaza!"
"No money for disasters. Only $8B for Israel to slaughter children"
"Christian Zionist fanatic Pete Hegseth droned on about 'meritocracy lethality'"
There it is again – like the outgoing Genocidaire-in-Chief's stomach turning "most competent" foreign policy team remarks:
1/ a rhetorical and (notwithstanding Hegseth) mainly liberal bid for legitimacy – horrific crimes joined to a sociopathic standard of 'competence' – 'a system that chooses those w/ability to do a job best.'
2/ Echoes of The Best and the Brightest – a "foreign policy crafted by academics and intellectuals…in President…Kennedy's administration, and the consequences of those policies in Vietnam. The title referred to Kennedy's 'whiz kids'" (Wiki)
3/ As posted elsewhere: "A Biologist Reconstructs the Grotesque Efficiency of the Nazi Killing Machine" (Scientific American, 2019)
And they would recruit even more if the had the organizational capacity: everybody wants in the Resistance.
Blinken is great for recruitment. He has no humanity.
But he is increasingly striking his Elie Wiesel, beaten dog, pose, carrying the consciousness of the guilt of humanity (not himself individually) on his shoulders.
Agreed. I'm glad you pointed it out. He frequently deploys "tsk" in his speeches as if to amplify his own "piety." Satan must be proud.
Yes, Satan, the eternal victim.
He has always looked pathetic. Probably like the sociopath who practices expressions of emotions in a mirror to appear like the normies.
I agree. But if people say he is great for that, why do people say he is so incompetent then?
He’s not incompetent. He is a vile stain on humanity.
The Bottom Line… He is a Zionist…!
It’s deeper and more sinister than that.
What could be deeper than that evilness…?!
Where do I sign up? 🇺🇸❤️🇵🇸
Hamas is a terror group
One man’s terror group is another’s Freedom Fighter!…
No
All terror
If that is the case, Israel would have to have a new term invented to describe their behavior because "terrorist" wouldn't be harsh enough.
Thank you for the gesture Glitch. Humanity loves you!
As always, at your sevice!
He noted that Israel was still facing resistance in northern Gaza. “That’s exactly what’s happened in northern Gaza since October 7. Each time Israel completes its military operations and pulls back Hamas, militants regroup and reemerge because there’s nothing else to fill the void,” he said.
Blinken said the US assesses “that Hamas has recruited almost as many new militants as it has lost. That is a recipe for an enduring insurgency and perpetual war.”
Geez, the comment section right here at antiwar.com has been saying that since this slaughter started.
Conscious Recall during the last days of your job…?!
We have been saying this from day one. If you displace, starve and kill the families of young men who don't have a future much less a job, what do you expect them to do? Now imagine the Zionist talking point. "We had to do what we did because Hamas said they will repeat October 7th again and again." Here we are 50k+ dead and 15 months later, the ranks of Hamas are swelling. And it's not just in Palestine. Young men in Jordan, Egypt, Yemen, Syria and Lebanon are waiting in the wings. Go figure the logic of an occupier.
of course i presume that logic doesn't apply to the russia-ukraine situation?
No, but only because Russians and Ukrainians are eastern slavs with a common ancestry in Rus. Both have been there for well over a thousand years. Israel –76 years old– is a foreign entity to the region. It shouldn't be difficult to understand that we have no problem with the people of Israel living there in peace. The problem is with the entity. You can read my latest publication addressing this issue.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/why-west-wrong-about-hamas/50294
"we have no problem with the people of Israel living there" That is not true. Both sides hate each other, don't try to claim the moral high ground for the Palestinians because there are 1000 terrorist acts over last 76 years that will refute that claim.
Tim as I alluded to you before, I don't have to like you to show you or any person fairness. Those who don't have blood on their hands and accept to live with Palestinians are all welcome to stay. This is the Islamic ruling and the demonstrable precedent from the early caliphs to Saladin to the Ottomans. The more just and determined the state is the more it will be able to enforce the law. Of course there may be individuals and groups who attempt to take the law into their own hands in revenge.
Of course the Palestinians have the moral high ground. read my article. As Nelson Mandela said it's the occupier who dictates the violence of the struggle. The Zionists used all methods including violence to ethnically cleanse Palestinians to create their state, and have been using violence ever since. The Palestinians response is self defense –a right the occupier doesn't have in this situation.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/why-west-wrong-about-hamas/50294
And the last 15 months of terrorism by Israel makes anything the Palestinians have done in the last 76 years pale in comparison. And I'm talking about the last 76 years COMBINED.
you are ridiculous
the real world which you don’t live in doesn’t give 2 shits about “common ancestry” or whatever else you come up with
if i kill a fellow czech, is it not bad because Poles and Czechs are “common ancestors?”
Was the German occupation of Netherlands not occpation because they’re brothers?
And nevermind that, Israelites and Arabs are both semites which speak a closely related language
Add that to your “publication”
Western liberalism instigated this differentiating between Ukrainians and Russians. However, of course the same ethnic group may have a civil war over ideology. There are Ukrainians who are willing to be in the Russian sphere. Israel as an entity is not just an affront to Palestinians and the entire middle East, it is an affront to judaism as well.
You are unbelievable
"There are Ukrainians who are willing to be in the Russian sphere"
A small minority in the teens.
You have absolutely NO understanding of our Slavic history, and it is laughable to see you try and act like you do
Look Krzysztof, I am not pretending to know about the full history of Russians and Ukrainians. You asked whether it was similar to Israel, and it's not. I don't defend Russia. I am with justice wherever it is, even if its against me. My principles on this don't change. Civilians are to be protected on all sides, and individual instances are taken on a case by case basis according to law. I don't know what your issue is. The majority of Ukrainians want peace, freedom and a decent life. Only just rulers can do that for them.
“The majority of Ukrainians want peace, freedom and a decent life. Only just rulers can do that for them.”
And you think Russia can provide that? The Ukrainian Government should
“The majority of Ukrainians want peace”
Yes. the majority do. However, they want a just peace where Russia is not allowed to get whatever it wants. In case you haven’t noticed, Russia wants the full annexation of Ukraine
I didn't say I support Russia to annex all of Ukraine. If a leader can show sincerity and work for the interests of the majority based on universal morals, people will go with the better person.
Ok then why are you saying Ukraine should give up land?
“Should” is a subjective thing.
The Ukrainian regime isn’t likely to come out of this war with Donetsk, Luhansk, or especially Crimea under its control.
That’s only my opinion, but it’s based on “is” evaluations rather than “ought” considerations.
I didn't say that. I do believe the war could have been avoided had the US not taken such a belligerent stance of surrounding Russia with NATO.
"'Ukrainians who are willing to be in the Russian sphere'[?]….A small minority in the teens."
"In the teens"? Advance thanks for supporting an otherwise worthless claim…
…starting with repeated, internationally carried out polls of Crimea.
“internationally carried out polls of Crimea.”
Name a few
Give a few examples of
“internationally carried out polls of Crimea.”
carried out under the fascist regime of Putin
"Name a few….Give a few examples of 'internationally carried out polls of Crimea.'"
1/ You're the one claiming "small minority in the teens" – it's on you to support your claim.
2/ "Name a few"? Ya mean yer claiming "low teens" but yer totally ignorant of international Crimea polls?
So now you want me to do all yer work for you? I mean this is too funny.
Do a lick of work, ya freakin' lazebag – support yer "low teens" claim – or didja' just pull those numbers outa yer ass?
Silly Krzysztóf … Don't mess with abramawicz's shtick (demanding proof for others' claims while not providing proof for his). It's what he lives for, and expecting any kind of parity on it is a losing bet.
1/ awww, gee look – yr a popular guy! he 'likes' yr 'moderator' anklebiting! know why?
2/ cause thx to yr nose up other posters' butts, the lazebag gets a free pass – doesn't even have to try to support a bogus claim – a claim i gave advance warning i'd knock down w/international crimea poll data…
3/ and yea, i call out posters who make claims – and – it's debate 101 – demand they support their claim before counter-evidence
My “ankle-biting” has nothing whatsoever to do with being a “moderator.”
As the latter, I delete comments which, and/or ban commenters who, violate the site’s guidelines.
When biting ankles, it’s entirely a a commenter, not “moderator.”
You might want to look into getting a rabies vaccine.
You are right about the struggle of the Palestinian people against the Zionist colonizers. But you are wrong to regard Russians and Ukrainians as members of the same ethnic national group.
Nations are often formed in struggles against oppressors. 150 years ago the indigenous people of the ME were Arabs affiliated with various tribes and emirates under the suzerainity of the Ottoman caliphate. Distinct national identities like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Jordan formed later in response to decolonization. There was no distinct Palestinian national identity under the Ottoman Empire. Palestine was part of the Ottoman Arab province of Syria until it became a target of Zionist colonization and subject of the British mandate. A distinct Palestinian national identity emerged in the 20th century in the context of the struggle of indigenous Arabs against Zionist colonizers and British imperialists.
After Rus was overthrown by the Mongols the 13th century, Ukraine and Moscovy separated. The duchy of Moscow retained nominal independence as a vassal of the Mongols. Ukraine developed separately. The grand duchy of Moscow eventually grew to be the Russian empire. In 1547 Peter the Great proclaimed himself to be Czar of "all the Russias" including Ukraine and the rest of the slavic world. Almost 300 years ago Russia completed the conquest of Ukraine which by then was no longer part of Russia linguistically, culturally, politically or religiously. Russia tried to forcibly assimilate Ukraine throughout the 19th century. Ukrainian resistance to forced assimilation gave rise to a distinct national identity that Russian chauvinists like Putin can't understand or respect.
The formation of the Ukrainian nation in response to Russian conquest, colonization and attempted assimilation has a lot of parallels to the rise of Irish nationalism in response to British imperialism.
Thew failure to appreciate that Ukraine is a separate nation from Russia leads to a lot of wrong thinking about the Ukrainian conflict with Russia.
We don't disagree. I am talking about racial DNA. They are eastern Slavs, with a common ancestry and intermingling. I know the history of Arabs and Palestinians. I don't adhere to nation state constructs. Yes Ukrainians and russians are separate nations. Just like Syrians, Jordanians, Palestinians and Lebanese are seperate nationalities but the same grouping of people.
People were made into nations and tribes to get to know each other.
" kill the families of young men" You don't need to kill the families of young men, you need to kill the young men. Israel will not win the war military with their current strategy.
Even better, no need to kill anyone. When justice is implemented all life is protected.
BTW, the first woman to interrupt Blinken's parting speech calling him bloody Blinken was a Muslim woman in hijab. How many of us guys would do that. Go tell her how oppressed she is as a Muslim woman. @luisaldamiz:disqus
Would she have been able to do that in a Muslim country that adheres to Shairah Law? And I'm actually asking.
Yes of course, not only do we have a precedent for it 1400 years ago but a similar thing happened in Gaza under the Hamas administration. The chief judge decided that female lawyers coming to court would have to wear hijab. The women protested and the Hamas government rescinded the judge's order.
That's a wrong question unless you can show that America is sending $27 billion to make that happen.
Some people, clueless, fall for the logic and history peddled by the White House and Fox News. Meanwhile, in the New York Times, some were flipping over their own muddled thinking and wallowing in sadness and anger because no one was protesting the genocide in Sudan. Again, how many tranches of the $27 billion have been given to any party in Sudan?
The ICC has to arrest Bibi Nutty Yahoo first. Then the cards of genocide and lies will start to fall. And it will expose the "all talk no action" stance of the USA!
That was a Real speech versus the hollow nonsense spewing from his mouth…!
Blinken moved his office from DC to Tel Aviv for a few weeks after the October 7, 2024 event to help Israel…!!! If that is not a fucking traitor performance by a US Secretary of State… I don't know what the heck is…!
A man without the slightest shred of decency or honor.
"A protester disrupted Blinken's speech at the Atlantic Council, calling him the 'Secretary of Genocide'"
Oh, heavens! And at the good man's farewell address! How callous!
And only imagine if the Secretary of State's toddlers witnessed the bestial act against their beloved father! Why they might well have been traumatized!
I only pray the citizen-traitor was arrested for disturbing the peace, given a proper tongue lashing, shot in the back of the head, and flung naked into a mass grave of slaughtered Gazans. "Genocide," indeed!