{"id":1528116,"date":"2024-03-01T06:56:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T06:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=314869"},"modified":"2024-03-01T06:56:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-01T06:56:14","slug":"let-them-eat-ice-cream-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/03\/01\/let-them-eat-ice-cream-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Them Eat Ice Cream"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"<\/a>\n
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Drawing by Nathaniel St. Clair<\/p><\/div>\n

On Monday evening, February 26, 2024, and in line with his age-related puerile behavior,\u00a0 Joe Biden was interviewed in an ice cream parlor. With a cone crowned with a copious three-scoop serving in his left hand and a smirk on his face, he fabricated an announcement about an impending ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.<\/p>\n

Monday night\u2019s callous display was a cheap and pathetic Genocide Joe PR campaign stunt.<\/p>\n

That his handlers chose Monday evening\u2019s\u00a0 \u201cLate Night with Seth Meyers\u201d segment to orchestrate this ghoulish display of banality is an insult to the 2.3 million dead, dying,\u00a0 homeless, wounded, destitute, and starving Gazans who, because of Joe\u2019s shameless, obsessive, and passionate love affair with Israel,\u00a0 are being savagely murdered, wounded, maimed,\u00a0 and ethnically cleansed from their homes and refugee camps \u2013 some for third and fourth time – in a five-month genocidal killing spree. It is also an insult to Palestinians everywhere, and especially to the Arab and Muslim Michiganders who are witnessing the systematic slaughter of family members \u2013 knowing full well that their tax dollars are supporting Genocide Joe\u2019s love affair with forever wars.<\/p>\n

Hoping to woo Michigan Arabs and Muslims to vote for him on\u00a0 Michigan\u2019s Tuesday Primary, Genocide Joe, as\u00a0 he has repeatedly done, lied to the newsman that his \u201cnational security advisor tells [him] that we\u2019re close, close [to a ceasefire] but not\u00a0 yet done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Proving that Biden is a habitual fibber (on a smaller scale than Trump), Hamas and Israel have both denied that an agreement is in the offing, or even close.<\/p>\n

Tired of his deeply rooted antipathy (bordering on xenophobia)\u00a0 towards Palestinians, his repeated lies, his disregard for Palestinian lives, and his open-ended\u00a0 14 billion dollars worth and counting of the most sophisticated arms in the US arsenal, 101,436 (13.2%)\u00a0 Michigan Arab and Muslim voters delivered a forceful message: Joe Biden, If you want our votes on November 5, 2024, stop the Israeli genocide by calling for a durable and permanent UN Ceasefire.<\/p>\n

Some media\u00a0 headlines ran as follows: \u201cFox News Freaks out over Biden\u2019s ice cream\u201d; \u201cFox News has Jesse Watters react to Biden eating ice cream in public\u201d;\u00a0 \u201cWatch: BIDEN MUNCHES ICE CREAM while telling press Israel-Hamas could have CEASEFIRE come Monday\u201c; \u201cCNN host taken aback by Biden\u2019s \u2018big announcement\u2019 from ice cream shop\u201d; and\u00a0 \u201cLate Night chides Biden for talking about Gaza while eating ice cream.\u201d The most poignant comment was made by Daily Show host Michael Kosta:\u00a0 \u201cJoe Biden had delivered his response \u2018in the most Joe Biden way possible\u2019 – that is while eating an ice cream cone.\u201d\u00a0 Kosta states that while Biden was gleefully munching on an ice cream cone, it was \u201cNot the most dignified way to deliver world-changing news. … I\u2019ll tell you what, if I was a politician, I would always have an ice cream with me, just to cram in my mouth just in case I got asked about Israel-Palestine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mairav Zonszein, an Israeli American journalist, stated: \u201cThis appears to be both irresponsible, and with the ice cream cone, tone deaf and tactless.\u201d And Greg Carlston, the Economist\u2019s Middle East correspondent, \u201cagreed. \u2018Nothing says we\u2019re taking this seriously\u2019 like talking about war that has killed \u2013 30,000 people with an ice-cream cone halfway to your mouth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Could 81-year-old Genocide Joe\u2019s age have anything to do with this foolish skit?<\/p>\n

In November 2020 I reluctantly, and because of the alternative, voted for the Jim Clyburn groomed Joe Biden. And a recurrent theme during his 2020 campaign was the painful and sorrowful memory of his first wife and 13-month-old daughter Naomi\u2019s death, coupled with Biden\u2019s repeated references to the death of his 46-year-old son, Beau, from a brain tumor.<\/p>\n

So, while Gaza\u2019s Palestinian children are starving to death, in a staged theater of the absurd (directed by Netanyahu and assisted by Joe) framed in macabre and sardonic irony, on 2\/26\/2024 Joe Biden was feasting on a large ice cream cone crowned with 3 generous scoops of vanilla ice cream. And from his childish demeanor, he appeared to be gleefully enjoying the attention he received.<\/p>\n

That he would lie about a Gaza ceasefire during his kiddish act is an insult to the 2.3 million Palestinians crying out to the world for help. Israel\u2019s genocide, sanctioned, abetted, and fully supported by Biden, has resulted in the malevolent destruction of 80% of Gaza\u2019s private and public structures. Schools, churches, mosques, historic and cultural sites, universities, and hospitals are being\u00a0pulverized for the sole purpose of ethnically cleansing Gaza of its inhabitants. That aid trucks are not allowed to deliver much-needed food and medicines adds heaps of heinous insults to heaps of contemptible injuries goes against Talmudic, Christian, Muslim, and Hindu values \u2013 which, across the globe – are declining and are currently in short supply.<\/p>\n

And the West, silent during the Holocaust years, is exposing the paucity of its moral principles. Germany stands out as a prime example. But then did the West, beginning with the Crusades and culminating with its colonization of the world, ever possess a moral compass? And the vast majority of those who suffered during the Holocaust are now advocating for a Final Gaza Solution to their cousins, the destitute people of Palestine. The few Jewish voices of conscience who\u2019ve spoken out and stood up in words and deeds to the Gaza carnage are those who\u2019ve taken their religious teachings seriously. They are the ones who will inherit the earth.<\/p>\n

In the West, the silence is deafening.<\/p>\n

So, Mr. Joe, from where I stand, I see you as a doddering senior citizen whose callous disregard for the more than 13,000+ children crying from their graves and the countless thousands from under the rubble is abhorrent. I also see the hypocritical, xenophobic, banal, and hateful side of your character. And the hundreds of thousands of surviving children who\u2019ve been forced to shelter in tents and shacks, with no heat, clean water, health care, or nourishment, Mr. Joe, will remember you as the heir to Hitler\u2019s legacy. You\u2019ve helped create 2.3 million emaciated, starved, and anemic children and adults with life-long traumas that will haunt them for years to come.<\/p>\n

Killing people standing in line to receive meager food rations (if they are lucky), bombing ambulances, holding up and bombing trucks laden with food, medicine, much-needed diapers and feminine hygiene items, and looting vacated homes is a daily occurrence. That Israeli soldiers are sending selfies of their blowing up structures in a jovial manner is abhorrent. In a video clip and prior to blowing up the entire\u00a0 Gaza University campus structures, an Israeli soldier invites the viewer to observe the result of his action: pressing a detonator, the footage shows how the entire campus is blown up and collapsed to rubble. Bragging, the soldier then tells his viewers \u201cNow, this is an open university.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Joe, during the past 8 years you\u2019ve repeatedly cited the tragic death of your first wife and infant daughter and made numerous references to your son Beau\u2019s battle with cranial cancer. And in a January 2020 MSNBC interview, you stated: \u201cYou\u2019d be surprised at the number of people who come up to me … I mean hundreds of people over time. They\u2019ll throw their arms around me, men and women and say \u2018 I just lost my son, I just lost my father, I just lost my wife\u2019… hundreds of people … throw their arms over me to tell\u00a0 about the loss of their sons, daughters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today, Mr. Joe, 2.3 million destitute Palestinians are telling you that amidst a landscape pocked with deep craters, collapsed concrete and rebar, and a ravaged landscape, they are losing newborn babies, infants, toddlers, teenagers, mothers, fathers, grandparents, entire families, and entire bloodlines numbering in the hundreds. They are telling you that some 110 Journalists have been deliberately killed lest they expose your complicity in the daily carnage and the misery inflicted on medical staff as tanks shatter large hospital compounds and as scores of doctors, nurses, and health professionals are arrested, humiliated, tortured, and often killed.\u00a0 Surely the US drones you\u2019ve sent over the Gaza skies relay footage of Israeli tanks running over dead bodies and\u00a0running amok in cemeteries, digging up and desecrating the remains of the deceased buried during 76 years of occupation and humiliation.<\/p>\n

And to Right to Lifers and Christian Evangelicals, especially the rabid American stripe, do you even care that pregnant women are delivering dead fetuses and losing their newborn babies after their first gasp of air? Are you bothered by the daily images of babies and children, draped in white plastic bags and deposited in mass graves?<\/p>\n

Hunger, thirst, starvation, homelessness, disease, and the stench of death emanating from human corpses left to decompose as maggots lay waste to what was once a life but is now left to rot while competing dogs are eating the remains of the Gaza Palestinians, noble men, women, and children who\u2019ve been dealt an egregious sentence by history, their Jewish cousins, and the corrupt, theocratic, and tyrannical Arab (with just a few exceptions) so-called brothers, and the so-called civilized world.<\/p>\n

The many exceptions in the American and world Jewish communities, including many in Israeli society, stand head and shoulders above those who profess to follow Christ.<\/p>\n

Mr. Joe, your son Beau died from cancer caused by the Iraq burn pits, a war for which you voted wholeheartedly. Please stop and think what a war you refuse to stop is doing to 2.3 million beggared, dispossessed, and pauperized human beings and their relatives in Gaza, the West Bank and around the world. And please especially think about the 1.2 million suffering Gaza children on whom you turned your back.<\/p>\n

And finally Mr. Joe, in his powerful painting,\u00a0The Scream,\u00a0<\/b>the Norwegian artist Edvard Munch poured his heart out and voiced the anguished agony of millions of destitute human beings across time and geography.<\/p>\n

Walking into the distance on the boardwalk that stretches into the background is a nicely dressed couple oblivious to the anxious, tormented, distraught, traumatized, and distorted human figure whose scream is the prototype scream of all the oppressed, brutalized, tormented human beings of the world, especially in Gaza.<\/p>\n

In the 4th<\/sup>\u00a0chapter of Genesis God admonishes Cain with the following: \u201cWhat have you done? Listen! Your brother\u2019s blood cries out to me from the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Joe, while Gaza\u2019s blood cries out from the ground….. Enjoy Your Ice Cream.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBlessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled, Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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