The true depravity of Joe Biden’s foreign policy, which Blinken was merely executing, was made clear in a feature article by Franklin Foer just published by The Atlantic. Both the author and the place of publication are significant.

Foer is the author of The Last Politician (2023), an extremely sympathetic account of Biden’s presidency, based on deep access to the White House. The same access to top sources is evident in his latest article. The Atlantic is one of America’s most ardently Zionist publications, edited as it is by Jeffrey Goldberg, a former prison guard for the Israel Defense Force.

On the matter of Israel’s man-made famine, Foer provides an interesting corroborating detail. In early April, national security adviser Jake Sullivan met with Israeli officials in the Situation Room and was prepared to tell them, “You’re about to be responsible for the third famine of the 21st century.” Sullivan never got to make his speech, because the Israelis sprang a new crisis on the White House by telling Sullivan they had just bombed an Iranian consulate in Syria, killing prominent Iranian military leaders.

This is emblematic of the story Foer tells: a White House trying to do the right thing but being overmastered by events and Israeli recklessness.

Antony Blinken’s unwillingness to be honest about the famine in Gaza is a particularly glaring example of Biden’s delusional and dishonest foreign policy. Blinken’s resignation would be welcome, but would achieve little. Positive change might come if Kamala Harris wins the election and replaces Biden’s foreign policy team wholesale. But she would also need to reject the delusional commitment to a Saudi-Israeli alliance that is the root problem. However desirable, this scenario remains unlikely unless there is a much wider public opposition to the bipartisan foreign policy consensus.

  • Carrolade@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    reject the delusional commitment to a Saudi-Israeli alliance that is the root problem

    Interesting assessment. Let’s not forget that Israel can change its course if they simply get rid of Netanyahu and his Likud, and elect a more Rabin-like politician. He was working towards the two-state solution in the 1990s, by dismantling the illegal West Bank settlements before his assassination by a right winger. The following election was won by Netanyahu by only a single percentage point

    There are peaceful options asides siding with warmongers, whether they’re Jihadist or Zionist.