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2024-02-11 Home Front: Politix
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Top Biden aide tells US-Arab leaders he has no confidence in Israeli government
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[IsraelTimes] In recorded meeting in Dearborn, deputy NSA Jon Finer also says administration finds some Israeli leaders ’somewhat abhorrent’; constituency is key to Biden’s reelection hopes
A top White House official said he does not have "any confidence" in the current Israeli government, specifically regarding its readiness to take "meaningful steps" toward the creation of a Paleostinian state, The New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
reported Friday, citing a recording from a meeting between the official and Arab American leaders in Dearborn, Michigan.
That seems reasonable. I have no confidence in the current Palestinian leadership in either territory to take meaningful steps toward the creation of a Palestinian state. US Deputy National Security Adviser Jon Finer reportedly made the comments Thursday during a visit to the city, which has a large Arab-American population. He visited alongside other Biden administration officials, including ex-UN ambassador Samantha Shanty Irish Power, to plead the president’s case before a constituency that is crucial for his 2024 reelection bid, but has been outraged by his support for Israel during its war with Hamas
 ...always the voice of sweet reason...
in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip.
According to the report, Finer told attendees at the meeting about the Biden administration’s efforts to end the war in Gaza, and to establish formal diplomatic relations between Israel and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, which, he said, is a crucial step toward Paleostinian statehood and would demand all parties to compromise.
"We will have to do things for Saudi Arabia that will be very unpopular in this country and in our Congress," Finer was quoted as saying. "Will Israel be willing to do the hard thing that’s going to be required of them, which is meaningful steps for the Paleostinians on the question of two states? I don’t know if the answer to that is yes. I do not have any confidence in this current government of Israel."
Finer also called some unnamed Israeli officials "abhorrent" and said the adaministration should have taken a stronger stand against those who compared "residents of Gaza to animals."
While he did not name names, the Times report specified that Defense Minister Yoav Gallant was quoted in the first days of the war saying, "We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly."
Would Mr. Finer have been happier if he’d described them as brainwashed psychopaths? Because that is what they’ve been trained from childhood by the PA and Hamas governments to be. Gallant was referring to Paleostinian snuffies behind the October 7 massacres in Israel and not all residents of Gaza, but his quote has been widely used as ostensible proof of Israeli dehumanization of the Gaza population.
"Out of a desire to sort of focus on solving the problem and not engaging in a rhetorical back-and-forth with people who, in many cases, I think we all find somewhat abhorrent, we did not sufficiently indicate that we totally rejected and disagreed with those sorts of sentiments," Finer said.
He also expressed regret at the "missteps" the Biden administration has made handling the war, particularly with regard to a perceived lack of concern about the civilian casualties as it refused to back calls for a ceasefire.
"We are very well aware that we have missteps in the course of responding to this crisis since October 7," Finer said.
"We have left a very damaging impression based on what has been a wholly inadequate public accounting for how much the president, the administration and the country values the lives of Paleostinians. And that began, frankly, pretty early in the conflict," he added.
Most explicitly, he expressed remorse that a Biden statement marking 100 days of war did not mention Paleostinians killed in Gaza.
"It did not in any way address the loss of Paleostinian life during the course of the first 100 days of the conflict," Finer said, according to the Times. "There is no excuse for that. It should not have happened. I believe it will not happen again. But we know that there was a lot of damage done."
Finer declined The New York Times’ request for comment.
The News Agency that Dare Not be Named later reported that a White House National Security Council spokeswoman had confirmed the reported comments’ veracity, but sought to downplay them, saying that "the President and Mr. Finer were reflecting on concerns we have had for some time and will continue to have as the Israeli operation proceeds, about the loss of Paleostinian lives in this conflict and the need to reduce civilian harm."
The comments reported in the Times come as the White House has stepped up public criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s resistance to the prospect of Paleostinian statehood, and his prosecution of the war, which Biden said Thursday was "over the top."
Among those present at the Thursday meeting were Osama Siblani, publisher of the Dearborn-based Arab American News, one of whose previous meetings with Biden administration representatives was slammed by the Anti-Defamation League due to the publisher’s remark at an October rally that Hamas "is not a terrorist organization."
Finer also reportedly met with Abdullah Hammoud, the mayor of Dearborn, who, in a November rally, articulated Arab Americans’ growing disenchantment with Biden ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
"If American democracy depends on our current president being reelected, then why is being bedfellows with the terrorist Netanyahu, worth sacrificing American democracy?" Hammoud was quoted by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), a Washington-based think tank.
Hammoud has recently found himself at odds with MEMRI after a senior figure from the think tank published a Wall Street Journal op-ed dubbing Dearborn America’s "jihad capital," which led the mayor to beef up security in the Michigan city, and elicited condemnation from President Biden.
Michigan is a battleground state in the 2024 US presidential election in November. Biden won it in 2020 with a margin of under 3 percent. Arab Americans make up some 2 percent of Michigan’s population.
Dearborn, which has America’s highest per-capita population of Arab Americans, is represented on Capitol Hill by Rep. Rashida Tlaib
...the very first ever Paleostinian-American ever sworn into Congress in 2019. She is a member of The Squad and consistently votes against the U.S. national interest. She's a Dem, naturally, from a safe district you wouldn't want to live in (Michigan's 12th congressional district). She wants the country to be kinda like Gaza only without any Jews for neighbors...
, the first Paleostinian-American elected to Congress, who has fronted progressive Democratic calls for a ceasefire.
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