Working Tirelessly for a Ceasefire Deal

So we have a ceasefire deal. And it was Trump that made it happen. I mean - how long has he neem working tirelessly for a ceasefire deal? And then the Democrats lose the White House and pow - ceasefire deal. Also - as Biden so proudly notes - it's the same deal as from May 31. 229 days of stall and delay and genocide, all endorsed by Joe. For what? Blinken admitted yesterday that they assess that Hamas has recruited as many fighters as have been killed, so they didn't do shit to eliminate Hamas. Earlier on, I said that this all would have been for nothing - that Hamas was going to survive the onslaught, thereby annulling the primary reason for the violence. But I was young and naive - I did not believe that Biden's actual goal was to kill a lot of Arabs. How stupid of me - of course America's unstated goal was killing Arabs - it's as American as apple pie.

And that Trump is getting credit, that's actually what Biden wants. He did not contest that Trump made it happen. When pushed on it, he just said "are you kidding?" and then walked away. Why? Because he does not want to be tied to anything that results in less killing of Arabs. He thinks that being responsible for a ceasefire will make him a bad Zionist, which is what he fears most of all.

How else can we explain it? The fact is that Israel is the client state - it is entirely dependent on the US for its very existence. If the president wanted anything out of Israel, he can get it - Israel has no choice but to agree. There's that story of how Reagan ended an Israeli massacre of Muslims with a single phone call. Because that is the reality. POTUS has full control over Israel - it exists solely at the American president's discretion. If Israel wasn't such a fucking violent racist nation with a long history of just overwhelmingly bullshit war crimes - this would not be true. If it made any effort at reconciliation with the rest of the region and ended the occupation - it could continue on its own merits. But they won't - largely due to the fact that the US is more than happy to support their racist aggression.

What's Trump's motivation here? Who the hell knows! It's Trump - dude is "a very stable genius". He's erratic and irrational. If someone got a chance to pitch this idea to him and just out of random chance, it took - then that's the new policy. Maybe Trump was in a good mood when someone told him "if you force Bibi into a ceasefire, you'll look like a genius statesman and Biden will look like a useless wimp" - and that's all it took. Or maybe he got orders from MBS. Or maybe there's a secret side deal for more genocide after Trump is sworn in. Anything's possible with Trump.

So now - Democrats have a choice. Joe Biden's legacy will be genocide - his administration will be forever tied to these fifteen months of mass slaughter. And - if it truly is a ceasefire deal with international humanitarian agencies being given access to the killing fields - it's going to be current news for quite some time. So what are Democrats going to do? Will they break from their Islamophobic past - throwing Biden and the rest of the genocide enthusiasts under the bus? Imagine - putting the Clintons out to pasture, never to speak at a major Democratic event again. Or will they double down on "actually, genocide is good when you do it to Arabs"?

I'm not optimistic. It'll be progressives and minorities and special interests pitted against the old guard. And while the playing field is tilted against the old guard - I don't see them relinquishing power even if it does mean tying the party to racist bullshit and genocide.