US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s final press conference was interrupted on Thursday by two journalists who blasted him over the US’s support for Israel’s war on Gaza before they were forcibly removed from the State Department’s press briefing room.
The journalists repeatedly interrupted Blinken within the first 15 minutes of his hour-long press conference. The outgoing Secretary of State asked both men to hold their questions until later, but they persisted until security guards came to take them away.
“Why did you keep the bombs flowing?” Max Blumenthal, editor of the Grayzone, an online news site, shouted at Blinken from the back of the press room. “Why did you sacrifice the rules-based order on the mantle of your commitment to Zionism?”
Asked by one reporter if he had any regrets about not enforcing red lines on Israel, Blinken said the Biden administration’s policies “were basically supported by an overwhelming majority of Israelis after the trauma of October 7”.
so, to the “overwhelming majority of Israelis” comment: This is the full comment
if I may engage in a bit of sane washing for just a second… I think what he’s trying to say is that our approach was tempered by the extreme emotions being felt by israelis basically as a whole. And Yes, I sort of get what he’s saying. ultimately its the same argument zionists use to justify aid to Israel for… well… longer than I’ve been alive. basically, that our aid gives us a leash to help restrain Israel from doing… a genocide.
it’s actually even more infuriating than the idea that he’s drafting american policy according to the polling of foreign nationals, personally.
I remember 9/11 and where I was (highschool. i was in the school’s graphics lab. The teacher just went and turned on the TV news and we spent the entire class in stunned silence. I still remember the musty smell of commercial carpet and school-basement.)
I remember very well the anger and rage I felt. People needed to pay. it didn’t help that certain people took advantage of that attack specifically to satisfy their own agenda and greed, inflaming emotions. anyone who is right-thinking should have a sense of shame about what we- as americans- did to Iraq and Afghanistan. This is not to say we should have done nothing, but rather that what we did do was shameful, and we could, and should, have done better.
So yes, I do have some sympathy, some understanding, of what Israelis are feeling.
But that hurt and fear does not, could not, and must never justify genocide.
Blinken is patting himself on the back for getting an asshole to stop throwing bricks, conveniently ignoring that he was the one handing the asshole bricks in the first place, and that the asshole only stopped after it completely knocked out every window and most the doors in this proverb.
One does not give a child who is lashing out in rage a knife.
One does not give a bully, who just found out what happens when you push to hard, too far, and get punched in the face, a fucking gun.
It is immoral, unethical, and blatantly illegal to give a genocidal regime the tools they want, to continue prosecuting genocide.
It is not necessary to accommodate their demands for more weapons, to respect, and to have sympathy for the loss and hurt and fear. Accommodating those demands in abeyance of US law; and frankly, just plain common sense,
Biden administration’s policies “were basically supported by an overwhelming majority of Israelis after the trauma of October 7”.
Too bad Biden wasn’t running for president of Israel but here in America, now he has to hand over the reigns to a fascist.
The multi-dimensional levels of irony are staggering.
lol, the fascist will support israel even harder.
What’s harder than genocide, dummy? Nuclear strikes?
lol, you think it can’t get worse? oh my sweet summer child
Answer the question, deedee.
At least no one had the opportunity to vote for someone who was anti-genocide.
Well they did, but not unscathed by those who weren’t.
Asked by one reporter if he had any regrets about not enforcing red lines on Israel, Blinken said the Biden administration’s policies “were basically supported by an overwhelming majority of Israelis after the trauma of October 7”.
And this is the US, which is run by Some Other Country’s Majority Rule.
Blinken said the Biden administration’s policies “were basically supported by an overwhelming majority of Israelis after the trauma of October 7”.
Okay what? Did Biden’s senility infect Blinken too? He knows he’s the secretary of state of America right?
He knows he’s the secretary of state of America right?
He knows what country he represents. It’s not the US.
Yeah that’s not at all a valid reason for enabling genocide. Won’t stop him continuing to use that as his only excuse :(
Is Blinken the Secretary of State of Israel or the United States?
State Department briefings in the last 16 months has been a constant demonstration they felt serving Israeli interests came first.
Blinken said the Biden administration’s policies “were basically supported by an overwhelming majority of Israelis after the trauma of October 7”.
Justified Genocide.
“We never asked the Palestinians.”
What this journalist also wanted to ask about is Blinken relations with his step father and their relations to Maxwell’s family.
I went to read a bit and found out Blinken’s step father name is Samuel Pisar and he was the “confidant” and maybe the last person to speak to Robert Maxwell. You know the mosad agent who is also happen to be the father of Ghislaine Maxwell !
This is only the tip of the iceberg…
Did you read that his great-uncle Maurice was an early backer of Israel?
His son, Maurice Blinken, was an early backer of Israel and founded the American Palestine Institute which helped persuade the United States to back the creation of Israel.
What the heck are you implying?
That the mossad is running a sexual blackmail operation? Isn’t it clear to everybody at this point?
It’s odd that Jizzstain Maxwell is in the circles, but that is generally just how a society that rewards nepotism above all else operates.
He’s a shitbag cunt.
The dems will bring him back in some form too. I’d bet money on it. He and Shapiro are their prized cash cows. I bet they run one of them for president in this next cycle or two, assuming we ever get to vote again afetr they ran us all straight off the road this time.
