Alameen Templeton
Joe “Bomb-bomb!” Biden wouldn’t stop the flow of arms to Israel for all the genocide in Gaza, but, when it comes to trying to salvage an election, he’s suddenly found all kinds of ways to strong-arm his Holocaust counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu into toning down his bloodlust.
Israeli and American security sources say the US and Israel have reached a “quiet understanding” to reward Israel for not attacking Iran’s oil and nuclear power infrastructure ahead of US elections, Al Monitor reports Wednesday.
The rewards include Biden’s 30-day window period, allowing Israel free rein to execute its Holocaust in Gaza, before the US “might” consider restricting some arms supplies, after the November 5 election date. They have seen the US lifting suspensions of certain arms and ammunition shipments to Israel and accelerating their supply.
Smooth sailing to election
Biden has also agreed to increase US attacks on Houthi weapons depots and other strategic targets in Yemen, Al Monitor reports.
All that in return for allowing Biden’s Democrats a smooth sailing to the November 5 showdown between Kamala Harris and Republican candidate Donald Trump. Polls put Harris’s support at 45% of the electorate and Trump’s at 44%.
Biden and the Democrat camp are reportedly terrified at the prospect of a regional war breaking out in Arabia, destroying oil infrastructure and turbocharging oil prices and inflation as US voters go to the poll. Such a scenario would be doomsday for Democrats as US voters routinely blame the incumbent when McDonalds Happy Meals shoot up unexpectedly in price.
Suddenly, after more than a year of egging on the Israelis to intensify the US genocide in Gaza, Biden’s White House eyrie is cooing to the sound of peace doves, determined not to save human lives, but to squeeze out one or two percentage points of additional support from voters.
So, the Holocaust in northern Gaza can proceed under the 30-day window, the THAAD missile defence shield and 100 US troops to man it has already arrived and more cargo planes of death are expected as Israel beefs up its genocide arsenal ahead of a threatened attack on Iran.
Europe’s Jugular
And the US will intensify its futile attacks on the Houthis in Yemen, despite most military experts dismissing the US-led flotilla of warships in the Red Sea as a complete failure. After five months of effort, 80% of shipping is now avoiding the Red Sea route to the Mediterranean, known as Europe’s Jugular, Axios reports
Iran’s “Axis of Resistance” is flexing its muscles, underlining Teheran’s reputation for asymmetric warfare, with attacks on the US Conoco base in Syria, over 140 missiles fired daily into Israel by Hezbollah and now, missile attacks on Israel by the Iraqi peshmerga.
The Guardian reports America and its allies are trying to fashion what’s being called a “Mega Deal”, as if Trump is already in the White House. That would be Netanyahu’s preferred electoral outcome, a Trump administration returning; it’s also very popular among most Israelis, according to Israeli media.
The Lawnmowers believe Trump will allow them everything, notoriously saying Israel “needs to get the job done soon” during his Primaries campaign earlier this year.
‘Not senile enough’
They distrust Harris, particularly after she responded during a campaign speech last week to a heckler accusing Israel of genocide by saying, “It’s real!” Her genocide reticence, whether real or not, has turned the Zionists against her, the Times of Israel reports Wednesday.
She simply can’t be relied on to participate eagerly enough in the visceral horrors of the Arabian genocide; she’s not “man enough” like Trump, or senile enough, like Biden.
Iranically, that might just work in her favour, with the Undecided campaign in the US determined to try and gear up resistance to the Gaza Holocaust by wringing concessions out of the candidates.
So far, they’ve had little success, being locked out of the Democratic National Convention and not bothering to even try attend the Republicans’ ho-down.
But things could change as it goes down to the wire, with Trump and Harris in recent days focussing their attentions on swing states and the Muslim vote. Slim percentages matter and that has given Muslim voters a rare opportunity to make their voices heard in this election.
The final outcome might be equally distasteful to Muslims, but they could perhaps wring out some concessions or admissions from the candidates as November 5 approaches.
Wielding the stick
Biden’s “rewards” to Netanyahu may all come to naught, but signs are also in the air that the Democrats are also trying to hold back the carrots by wielding the stick in the background.
It’s not quite “Sinwar’s stick”; it’s more a subliminal threat, a warning aimed at coaxing the Lawnmowers away from the legal jeopardy that could follow Netanyahu’s genocidal blood lust.
In addition to Harris’s “it’s real” comment about genocide, US foreign minister Anthony Blinken Tuesday used the words “ethnic cleansing” during discussions with Netanyahu in Tel Aviv.
He appealed to the demagogue to reassure the world, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that his troops were not committing ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza, but Netanyahu refused. He also has to consider the favourite concerns of his rabid electorate.
The meeting touched on the General’s Plan, which was introduced in September by retired General Giora Eiland.
Normalization dead in the water
Critics have condemned the plan, which advocates for the expulsion of Palestinians from northern Gaza and the forced starvation or targeting of those who remain, as a form of ethnic cleansing, to try force Hama’s surrender.
Blinken also hinted the “incredible opportunity” to normalise relations with Saudi Arabia, could be dead in the water if Netanyahu did not relent. Blinken has continued talks this morning and is due in Riyadh later Wednesday to discuss Saudi Arabia’s central role in rehabilitating Gaza, including using Saudi and UAE troops as enforcers.
In an apparent response, Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant telegraphed that Israel is moving ahead with plans to attack Iran and expects US support after its attack.
“The back-and-forth highlighted a long-held US frustration with the Israeli premier, who Washington feels offers private assurances that he knows the US wants to hear while failing to follow through in public due to fear of alienating the far-right coalition partners he relies on to remain in power,” Times of Israel says Wednesday.
The Blinken meeting made to difference on the ground where 383 days of genocide have killed 42 792 civilians and injured 100 412. Israel’s assault on northern Gaza continued, with dozens of deaths and injuries reported over the past 24 hours that saw more than 20 raids across the enclave, Wafa news agency reports.
Holocaust in full swing
Israeli forces maintained their weeks-long siege in northern Gaza, bombing homes, displacing residents, and blocking the entry of food, medical supplies, and other essentials.
An Israeli air strike hit a home in as-Saftawi, west of Jabalia, resulting in unspecified casualties, while warplanes bombed the Jabalia refugee camp as well as the at-Twam and Sheikh Radwan neighbourhoods of Gaza City.
At least seven people were killed when Israeli tanks shelled the Zaid bin Haritha School in Beit Lahiya, where displaced civilians were taking shelter.
Palestinians fleeing Beit Lahiya reported Israeli soldiers forcing men to strip down to their underwear, with bodies left in the streets
Israeli air strikes also hit southern Beirut suburbs, triggering large explosions and fires.
But missiles continued raining down on Israel, particularly Tel Aviv and Haifa where emergencies were declares amid huge explosions.
Sky News reports senior state department officials and journalists at his hotel rushed for air raid shelters when the missiles started falling during their breakfast.
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