THREAD: Biden's Secretary of State Antony Blinken has made several awful remarks on CNN tonight, making abundantly clear how infuriatingly biased towards Israel the admin's policy will be. Here are 3 quick video highlights:
Blinken explicitly endorses Israel's unlawful & widely-condemned declaration of Jerusalem as its capital. Asked whether he'd support a Palestinian capital in occupied East Jerusalem (from which Israel is obligated to withdraw under int'l law), Blinken becomes non-committal:
When asked about Israel's illegal annexation of the Syrian Golan Heights, Blinken again provides cover for land theft, refusing to criticize Trump's endorsement of such annexation & using security as a pretext to excuse it:
To reflect on how outrageous this☝is, imagine if Iran captured the Syrian Golan Heights using Netanyahu's threats as a pretext -- Would Blinken ever excuse it? Of course not! Only Israeli land theft is magically justifiable in the name of "security".
Then you have this Orwellian false equivalence about "unilateral steps", when in reality the US enables Israeli unilateral steps (like settlements) that undermine peace, while punishing Palestinian steps that actually help peace (seeking UN/ICC accountability for Israeli crimes).
If Blinken & the Biden administration were at all serious about achieving peace, there is only one simple policy option: End US support for Israeli occupation and apartheid! You cannot arm and fund the problem while claiming to want to solve it!
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