I am hearted and grateful for those whose actions are aligned with their conscience and moral compass, integrity and courage, and compassion and consciousness of the need to value and protect life — all of which outweigh loyalty to anyone who is brazenly and criminally acting to destroy life and collude in committing mass murder.
That said, I am also deeply aware that these are incredibly sad, dangerous, and chilling times. In the upcoming presidential election, Biden is once again pitted against Trump — a pathological liar and malignant narcissist who is xenophobic, racist, misogynist, an authoritarian fascist wannabe dictator, and now also a convicted felon. The choice seems clear, right?
There is one problem. And, in my perspective, the greatest threat to Biden — and more than his brutal deportation policies or his age, the neoliberalism which has dominated the whole of Biden's political career, and his record related to continuing to drill baby drill and persist in keeping us on a suicidal trajectory — is his unwavering support of the genocide in Gaza. Biden's alignment with the psychopath Netanyahu may just cost him the election. Which terrifies me.
I absolutely know that Trump would be even worse, much worse than Biden. But, that said, how can Biden honestly and authentically criticize Trump's criminality when he himself day after day, month after month funds the annihilation of the whole of the Palestinian people?
Our "choices" break my heart.
Some will say that I shouldn't share articles such as this, that any bright shining light on Biden's actions related to Israel and Gaza may hand the election to Trump. I respond to that by highlighting that millions in our nation already know and are unwavering in our commitment to following the truth wherever it may lead. Our heads are not buried in the ground or in corporate media narratives and propaganda. Millions of us are informed. We know the truth. I also don't believe that those of us who speak the truth about our current president are responsible for what Biden is doing. Only Joe Biden is responsible for his actions, his ideologies, and whether or not he chooses to continue to fund genocide. If he loses this election, it is on him. — Molly
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| A demonstrator waves a Palestinian flag in front of the White House during a protest against the Israeli attacks on civilians in Rafah that have killed dozens of people, on May 28, 2024. ALLISON BAILEY/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES |
A total of at least nine Biden administration
officials have resigned publicly so far.
Two executive branch officials have resigned from their positions within the Biden administration due to the White House’s collaboration with Israel in its bombing and starvation campaign against Palestinians in Gaza.
The officials who resigned are Alexander Smith, a contractor with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and a senior adviser within that agency on gender, maternal health, child health and nutrition; and Stacy Gilbert, a State Department official within the Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration.
The resignations come as Israel’s U.S.-backed genocide has killed more than 36,000 Palestinians since October, with thousands more presumed to be buried under the rubble.
Smith, who has worked in his role for four years, was told that he either had to resign or be dismissed from his position after he had prepared a presentation on maternal health and child mortality for Palestinians that was abruptly canceled last week by higher-ups at USAID.
“I cannot do my job in an environment in which specific people cannot be acknowledged as fully human, or where gender and human rights principles apply to some, but not to others, depending on their race,” Smith said in his resignation letter.
Because I try very hard to understand what international humanitarian law is about, it also gives me credibility in saying what is happening in Gaza is not according to international humanitarian law.
Nine officials have resigned from the Biden administration since Israel began its bloody siege of Gaza in October. More resignations are likely to come, said Josh Paul, the first official to have publicly resigned from the administration over the White House’s participation in the genocide.
“I’m aware that there are other resignations pending in the near future from officials with similar concerns in their own areas of work,” said Paul, who had served as the director of congressional and public affairs at the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs.
Paul added that at least two dozen officials have resigned in protest without making a public declaration of their resignations.
Among those who have resigned so far is Lily Greenberg Call, the former special assistant to the Interior Department’s chief of staff and the first Jewish person within the administration to quit because of Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign. Said Call in her resignation announcement:
My whole life has been spent in Jewish community in the U.S. and Israel. People in my community lost loved ones during Hamas’s attack on October 7th; beloveds killed, displaced, and taken as hostages. I am terrified by rising antisemitism around the world. And yet I am certain that the answer to this is not to collectively punish millions of innocent Palestinians through displacement, famine, and ethnic cleansing.
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