More Weapons for Israel’s Genocide in Gaza

W.J. Astore

Focus on Reality, Not Kayfabe

In my email this morning is this short synopsis from Reuters:

US will send more bombs and warplanes to Israel

  • Details: The new arms package is worth billions of dollars and contains more than 1,800 MK84 2,000-pound bombs and 500 MK82 500-pound bombs, sources said. President Joe Biden on the same day said he was devastated by the suffering of the people Israel is bombing in the Gaza Strip and that “we must also pause to reflect on the pain being felt by so many in the Arab American community with the war in Gaza.”

All credit to Reuters for juxtaposing those two items. As President Biden claims he is “devastated” by the Palestinian people and their suffering in Gaza, he’s sending Israel more bombs to devastate Palestinians in Gaza.

If the U.S. government were truly against genocide, it would stop sending genocide-enabling weapons to Israel. If Biden were truly frustrated by Bibi Netanyahu, an arms embargo would be an effective way to show it. But the Biden-Netanyahu spat is kayfabe, a staged event that we’re supposed to pretend is true.

Let’s pretend this is real and unscripted

Kayfabe is a useful concept from the world of “professional” wrestling. Bibi is now being set up as the bad guy, with Biden as something like a good guy, trying to get Bibi to moderate his behavior.

Very few people are fooled by this nonsense. Much more importantly, people in Gaza are dying while this staged nonsense is shoved in our faces by the corporate-owned media.

8 thoughts on “More Weapons for Israel’s Genocide in Gaza”

  1. Regarding your last post that genocide Joe is sending another arm package to Israel, do you know if he is again sidestepping Congress? If only some brave Democrat supposedly for ceasefire would call for his impeachment.

    PS I already receive your posts so did not know how to fill out some of the form below.

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    1. I read that the F-35 sale had already been approved. But, as you know, Congress is almost entirely pro-Israel, so I suppose there’s no sidestepping, though there’s plenty of BS posturing.

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  4. FOLLOW the MONEY

    ELECTIONS ARE EXPENSIVE

    CONGRESS IS TOTALLY BOUGHT

    HELP to get rid of CITIZENS UNITED and reduce the influence of BIG and DARK money in our government

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  5. A recollection from the early Obama Administration: a ‘cartoon’ illustrating the Obama marionette with the strings being controlled by Robert Rubin. A picture is worth 1000 words, at least.

    And so who is pulling Biden’s strings — that’s a question that’s been asked for several years now, when it first became crystal clear Biden was the ‘shell’ and others were in charge.

    To think those in charge could truly believe the broad swath of American people would or could believe this latest charade? It’s insulting at the very minimum.

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    1. Who is pulling Biden’s strings? 

      The same people who pulled Trump’s, Obama’s, Cheney’s/Bush the Lesser’s, Clinton’s, and Bozo’s and Bush the Elder’s strings.

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