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One Year of Empty Rhetoric From the White House on Israel’s Wars

theintercept.com One Year of Empty Rhetoric From the White House on Israel’s Wars

The Biden administration has consistently said Israel should not kill civilians as it sends Israel more weapons to kill civilians.

One Year of Empty Rhetoric From the White House on Israel’s Wars

For the past year, Biden and his administration have assured the public it is working to protect Palestinian civilians and, more recently, that it is working on a ceasefire deal. But the U.S.-led diplomacy and rhetorical censures have fallen short of addressing the catastrophic consequences on the ground.

After a year of Israel’s relentless killing, maiming, starving and terrorizing the people of Gaza, expanding violence against Palestinians in the occupied territories of the West Bank, and launching a new war on Lebanon — and soon, perhaps, Iran — U.S. policy remains rock solid.

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