U.S. President Joe Biden (R) meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, DC, July 25, 2024. (Photo by Reuters)
Washington, November 20 (RHC)-- U.S. President Joe Biden has created discord within the White House over his “horrific” Israel policy amid the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip. The U.S. "Leahy Laws" prohibit supplying military aid to Washington’s allies if they are committing human rights violations and blocking aid to war victims.
However, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday American weapons and ammunition supplies to Israelis will continue despite the end of a 30-day ultimatum given to Tel Aviv to take “concrete measures” to stop its violations in Gaza and allow international humanitarian aid through.
The U.S. sustains its lethal military aid for the Israeli regime, despite the vast extent of death and destruction in Gaza.
Despite the Israeli regime largely ignoring the so-called "30-day deadline", the US withheld a single shipment of 2,000-lb bombs, allowing all other weapons shipments to continue.
Media reports said on Monday that at least 20 White House staffers, who were granted anonymity for fear of reprisals, protested to the Biden administration for failing to follow through on its demand that Israel improve the Palestinians’ conditions.
Since October 2023, nearly 44,000 Palestinians, mostly helpless women and innocent children, have been killed in the continued brutal Israeli onslaught in Gaza.
The protesting White House staffers -- who work across the executive office of the president, but are not directly involved in foreign policy -- called on the outgoing president to play a decisive role in his relations with Israelis. “You are running out of time to do the right thing, but decisive action could save precious lives in the next two months,” the protesting staffers wrote in an internal government protest letter obtained by US media.
A senior White House staffer explained the reason why they had sent the protest letter was to formally distance themselves from the "legacy of horror" Biden and his administration leave.
“One thing that drew me into this was legacy,” the senior staffer explained. “If the course is continued, it will be a legacy of horror.”
During his time in office, Biden repeatedly uttered “ironclad” support to the Israeli regime, and the Biden administration followed their leader.
In regard to Israel policy, they turned a blind eye to the zionists’ continued genocide of Palestinians in Gaza by preventing a ceasefire and backing off its ultimatum to stop military aid to the zionists over the rising death toll amid the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza.
The new UN report has found that Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip are consistent with genocide.
In the meantime, the United Nations agencies and numerous international humanitarian organizations have issued warnings regarding the genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza.
The United Nations Special Committee's assessment of the Israeli war on Gaza has been that it is consistent with genocide, reconfirming what had already been repeatedly said by other UN agencies, the International Rescue Committee's (IRC), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), and the International Criminal Court (ICC).
“The situation is critical. We have days, not weeks, to take decisive action to alleviate these dire conditions. The warnings from humanitarian organizations have been clear and consistent: failure to act will lead to more preventable deaths of civilians," Bart Witteveen, IRC's Country Director for the occupied Palestinian territory said.
“The worst-case scenario may already be underway."
