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Norman Solomon: More Orwellian Lies
Biden’s Convention Speech Made Absurd Claims About His Gaza Policy
by Norman Solomon Posted onAugust 21, 2024
An observation from George Orwell – “those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future” – is acutely relevant to how President Biden talked about Gaza during his speech at the Democratic convention Monday night. His words fit into a messaging template now in its eleventh month, depicting the U.S. government as tirelessly seeking peace, while supplying the weapons and bombs that have enabled Israel’s continual slaughter of civilians.
“We’ll keep working, to bring hostages home, and end the war in Gaza, and bring peace and security to the Middle East,” Biden told the cheering delegates. “As you know, I wrote a peace treaty for Gaza. A few days ago I put forward a proposal that brought us closer to doing that than we’ve done since October 7th.”
It was a journey into an alternative universe of political guile from a president who just six days earlier had approved sending $20 billion worth of more weapons to Israel. Yet the Biden delegates in the convention hall responded with a crescendo of roaring admiration.
Applause swelled as Biden continued: “We’re working around-the-clock, my secretary of state, to prevent a wider war and reunite hostages with their families, and surge humanitarian health and food assistance into Gaza now, to end the civilian suffering of the Palestinian people and finally, finally, finally deliver a ceasefire and end this war.”
In Chicago’s United Center, the president basked in adulation while claiming to be a peacemaker despite a record of literally making possible the methodical massacres of tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians.
Orwell would have understood. A political reflex has been in motion from top U.S. leaders, claiming to be peace seekers while aiding and abetting the slaughter. Normalizing deception about the past sets a pattern for perpetrating such deception in the future.
And so, working inside the paradigm that Orwell described, Biden exerts control over the present, strives to control narratives about the past, and seeks to make it all seem normal, prefiguring the future.
The eagerness of delegates to cheer for Biden’s mendaciously absurd narrative about his administration’s policies toward Gaza was in a broader context – the convention’s lovefest for the lame-duck president.
Hours before the convention opened, Peter Beinart released a short video essay anticipating the fervent adulation. “I just don’t think when you’re analyzing a presidency or a person, you sequester what’s happened in Gaza,” he said. “I mean, if you’re a liberal-minded person, you believe that genocide is just about the worst thing that a country can do, and it’s just about the worst thing that your country can do if your country is arming a genocide.”
Beinart continued: “And it’s really not that controversial anymore that this qualifies as a genocide. I read the academic writing on this. I don’t see any genuine scholars of human rights international law who are saying it’s not indeed there… If you’re gonna say something about Joe Biden, the president, Joe Biden, the man, you have to factor in what Joe Biden, the president, Joe Biden, the man, has done, vis-à-vis Gaza. It’s central to his legacy. It’s central to his character. And if you don’t, then you’re saying that Palestinian lives just don’t matter, or at least they don’t matter this particular day, and I think that’s inhumane. I don’t think we can ever say that some group of people’s lives simply don’t matter because it’s inconvenient for us to talk about them at a particular moment.”
Underscoring the grotesque moral obtuseness from the convention stage was the joyful display of generations as the president praised and embraced his offspring. Joe Biden walked off stage holding the hand of his cute little grandson, a precious child no more precious than any one of the many thousands of children the president has helped Israel to kill.
Norman Solomon is the national director of RootsAction.org and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. He is the author of many books including War Made Easy. His latest book, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine, was published in 2023 by The New Press.
Democrat delegates cover mouths in Gaza protest during Biden speech | The National
President Biden’s administration has been resolute in its support of Israel.
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Its looking more like this.Democrat delegates cover mouths in Gaza protest during Biden speech | The National
President Biden’s administration has been resolute in its support of Israel.
Shut your mouth Franky....Kamala is the 2nd coming of Barrack Obama...She will save Gaza from Trump who will start WW3 and have his finger on that red button...
Hey rich, how much money do you think it was worth the US sending to spend on this?
why are they lining up those kids like that Franky? shouldn't they be in beds? For Photo op? and Kamala and Biden are doing everything to achieve "ceasefire"... Hamas doesn't want it.
That's how busy medical care gets when you keep bombing schools, rich.
Netanyahu is the one who has declared he won't accept an end to the genocide, stop lying.
Is it more clear when you watch the video of the children the US is paying to kill?
No franky...this video is wrong in so many levels... not even a cot for th ose kids? that's BS... looks like whoever ran Gaza is a corrupt POS if they don't even build bunkers in case of war... "tunnels are for Hamas not civilians".
Tunnels built to protect our fighters, not civilians: Hamas official
Citing Geneva Conventions, the Hamas official said that it is the responsibility of the United Nations to provide Gaza civilians with all the services as long as they are under occupation.
Staggeringly thickNo franky...this video is wrong in so many levels... not even a cot for th ose kids? that's BS... looks like whoever ran Gaza is a corrupt POS if they don't even build bunkers in case of war... "tunnels are for Hamas not civilians".
Tunnels built to protect our fighters, not civilians: Hamas official
Citing Geneva Conventions, the Hamas official said that it is the responsibility of the United Nations to provide Gaza civilians with all the services as long as they are under occupation.www.indiatoday.in
Rich, Israel has blown up all the hospitals and schools. They are making do with whatever they can find.No franky...this video is wrong in so many levels... not even a cot for th ose kids? that's BS... looks like whoever ran Gaza is a corrupt POS if they don't even build bunkers in case of war... "tunnels are for Hamas not civilians".
Tunnels built to protect our fighters, not civilians: Hamas official
Citing Geneva Conventions, the Hamas official said that it is the responsibility of the United Nations to provide Gaza civilians with all the services as long as they are under occupation.
Corrupt as shit?
The US just sent $2000 worth of explosives to each kid, woman and person in Gaza.
All they have left to blow up are people.
Where are you going to put cots, rich?
They don't want american money to pay for more of this.
Huh.
I thought you had said before you were against that.
Perhaps I was misremembering.
I had thought the genocide would be over by now and not looking like it'll continue as general US policy before, either.
Netanyahu won't let it end and Harris doesn't seem to have a problem with that.
