This involves walking on loose ground or balancing tightrope walkers without a net.
It is clear that President Joe Biden does not exactly feel great friendship with Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel, however, is the great ally in the Middle East and has a great pressure lobby in the United States. In turn, the Democratic Party, the progressive wing, tends to solidarity with Palestine.
This contradiction is expressed in Biden, who can be so opposed to the ceasefire, while Hamas holds hostages, as he laments the indiscriminate attacks in Gaza or affirms that "hospitals must be protected" by the army's bombings Israeli
Despite the rhetoric of appeasement, the sector of the left revolts against Biden because he does not prevent the slaughter of Palestinians due to Jerusalem's retaliation after the October 7 attack. And this protest is no longer just expressed in words.
A New York non-profit rights organization, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), sued President Biden for failing in his duty under international and US law to prevent Israel from commit genocide in Gaza. There is a maxim spread among these groups to counter the Israeli narrative: "Genocide is not self-defense."
The CCR launched the complaint on behalf of Palestinian groups and individuals who allege that Israel's actions, including mass killings, attacks on civilian infrastructure and forced expulsions, are elements that characterize the concept of genocide.
According to his argument, the 1948 international convention against this crime requires the US and other countries to use their power and influence to stop the killings.
“As a close and powerful ally of Israel, and the largest provider of military assistance by a long margin and the largest recipient of its foreign aid since World War II, the US has the resources to have a deterrent effect on Israeli officials that they comment on genocidal acts against the Palestinian people", the complaint states.
The initiative was presented in a California court and it is noted that "this ongoing genocide has been made possible by the unconditional support of Biden, the Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, and the Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin".
The plaintiffs are seeking injunctive relief to ask administration officials to take "every measure within their power" to end the bombing of Gaza, lift the Israeli siege and order the evacuation of 1.2 million Palestinians
It is not the only initiative critical of the White House. Dozens of State Department employees signed a letter addressed to Blinken expressing disagreement with the policy of supporting Israeli retaliation. At least three internal cables, relayed by the dissident channel established during the Vietnam War, urged President Biden to request an immediate ceasefire.
More than 100,000 people demonstrated in Washington in favor of Israel. "We have the right to live", they chanted. Therefore, nothing to stop the assault on Gaza.
