What next for US foreign policy?
Sir, – Fintan O’Toole has hailed Joe Biden as “a good man, a remarkably effective president” and “a progressive president” (“
Frankly, it seems wrong to describe Joe Biden as “progressive”, bearing in mind the US role in the Gaza catastrophe. Progressive on some domestic issues, perhaps, but his presidency will be forever stained by his support for Israeli violence and colonial oppression.
President Biden has desperately failed Palestinians. While the world shared the horror at the horrendous attacks by Hamas in Israel on October 7th last, there is absolutely no justification for Israel’s response, aided and abetted by the US, which has seen nearly 10 months of killings, the starvation of an entire people, the destruction of the territory of Gaza, and the violence imposed on Palestinians in the West Bank.
For those of us who were emotional when Mr Biden was inaugurated in 2021, not least in the hope of preserving democracy in the most powerful nation in the world against the machinations of Mr Trump, there is little to argue with in what Fintan O’Toole says.
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