Joe Biden’s Gaza Problem: It’s Not Just the Pundit Class That Wants Him Gone
On Wednesday evening, I opened up the New York Times homepage—something I do with fevered regularity these days as Gaza coverage slips further and further down the pecking order—and began to scroll…
Hasnain says:
“I’m not naive. I know that the American people care far more about Biden’s age and debate performance than they do about his Middle East policy. I know that, if Biden is convinced to step aside, it will be because of his inability to string two sentences together in public, and not because of his nearly ten months of unconditional support for Israel’s live-streamed annihilation of Gaza. In a more moral world, the utter disregard for Palestinian life that this president has displayed since October 7 would make the idea of him seeking a second term in office laughable. The debate among pundits and voters would not be whether he has the constitution to steward the country for another four years, but whether a sitting American president should be remanded to The Hague before or after he is impeached.
We live in a world where Palestinian lives are so cheap that American journalists will watch a limbless child die screaming on the filthy floor of a bombed-out hospital, and then talk about Joe Biden’s impressive foreign policy record.”
Posted on 2024-07-20T15:10:29+0000