Joe Biden Wants Genocide in Gaza

Biden and the US are primary actors in a genocide that only they can stop, but choose not to

Young Saja, only four years old, survived an attack that killed hundreds in Gaza.

But her face did not.

The burns of the chemicals used in the bombs and bullets burned her face away. It would never the same.

The agent would distort and disfigure her face. Eating away her innocence and replacing it with a bloodied and burned visage.

This is Saja’s new face.

American-made weaponry did this.

Joe Biden’s desire to carry forward this genocide unmade Saja’s face, and the entire face of a land that will, also, never be the same.

165 days of uninterrupted genocide.

The days roll forward, as the Palestinian death toll in Gaza mounts, and mounts.

The unofficial number has surged past 40,000. While the number of starving and displaced bodies encompasses anybody still living on the Strip.

All of this could have ended months ago.

Much of the morbid images and massacred ongoing could have been prevented long ago.

However, the real time sieges on Al Shifa Hospital and ungodly attacks on Rafah continue.

Why?

One reason, and one individual alone.

Joe Biden.

President of the United States, and second commander-in-chief of a “war” that not only counts his nation as an aider or abetter. But a conspirator, a collaborator, and co-genocidal regime plotting and predating alongside Israel.

The labels matter.

Language is key for reasons tied to optics, but also tied to law. Namely, holding Biden and his Administration culpable of the genocidal acts that South Africa and other nations pin on Israel is why we must use these labels. Why these indictments must supplants terms that render Biden, and the United States , as secondary actors instead of leads. As Robins instead of Batman.

“Language is never neutral,” wrote Brazilian giant Paolo Freire. The words we choose are always political, and always intentional. Especially when it comes to genocide.

This pedagogy of the oppressor mandates us choose the right labels. To call it like it is.

Joe Biden wants a genocide in Gaza. That is his intent and aim. And as a result, Joe Biden is a principal culprit of this genocidal campaign that is approaching the half-year mark.

Israel, for purposes of the genocide in Gaza, cannot move ahead without America.

In civil (legal) terms, this genocide would be over but for Joe Biden. But for this American administration that, at every stop, chose to carry forward the mass extermination of Palestinians, their history, culture, and way of life.

To put it a different way, Biden could end this genocide, today, if he chose to. He is, next to Netanyahu, the only man in the world who can put an immediate stop to it all. Abruptly, instantly, and finally.

But he has actively chosen to do the very opposite.

UN ceasefire vote after ceasefire vetoed.

An ongoing financing, to the tune of tens of billions of dollars, of the Netanyahu genocide machine.

The continuous distribution of military weaponry, military strategy, and military men, to Netanayu.

The brazen rhetoric dismissing the scale of murder and the severity of ethnic cleansing, where Biden himself flippantly rejected the number of innocents killed and the applicability of the term genocide to the events unfolding in Gaza.

Perpetuating a famine, fully by design, intending to starve nearly 2 million Palestinians in Gaza into submission. During the Holy Month of Ramadan no less, where this year’s “fasting” is famine.

Finally, and perhaps most damningly, a final acknowledgement of the humanity of the Palestinian people only in relation to Biden’s presidential election interests, and as the American populace flocks toward and flanks alongside the people of Gaza, votes.

For Biden Palestinians never mattered. They only matter, if that word is to be used, in the form of votes.

But still, even in the face of his presidential fate tied to Gaza, Biden has not demanded a ceasefire or taken any active steps toward one. Rather, he has offered humanitarian crumbs of aid eclipsed by the limitless fueling and financing of the Israeli genocidal regime.

If Palestinians only matter in the form of votes and lost votes for Joe Biden, then it is an ethical imperative reduce him to a non-vote.

Not an “uncommitted” stance that may waiver in the face of Trump’s reemergence, or a protest vote against the red-hatted marauder.

But a No Vote that aims to punish a genocidal president, to punish Joe Biden, for assuming the role as a principal conductor of the utter destruction of Palestinian life in Gaza.

Some things are bigger than presidential elections.

With regard to Gaza and genocide, I can think of at least 40,000.

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Khaled A. Beydoun is a law professor and author. He publishes his daily insights on his social media platforms at @khaledbeydoun.