This article really bothers me. I am an Antony Blinkin fan and am questioning how true this articles statements are. If they are true why are we not seeing more about this from Senate Republicans. Something this negative about the present administration is usually jumped on with enthusiasm. I usually respect the ProPublica tag but have my doubts now?????
Mr. Blinken is a war criminal and should be impeached, should resign and never permitted to hold office again; he has violated the public trust, a fragile trust and if he has a grain of decency left in him, Blinken should step aside. Blinken would demand that others be held accountable to the international laws, our national laws, so why give him a pass??? There is no point to having laws on the books if only certain segments of the population is expected to follow them. What is really sshocking here is how Mr. Blinken manages to lie with a straight face while withholding vital information from government officials. He appears determined to guard, defend, protect a foreign government withour concern for their indiscriminate murder of civilians, the destruction of the property, theft of land, and the failure to follow the rule of law . Who is he really working for, US or Israel?
To think the democrats aren’t war criminals is hilarious. Here some of Biden from the past. He was one of the key people that helped the US government sell the weapons of mass destruction lie that killed over 1 MILLION Iraqi citizens. He now has the blood of 400,000 Palestinians and however many Russians and Ukrainians on his hands. The truth is there if you get passed the constant propaganda. You can’t believe one thing that THE NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, CNN, MSNBC, FOX NEWS, and every either mainstream media outlet says. They report what the powers that be tell them to. The media that lies about what’s going on in the Middle East is also complicit in these war crimes and is something they can and should be charged with.
He most certainly committed war crimes, along with every single person in Biden’s cabinet, along with Biden and Harris. So did all of the mainstream media that hides the truth. All of them should be held accountable. Making money in war is more important than human lives. They are all monsters, that are the most evil psychopaths in the world. Hang them all.
Thank you, Qasim, for this assessment. The facts about the availability and hindered delivery of aid have not been respected by Blinken's Dept of State. This is willful and constitutes illegal choice and action.
That this bad-faith handling of information that is vitally important for the people of Gaza and for the legal conduct of responsibilities by the Dept of State. Blinken shares responsibility for the loss of lives of innocents.
Ask most US military veteran officers to compare what they saw in Iran or Afghanistan, let alone Viet Nam, to the American mainstream news accounts filtered. Even these had outside international journalists allowed some coverage. The film "The Control Room" is good at showing how military channels filter news. Israel has a press lockdown. There was an official act from the Israeli Parliament, the Al Jazeera Act, that locked out all international journalists. Most of what Congress sees us also vetted by the Israeli government. The Society to Protect Journalists, among others, keeps track of journalists killed.
Gaza has one of the highest literacy rates in the world, partly because of the UN schools, now used for shelters and bombed anyway. The reporting from inside Gaza is because of Gazans telling their own stories.
I have to admit that I have wondered the same, not necessarily on Biden but given the vulnerable sppot that his only surviving son is in, is there something that they might add to the pot to make his situation worse. Just guessing, but given the history of snooping, spying and gathering intel on friends and foes, it is something to think about.
Just who knew what when, and why it was dismissed and buried, is an interesting question. Former State Department official Josh Paul, who was directly involved in the Administration's arms transfers, contributed to this report to Congress.
This is extremely important and I hope Biden and Blinken face accountability for this lie. Thanks for reporting on this topic!
When we first learned that the NSM-20 report was intentionally dishonest, I tried many times to amplify the news. I kept posting note after note about it trying to spread awareness;
"The White House ordered the State Department to create the National Security Memorandum/NSM-20 to assess Israel’s compliance with international law. The report found that Israel’s bombing campaign has violated international law but that Israel is not blocking humanitarian aid. So every single American should watch this clip of a former State Department official with 20 years of experience who just resigned over the NSM-20.
In this clip we learn that State Department subject matter experts, USAID, and on the ground US-aligned human rights organizations all agreed that Israel IS blocking aid. But after all subject matter experts created a report confirming that Israel is blocking aid, that report got sent to higher ups for editing and review before release...The higher ups which could've been Biden, Blinken, or maybe 1 or 2 other people changed the findings of the subject matter experts to instead say Israel is not blocking aid."
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All of this is important because the apartheid state of Israel could not carry out their war crimes and crimes against humanity without unwavering support of the United Sassist and if Biden/Blinken had told the truth about Israel blocking humanitarian assistance in the NSM-20 it would have triggered the Foreign Assistance Act;
"The Foreign Assistance Act makes clear; no US assistance may be provided to any country that “prohibits or otherwise restricts, directly or indirectly, the transport or delivery of United States humanitarian aid.”
-Bernie Sanders
So the Biden administration lied on purpose to facilitate Israel's war crimes and we now have proof of it!
I wrote to President Biden on my objections to sending lethal weaponry and monetary aid to the fascist regime(I did NOT call the Israeli government that, for I know better..) known as Israel. My letters were rejected, I believe, by some monitor overseeing the texts that US Citizens send to any given administration. This is inherently wrong to put a block on what the American populace sees as INJUSTICE.
The US congress gave the executive branch a clear choice: if you do not support Netanyahu without reservation, there will be no additional aid for Ukraine.
Without Israel lobbyists and pacs purchasing and kidnapping the congress on this issue, Biden would have walked into a second term.
Blinken can honestly say he carried out the will of Congress and the Executive branch.
Israel is not and never was a friend to the United States.
Biden and his whole cabinet are Zionists. This was planned, from allowing Hamas to kidnap, to the IDF mowing down everyone in their sight and saying Hamas did it, to making up lies of rape and beheaded babies. IT’S A FARCE AND THEY DIDN’T EVEN TRY TO HIDE IT. To think that congress, Biden and his whole cabinet aren’t in collusion is laughable. Did you see how they worshiped Netanyahu feet? The military industrial complex is making a killing, and some of that money makes it to all the politicians who do what they are told. It’s a lot more than AIPAC’s cookie jar that’s open.
Both the US and Israel have locked arms in promoting genocide! Notice the repeated use of the term “self defense”… I am speaking of our current administration here.
I read your texts with great interest and am always impressed by your words and arguments. That said, there is a typo in the penultimate para: the word enforce.
While the arguments are persuasively backed by evidence even as war with rules can be seen to be prone to violations as it is war, this is way more complicated than we the public can really know with any certainty and more evidence will pour in.
For example, I saw a CBS report, now that I have some tv. They showed rubble of a former town in Gaza that was horrifying. Then the woman reporter said that her interviews showed that Hamas had booby trapped the buildings to blow up. Here I was thinking how horrible Israeli military was and it was hamas blowing up their own people they are tasked to protect. Hmm. Of course, we think we would work to reform our enemies but then I think- can Trump be reformed? Or even trusted? We know the answer. And I hope for jail.
Hamas has won their intended outcome- getting the US to question ties to Israel while getting people to judge and hate people of Jewish descent as much as Hamas does. Governments and people are different entities too. All this hate needs healed. While healing starts with action based on truth and we should definitely look at and modify what we fund to Israel, given the evidence, (even as we fund Ukraine, with its more visible more vanilla villain based on that evidence and potential for escalation beyond Ukraine), throwing our Secretary of State under the bus, especially now, does not seem a right answer. Lots of liars out there but that is not usual blinken conduct or Biden administration conduct. Let’s impeach those who lied to get on the Supreme Court before we go after our Secretary of State who must weigh massive concerns and evidence all around the world at once.
Point taken. How can you reason a vote for the democrats or republicans? The democrats committed these atrocities to the Palestinians, and now in Lebanon, always in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Venezuela, Ukraine, and the list goes on and on?
Because I vote on a multitude of issues beyond foreign policy, I follow my conscious by voting for the party that best represents what is important to me and that is not likely to ever be Republican since I am an environmentalist and I have a woman’s body worth protecting even as I am post menopausal. Also I am a real Christian who follows the example of the master Christian so I don’t vote for blatant liars or fascist pigs. And really- dah even if the democrats are wholly imperfect. No one gets everything right at any given moment.
You keep attacking people you disagree with with. You can even vehemently disagree all you want but I want to create dialogue, not dehumanization. I’m asking you to stop dehumanizing attacks on other commentators.
I don’t know how you keep your cool. I guess as lawyers we are use to being demonized by those we enforce the law against. I might disagree with your interpretation of evidence on occasion (can’t think of an instance right now) but how could that mean you are somehow substandard and how could name calling you be an appropriate response? I think we all vary in emotional intelligence and in our tunnel vision in issues important to us- like saving democracy or innocent civilians. I think you are a distinguished advocate doing an excellent job of informing people at a high level and I’m grateful you can take a punch, even below the belt.
Sorry, I meant to direct a question to you and I directed it at someone else. I meant that I was asking the question to you in good faith. Sorry about the confusion, it was my fault.
What CBS report? Netanyahu has banned all western journalists and media from Gaza. He's even shut down Al Jazeera in Gaza AND the West Bank. He's additionally killed more than 100 journalists in Gaza. What verified report are you referring to?
I remember your reporting on the mass murder of journalists now that you say that. Horrific stuff. I believe my husband switched over from CNN on Sunday having seen the earlier version of fareed and a short lighter haired middle aged woman was in the rubble of newly bombed buildings. She said she interviewed a bunch of people who lived there and they said the buildings were booby trapped by Hamas. She also showed tunnels under or near the rubble and they were huge enough to drive semi trucks through. She could have been from nbc but I think it was CBS. It seemed shocking and then no one else seemed to cover it. she was several minutes into her report before she revealed the Hamas connection to the rubble too as I assumed it was military bombings. She had a bit of an accent. Thanks for following up. I find all of this war and the death of so many innocent people so unnerving as do so many of us.
You need to watch something besides western mainstream media. It’s all been co-opted by Israel. Watch the documentary: The Occupation of the American Mind. This has been going on for decades!
This article really bothers me. I am an Antony Blinkin fan and am questioning how true this articles statements are. If they are true why are we not seeing more about this from Senate Republicans. Something this negative about the present administration is usually jumped on with enthusiasm. I usually respect the ProPublica tag but have my doubts now?????
Mr. Blinken is a war criminal and should be impeached, should resign and never permitted to hold office again; he has violated the public trust, a fragile trust and if he has a grain of decency left in him, Blinken should step aside. Blinken would demand that others be held accountable to the international laws, our national laws, so why give him a pass??? There is no point to having laws on the books if only certain segments of the population is expected to follow them. What is really sshocking here is how Mr. Blinken manages to lie with a straight face while withholding vital information from government officials. He appears determined to guard, defend, protect a foreign government withour concern for their indiscriminate murder of civilians, the destruction of the property, theft of land, and the failure to follow the rule of law . Who is he really working for, US or Israel?
Is the Pope Catholic?
Yes.
To think the democrats aren’t war criminals is hilarious. Here some of Biden from the past. He was one of the key people that helped the US government sell the weapons of mass destruction lie that killed over 1 MILLION Iraqi citizens. He now has the blood of 400,000 Palestinians and however many Russians and Ukrainians on his hands. The truth is there if you get passed the constant propaganda. You can’t believe one thing that THE NEW YORK TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, CNN, MSNBC, FOX NEWS, and every either mainstream media outlet says. They report what the powers that be tell them to. The media that lies about what’s going on in the Middle East is also complicit in these war crimes and is something they can and should be charged with.
https://youtu.be/FYLNCcLfIkM?si=Gu0TeSM94NnWqEvJ
https://youtu.be/GiBnb-yJ2jA?
si=5qbIbREPkxyOM11w
Sorry the link with Biden and weapons of mass destruction didn’t show his statements. This does
https://youtu.be/SemNT372CIw?si=TGhh1bwlP6b9zH24
He most certainly committed war crimes, along with every single person in Biden’s cabinet, along with Biden and Harris. So did all of the mainstream media that hides the truth. All of them should be held accountable. Making money in war is more important than human lives. They are all monsters, that are the most evil psychopaths in the world. Hang them all.
Thank you, Qasim, for this assessment. The facts about the availability and hindered delivery of aid have not been respected by Blinken's Dept of State. This is willful and constitutes illegal choice and action.
That this bad-faith handling of information that is vitally important for the people of Gaza and for the legal conduct of responsibilities by the Dept of State. Blinken shares responsibility for the loss of lives of innocents.
Ask most US military veteran officers to compare what they saw in Iran or Afghanistan, let alone Viet Nam, to the American mainstream news accounts filtered. Even these had outside international journalists allowed some coverage. The film "The Control Room" is good at showing how military channels filter news. Israel has a press lockdown. There was an official act from the Israeli Parliament, the Al Jazeera Act, that locked out all international journalists. Most of what Congress sees us also vetted by the Israeli government. The Society to Protect Journalists, among others, keeps track of journalists killed.
Gaza has one of the highest literacy rates in the world, partly because of the UN schools, now used for shelters and bombed anyway. The reporting from inside Gaza is because of Gazans telling their own stories.
Iraq
My question, especially after seeing Pres. Biden on The View this morning, is what background dirty laundry does Netanyahu have on Biden?
I have to admit that I have wondered the same, not necessarily on Biden but given the vulnerable sppot that his only surviving son is in, is there something that they might add to the pot to make his situation worse. Just guessing, but given the history of snooping, spying and gathering intel on friends and foes, it is something to think about.
There is the practical research major campaigns do to find vulnerabilities of opponents. Where is the line of extortion?
Biden is a colonial Zionist. Netanyahu does what the US oligarchy says to do, just like Biden. To think the Netanyahu is running the show is naive.
Just who knew what when, and why it was dismissed and buried, is an interesting question. Former State Department official Josh Paul, who was directly involved in the Administration's arms transfers, contributed to this report to Congress.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kNtLoJvCbfwVHecmkYefLj90TZkJQJ17/view
This is extremely important and I hope Biden and Blinken face accountability for this lie. Thanks for reporting on this topic!
When we first learned that the NSM-20 report was intentionally dishonest, I tried many times to amplify the news. I kept posting note after note about it trying to spread awareness;
https://substack.com/@philosophicalrebellion/note/c-57815565?r=211fuw
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https://substack.com/@philosophicalrebellion/note/c-62007152?r=211fuw
I also wrote in my paper The Path to Peace;
https://philosophicalrebellion.substack.com/p/the-path-to-peace
"The White House ordered the State Department to create the National Security Memorandum/NSM-20 to assess Israel’s compliance with international law. The report found that Israel’s bombing campaign has violated international law but that Israel is not blocking humanitarian aid. So every single American should watch this clip of a former State Department official with 20 years of experience who just resigned over the NSM-20.
https://youtu.be/V48vIcHTvbQ?si=LUCkVyoaxcj-EsS8
In this clip we learn that State Department subject matter experts, USAID, and on the ground US-aligned human rights organizations all agreed that Israel IS blocking aid. But after all subject matter experts created a report confirming that Israel is blocking aid, that report got sent to higher ups for editing and review before release...The higher ups which could've been Biden, Blinken, or maybe 1 or 2 other people changed the findings of the subject matter experts to instead say Israel is not blocking aid."
.
.
.
All of this is important because the apartheid state of Israel could not carry out their war crimes and crimes against humanity without unwavering support of the United Sassist and if Biden/Blinken had told the truth about Israel blocking humanitarian assistance in the NSM-20 it would have triggered the Foreign Assistance Act;
"The Foreign Assistance Act makes clear; no US assistance may be provided to any country that “prohibits or otherwise restricts, directly or indirectly, the transport or delivery of United States humanitarian aid.”
-Bernie Sanders
So the Biden administration lied on purpose to facilitate Israel's war crimes and we now have proof of it!
Every single word that this administration speaks are outright lies.
I wrote to President Biden on my objections to sending lethal weaponry and monetary aid to the fascist regime(I did NOT call the Israeli government that, for I know better..) known as Israel. My letters were rejected, I believe, by some monitor overseeing the texts that US Citizens send to any given administration. This is inherently wrong to put a block on what the American populace sees as INJUSTICE.
Thank you, Mr. Rashid! Allah Akbar to you and your family!
The US congress gave the executive branch a clear choice: if you do not support Netanyahu without reservation, there will be no additional aid for Ukraine.
Without Israel lobbyists and pacs purchasing and kidnapping the congress on this issue, Biden would have walked into a second term.
Blinken can honestly say he carried out the will of Congress and the Executive branch.
Israel is not and never was a friend to the United States.
Biden and his whole cabinet are Zionists. This was planned, from allowing Hamas to kidnap, to the IDF mowing down everyone in their sight and saying Hamas did it, to making up lies of rape and beheaded babies. IT’S A FARCE AND THEY DIDN’T EVEN TRY TO HIDE IT. To think that congress, Biden and his whole cabinet aren’t in collusion is laughable. Did you see how they worshiped Netanyahu feet? The military industrial complex is making a killing, and some of that money makes it to all the politicians who do what they are told. It’s a lot more than AIPAC’s cookie jar that’s open.
Both the US and Israel have locked arms in promoting genocide! Notice the repeated use of the term “self defense”… I am speaking of our current administration here.
Qasim, who has the authority to prosecute Blinken? Is that something that the Attorney General could do?
Yes. Ideally Biden would hold him accountable and then he'd be indicted and charged for lying to Congress.
Biden is a war criminal too. He won’t prosecute someone for doing their masters bidding.
I read your texts with great interest and am always impressed by your words and arguments. That said, there is a typo in the penultimate para: the word enforce.
While the arguments are persuasively backed by evidence even as war with rules can be seen to be prone to violations as it is war, this is way more complicated than we the public can really know with any certainty and more evidence will pour in.
For example, I saw a CBS report, now that I have some tv. They showed rubble of a former town in Gaza that was horrifying. Then the woman reporter said that her interviews showed that Hamas had booby trapped the buildings to blow up. Here I was thinking how horrible Israeli military was and it was hamas blowing up their own people they are tasked to protect. Hmm. Of course, we think we would work to reform our enemies but then I think- can Trump be reformed? Or even trusted? We know the answer. And I hope for jail.
Hamas has won their intended outcome- getting the US to question ties to Israel while getting people to judge and hate people of Jewish descent as much as Hamas does. Governments and people are different entities too. All this hate needs healed. While healing starts with action based on truth and we should definitely look at and modify what we fund to Israel, given the evidence, (even as we fund Ukraine, with its more visible more vanilla villain based on that evidence and potential for escalation beyond Ukraine), throwing our Secretary of State under the bus, especially now, does not seem a right answer. Lots of liars out there but that is not usual blinken conduct or Biden administration conduct. Let’s impeach those who lied to get on the Supreme Court before we go after our Secretary of State who must weigh massive concerns and evidence all around the world at once.
Point taken. How can you reason a vote for the democrats or republicans? The democrats committed these atrocities to the Palestinians, and now in Lebanon, always in Iran, Iraq, Syria, Venezuela, Ukraine, and the list goes on and on?
Because I vote on a multitude of issues beyond foreign policy, I follow my conscious by voting for the party that best represents what is important to me and that is not likely to ever be Republican since I am an environmentalist and I have a woman’s body worth protecting even as I am post menopausal. Also I am a real Christian who follows the example of the master Christian so I don’t vote for blatant liars or fascist pigs. And really- dah even if the democrats are wholly imperfect. No one gets everything right at any given moment.
This is the biggest load of shit I’ve ever heard. You should be ashamed of yourself. You are a POS!!
You keep attacking people you disagree with with. You can even vehemently disagree all you want but I want to create dialogue, not dehumanization. I’m asking you to stop dehumanizing attacks on other commentators.
I don’t know how you keep your cool. I guess as lawyers we are use to being demonized by those we enforce the law against. I might disagree with your interpretation of evidence on occasion (can’t think of an instance right now) but how could that mean you are somehow substandard and how could name calling you be an appropriate response? I think we all vary in emotional intelligence and in our tunnel vision in issues important to us- like saving democracy or innocent civilians. I think you are a distinguished advocate doing an excellent job of informing people at a high level and I’m grateful you can take a punch, even below the belt.
I’m asking in good faith, I want to hear your thoughts.
Calling someone "a POS" is not good faith.
Sorry, I meant to direct a question to you and I directed it at someone else. I meant that I was asking the question to you in good faith. Sorry about the confusion, it was my fault.
What CBS report? Netanyahu has banned all western journalists and media from Gaza. He's even shut down Al Jazeera in Gaza AND the West Bank. He's additionally killed more than 100 journalists in Gaza. What verified report are you referring to?
Our mainstream media still lies constantly for him. Anything CBS says is something that will always have an Israeli bias.
Truth is just truth and the issues are pretty complicated. We should be pro people.
I remember your reporting on the mass murder of journalists now that you say that. Horrific stuff. I believe my husband switched over from CNN on Sunday having seen the earlier version of fareed and a short lighter haired middle aged woman was in the rubble of newly bombed buildings. She said she interviewed a bunch of people who lived there and they said the buildings were booby trapped by Hamas. She also showed tunnels under or near the rubble and they were huge enough to drive semi trucks through. She could have been from nbc but I think it was CBS. It seemed shocking and then no one else seemed to cover it. she was several minutes into her report before she revealed the Hamas connection to the rubble too as I assumed it was military bombings. She had a bit of an accent. Thanks for following up. I find all of this war and the death of so many innocent people so unnerving as do so many of us.
You need to watch something besides western mainstream media. It’s all been co-opted by Israel. Watch the documentary: The Occupation of the American Mind. This has been going on for decades!