Genocide Joe and Holocaust Harris

Genocide Joe Biden, and his Vice President, Holocaust Harris, are doing a bad cop worse cop act, in their PR stunts, in relation to their support for the Zionist final solution being committed against Palestinians. For nearly six months, now, Biden and Harris, along with all of their spokespeople, like Kirby, Blinken and co., have stood soldier to soldier with the Zionist regime, as it slaughtered Palestinians, men, women, children and babies, blowing their body parts asunder, with the 2000 pound bombs that the US supplied. Of course, they have not been alone, as the European subordinates of US imperialism, in the UK and EU, have done likewise, whilst, sections of the social-imperialist left have acted as merely a feint echo of a conscience to the supposed social-democratic parties that have also, simply formed a chorus to the refrain coming from The Whitehouse. They have all, taking their lead from Biden, simply repeated ad nauseum the most blatant lies and fabrications put out by the Zionist regime, as though it were gospel truth, and have repeated them, even after those lies have been comprehensively and publicly debunked. The bourgeois media has done the same.

As Owen Jones has previously noted, the supporters of Genocide Joe have complained that young people have been more affected by all of the vast array of available video online – some of it provided by Zionist soldiers themselves, glorying in their atrocities – which witnesses the genocide being inflicted on Gaza, than they have by the media claims about Biden having harsh words over the phone with Nazi Netanyahu. Well, quelle surprise! Of course, Biden and his carers are a bit slow on the uptake, having grown used to being able to pump out any old rubbish, and have it accepted by the public, just as the Zionist regime has been used to doing and saying what it wants, without challenge, because the western media backs it, in the same way it backs the actions of western imperialism, and acts as its propaganda arm.

But, there are limits to that, as Biden et al have discovered. The Zionist propaganda was never believable, precisely because it was so far removed from the truth, much like the propaganda in any other totalitarian regime, where there is no freedom of the press. In Israel, Ha'aretz, within its own bourgeois limits, does challenge the Zionist propaganda put out by the state, and its views are often cited by people outside Israel, but the overwhelming power of the Zionist state, inside Israel, is such, especially given the fact that, increasingly, Israel has attracted Zionist fanatics from the US, and elsewhere, to become settlers, changing its own demographic structure, and particularly in conditions of what the Zionist state presents as “war”, those oppositional voices, inside Israel, are easily marginalised, whilst still provoking hostility from the Zionists, which tries to shut them up, much as the state has tried to do in Germany, and other parts of the EU, as well as in the US, and now with the attempts of the Starnakists in Britain, to close down debate and protest.

In the US, the problem for Genocide Joe and Holocaust Harris is that this is a Presidential election year, and a senile Biden was already massively unpopular amongst US voters, including Democrat and Independent voters, let alone Republicans and Trumpists. Indeed, the one thing that has saved Biden and the Democrats from even greater humiliation, is the fact that they are up against Trump. For US voters, 70% of them want neither Trump nor Biden as their President, but currently, given a choice between the two, many seem to be choosing Trump as the less smelly piece of shit. Given that Trump is an even bigger supporter of the Zionists and their final solution against Palestinians that makes it a difficult choice for Democrats. Nevertheless, a significant number of them, by no means just Muslim Democrats, have chosen not to support Biden, voting in primaries for “None of The Above”. In fact, Biden seems to have pulled off the difficult task of making Trump look the lesser-evil, and of opening the door to his return to the Whitehouse, and the Democrat Party, if such it can be called, has enabled him to do it! Its a bit like what happened in Rochdale, but on a much more vast scale. Its the inevitable consequence of the politics of lesser-evilism. There is always a greater evil, and the dynamic drives towards it.

As voters saw the reality of the final solution being inflicted on the Palestinians, Biden's parroting of Zionist lies simply was not cutting it any more. That was significant, not just in the US, but for US imperialism, globally. Even the global institutions of imperialism, such as the UN, and its institutions like the ICJ, WHO, UNWRA and so on, were, now, no longer reliable vehicles. Instead, the US found itself in the same position that other rogue states have been placed in the past, as overtly ignoring the findings and rulings of these global bourgeois-democratic institutions. That, in itself, blows apart all of those claims about the rule of law, and international rules based system and so on, that acted as a cover for US imperialism over the last 80 years. Even when, US imperialism has set down what the rules of that system are, it can no longer, even abide by them itself!  Of course, whenever the ruling class faces that problem, it always has the option of simply sweeping that façade of democracy aside, as the Starnakists are proposing in Britain, now.

But, that tends to be a last resort. Once the camouflage of bourgeois-democracy is thrown off, via a coup by the ruling class, it is not so easily acquired once more, the iron hand behind the velvet glove is exposed. So, as popular opposition to the holocaust, and the complicity in it of western imperialism, grows, the imperialist politicians have had to try to assuage it, not with any real measures to end it, but with PR stunts, to present another façade of humanitarianism. Holocaust Harris came out to say publicly that there had to be an immediate ceasefire, but that was quickly walked back by Genocide Joe, and his staffers, who continued the narrative of only a humanitarian pause, and only to get out the remaining hostages, after which the Zionist, industrialised killing machine, armed by the US, would be able to resume its butchery.

Then, they talked about the need for aid, whilst continuing to supply the Zionist juggernaut with massive amounts of weapons to continue its killing spree, and whilst it continues to deny passage of existing aid into Gaza! The idea that they could just say to the Zionists, let in the existing aid trucks, or all weapons to you stop, was never an option. On the contrary, as the Houthis and others have implemented the ICJ ruling for all countries to act to end the genocide, by seeking to stop shipments to Israel via the Red Sea, the US and UK have, instead, sought to ensure the continuation of those shipments to the Zionists, and have launched their own military strikes against the Houthis.

The action of Genocide Joe to drop aid into Gaza by plane was clearly a publicity stunt ahead of his State of The Union Address. The amount dropped amounted to only the equivalent of one truck load, some of it landed in the sea, causing danger to starving Palestinians who went into the sea after it, whilst another load, literally dropped on the heads of some Palestinians, killing several of them, and seriously injuring others. Now, Biden has proposed building a temporary dock on the Gazan coast to take in aid shipments across the Mediterranean, from Cyprus. It is another PR stunt, designed simply to waste time, to give the the Zionist murder machine time to complete its grisly work.

Even the US says it will take more than two months to build, whilst Palestinian children are dying from famine, and disease, now. But, even if it were built, the shipments have to get from the coast into the rest of Gaza. The problem with that is that the Zionist military controls that coast, and the rest of the territory. They will simply block the transit of that aid into Gaza, in the same way they have blocked aid going into Gaza, via the existing crossings, whilst Zionist fanatics, have set up camps on those crossings, complete with bouncy castles, to while away their time, and turn genocide into an amusement park, as they block any transit of aid into Gaza, looking forward to the day, as they have tweeted, when cannibalism comes to the Palestinians trapped inside.

The ludicrous nature of Biden's proposal, as simply a PR stunt, for the benefit of his election campaign, has even been noted by the likes of David Cameron, himself, now, perhaps, looking to the problem of facing criminal proceedings at the ICC, in the Hague, for complicity in war crimes and genocide, resulting from Britain's support for the Zionists slaughter of innocents. But, Cameron is impotent, in the face of US imperialism, to force the opening of existing crossings, and if Britain's puny contribution was removed to supporting the holocaust in Gaza, it would make little difference, as the US continues to flood the Zionist regime with all the weapons it needs.

Workers should learn from this. None of these imperialists, not those of so called “democratic-imperialism”, represented by the US/EU/NATO, nor the imperialists in the opposing camp of China/Russia/BRICS are our friends or allies, and nor are the bourgeois nationalists of the various smaller states and movements aligned with them. In all cases, as Lenin and others stated in 1914, our main enemy is at home, it is our own ruling class. We cannot rely on that ruling class, at home or internationally, to act in our interests. It will not do so, other than incidentally, in pursuing its own interests. It is up to workers, via our own organisations, and via our own efforts, our own self-activity, and self-government to look after ourselves, to pursue our own class interest in direct opposition to those of the bourgeoisie. The sooner we do that, that we also build our own independent, revolutionary workers' party to codify and fight consciously for those interests, the sooner these global problems can be resolved, in the only truly progressive way possible, the overthrow of capitalism/imperialism, and the creation of a global socialist society, based upon the cooperative commonwealth.