In a recentappearanceat the Hampton Institute, Hillary Clintonstatedthat Benjamin Netanyahu's "first and foremost" offense is the damage he has done to Israel and its reputation.
"There should be no doubt in anyone's mind how seriously Netanyahu has damaged, first and foremost, Israel," Clinton said. "And second, the perception that people not just in the United States, but around the world, have of Israel, and that has to be repaired."
She hit that "first and foremost" part especially hard while speaking. Really leaned her ovaries into it.
This is liberal Zionism in a nutshell. The problem isn't Israel damaging Palestinian lives, the problem is Benjamin Netanyahu damaging Israel's public image. The problem isn't the genocide itself, the problem is that the genocide harms Israeli PR interests.
They don't care about human suffering. They don't care about human rights. All they care about is controlling the narrative.
We saw this illustrated a couple of years agoin a rantby then-secretary of state Antony Blinken complaining of the way videos of Israeli atrocities circulating online have "dominated the narrative" and are having "a very, very challenging effect on the narrative." The problem isn't what's happening, the problem is people's STORY about what's happening. All the genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid and abuse would be fine if the Zionists could control what narratives people were telling about it. Benjamin Netanyahu is disliked not because he's a genocidal monster, but because his genocidal monstrousness makes it hard to administer effective empire propaganda.
Amid the savagery of the Trump administration it's easy to forget that the lion's share of the killing in Gaza actually happened under Joe Biden. It's easy to forget Biden's lies about seeing pictures ofbeheaded babiesand hisfalse claimsthat the Gaza health ministry's death counts were untrustworthy. It's easy to forget the way State Department spokesman Matthew Miller always weaseled his way out of press gallery questions about the genocide with anobnoxious smirk on his face. It's easy to forget all the DNC attendees whocovered their earsas anti-genocide demonstrators listed names of Palestinian children who'd been butchered by Biden in Gaza.
They fully embraced Israel's genocide. They reveled in it.
And now, just in time for midterms, former senior Biden officials have beentelling the pressthat they regret not doing more to rein in Netanyahu's mass military slaughter.
This was always the plan. They always knew they could just give Israel whatever it wants and then go "Oopsie! We made a mistake!" to cover their legacy after their crime was committed. And now that's exactly what they're doing. They planned this while the bombs were being shipped out.
Source: Rense.com
