Utopia Talk / Politics / Joe Biden caught w/ anti-Semitic book

Rugian Member	Mon Dec 02 16:11:14 This guy is serious IDGAF mode. "Retiring President Biden hit the shops on Black Friday and surprised onlookers by picking up a copy of a book describing the establishment of Israel as “colonialism” that’s been met with Palestinian “resistance” — an acquisition its author bemoaned was “4 years too late.” Biden, 82, left Nantucket Bookworks holding in full view of the press a copy of “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017” by Columbia University professor emeritus Rashid Khalidi. The book argues that “the modern history of Palestine can best be understood in these terms: as a colonial war waged against the indigenous population, by a variety of parties, to force them to relinquish their homeland to another people against their will.” Khalidi, who is of Palestinian and Lebanese descent, refers to President-elect Donald Trump’s first administration as a “mouthpiece” for Israel and accuses Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of leading “the most extreme government” in his country’s history. The Arab Studies academic also slams what he describes as slanted press coverage in favor of Israel. “I do not speak to the Post (or the Times for that matter), so this is not for publication, but my reaction is that this is 4 years too late,” Khalidi told The Post, which did not offer or agree to any terms conditioning that response as off the record or on background. Khalidi’s book knocks Trump for enacting a range of policies such as moving the US embassy to Jerusalem and recognizing Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights from Syria. The work was published in early 2020 before Trump brokered diplomatic relationships between Israel and five Muslim countries. “Trump’s people abandoned even the shabby old pretense at impartiality. With this plan, the United States ceased to be ‘Israel’s lawyer,’ becoming instead the mouthpiece of the most extreme government in Israel’s history,” wrote Khalidi. The book prescribes “a path based on equality and justice” that ends “the oppression of one people by another.” It cites discriminatory Israeli policies against Palestinians, whom Khalidi notes are of both Muslim and Christian backgrounds. “Settler-colonial confrontations with indigenous peoples have only ended in one of three ways: with the elimination of full subjugation of the native population, as in North America; with the defeat and expulsion of the colonizer, as in Algeria, which is extremely rare; or with the abandonment of colonial supremacy, in the context of compromise and reconciliation, as in South Africa, Zimbabwe, and Ireland,” he writes. “If the elimination of the native population is not a likely outcome in Palestine, then what of dismantling the supremacy of the colonizer in order to make possible a true reconciliation? The advantage that Israel has enjoyed in continuing its project rests on the fact that the basically colonial nature of the encounter in Palestine has not been visible to most Americans and many Europeans.” Khalidi writes that the “popular resistance” among Palestinians “can be expected to continue to mount.” The author praises the First Intifada by Palestinians against Israel, which left more than 2,000 dead after nearly six years of riots and rock-throwing between 1987 and 1993, ending in the Oslo Accords that granted limited self-rule to occupied areas of the West Bank and Gaza. “The First Intifada was an outstanding example of popular resistance against oppression and can be considered as being the first unmitigated victory for the Palestinians in the long colonial war that began in 1917,” the book says. He has less positive words for the subsequent Second Intifada that’s better known for suicide bombings targeting Israeli civilians, which resulted in a notorious security fence segregating Palestinian enclaves, writing that “the Second Intifada constituted a major setback for the Palestinian national movement.” http://nyp...-4-years-too-late-says-author/
murder Member	Mon Dec 02 16:48:28 I'm going to put this on my list of things to get outraged over, but it will probably take a few lifetimes to get to.
Rugian Member	Mon Dec 02 16:55:20 I know, I know, you're too busy obsessing over Pete Hegseth's relationship with his mom.
murder Member	Mon Dec 02 16:58:36 Or his garbage treatment of women. But you guys don't care about things like that.
Rugian Member	Mon Dec 02 17:19:14 Oh my God, he was unfaithful in his marriage and he had an acrimonious divorce, during which he had a falling out with his mom. Call the police. I literally had to do your job for you and post a story that was *actually* damaging for him. That's how weaksauce your OP was.
obaminated Member	Mon Dec 02 18:14:43 Anyone who has affairs is clearly a monster, rugian.
obaminated Member	Mon Dec 02 18:15:05 Also, rugian, good body slam on murder.
murder Member	Mon Dec 02 18:59:39 "Oh my God, he was unfaithful in his marriage and he had an acrimonious divorce, during which he had a falling out with his mom. Call the police." And the other women that his mother said he had a history of abusing. And of course there's the woman he raped. The one we know about.
obaminated Member	Mon Dec 02 20:34:16 The woman he raped? Murder just making up stories from half read articles now. Lol.
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