Saturday, November 18

But it's here already! Only it's on Biden, not Trump.

 The DC media is so out of touch with our country today.  Maureen Dowd, citing David Axelrod as a mensch, is giving tone-deaf advice to President Biden and the Democratic party on the 2024 election:

No doubt the president is having a hard time wrapping his mind around the idea that the 77-year-old Mar-a-Lago Dracula has risen from his gilded coffin even though he’s albatrossed with legal woes and seems more deranged than ever, referring to Democrats with the fascist-favored term “vermin” and plotting a second-term revengefest. Trump’s campaign slogan should be, “There will be blood.”

A picture of Joe Biden in his ancestral hometown 
of Ballina, Co. Mayo, Republic of Ireland
was vandalized with red paint owing to the US support
of Palestinian deaths by Irish residents who do not
support Benjamin Netanyahu's policies.
(click for newstory here)

Biden is facing scrutiny for his reaction to the war in Gaza, where, according to UNRWA on Wednesday, November 15, more than 11,078 people - two-thirds women and children - have been killed since October 7.

(UNRWA noted that due to the collapse of the Ministry of Health services and communications in the North, casualty data had not been updated for the previous five days.)

Overall, around 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals have been killed in Israel, according to Israeli Authorities, the vast majority on October 7.

Also on Wednesday, the UN Security Council passed a resolution calling for the immediate release of all hostages held by Hamas and for urgent and extended humanitarian corridors throughout the enclave to save and protect civilian lives.

The United States, along with Russia and the UK, abstained from the vote that ultimately passed when 12 other council members voted in favor.

The same day the UN Security Council passed the resolution, politicians in Ireland debated a Social Democrats' motion for the Irish government to withdraw diplomatic status from the Israeli Ambassador to Ireland and push for the imposition of EU-wide economic sanctions on Israel.

During Wednesday's debate in the Dáil, Social Democrats TD Catherine Murphy said in part: "The US is one of Israel's strongest supporters, committed to funding and arming its defence, but this is going beyond defence.

"It was appalling to hear the US President, Mr. Biden, say he hopes for less intrusive action on a hospital. Hospitals should be beyond attack.

"Despite the US support, the US envoy, Mr. Antony Blinken, came back from his most recent visit empty-handed. What will be the consequences that will change Israel's behaviour?"

People Before Profit TD Richard Boyd Barrett further said in the debate: "Shame on the United States, shame on Britain, shame on the European Union and shame on this Government for continuing to give Israel impunity while it carries out a genocide and a massacre on the people of Gaza."

Independent TD Danny Healy-Rae said: "I condemn Biden because I believe he could stop it. One word from him and he could stop it. It is sad to think that so many lives are being lost."

The Social Democrats' motion was ultimately defeated.