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To the editor:
For the third time since Jan. 20th, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, close allies and both authoritarians, met at the White House. One topic was the removal of Palestinians from a destroyed Gaza to a foreign country or countries (ethnic cleansing). A few weeks earlier, the U.N. Security Council voted 15 to 1 for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. The U.S. vetoed the resolution.
As Trump and Netanyahu met, the U.N. warned that Israel’s blockade of fuel had reached a “critical point,” with power running out for key services, including water desalination and intensive care units in hospitals. Israel’s defense minister also announced that the IDF would relocate 600,000 Palestinians to southern Gaza on the ruins of Rafah, where a supposedly “humanitarian city” would be built. In addition, an investigative story by The New York Times found Netanyahu had prolonged the Gaza war so he could remain in power.
Trump, a serial abuser of domestic and international law, gave Netanyahu a warm welcome. The prime minister faces an arrest warrant from the ICC for war crimes and crimes against humanity. Israel for years has tried to undermine the ICC, while the Trump administration imposed sanctions on it, as well as on the U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, whose office had issued a documented report, “From Economy of Occupation to Economy of Genocide” discussing “the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories.”
Finally, violence since Oct. 7, 2023 has increased in the West Bank. The U.N. reported that over 850 Palestinians have been killed, most by the IDF and some by extremist Jewish settlers. Trump revoked all sanctions against these extremists.
Trump and Netanyahu are a type of politician, as Hannah Arendt wrote, “for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false no longer exists.”
Howard Elterman
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Valete
Talk about lies!
Jake Tapper, one of the co-authors of “Original Sin,” the inside account of President Joe Biden’s decline, told Piers Morgan last month that the cover-up of Biden’s health was “maybe even worse than Watergate.”
On one of the rare occasions when the liberal media gently inquired about Biden’s health, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told CNN, “I can’t even keep up with him.”
This is from the same woman who told the country that videos of Biden falling and wandering off were “cheap fakes.”
(She lied. They all did.)
Trump.
Far from transparent, the White House allows a president to hide in plain sight.
( WHAT BIDEN AND HIS HANDLERS DID WAS WRONG. )
I don’t have subpoena power,” Tapper told The Times’ Stephen Battaglio, saying he would have eagerly published the details contained in his new book had sources been willing to come forth while Biden was still in power.
“We were just lied to over and over again.”
Source
Los Angeles Times
By Mark Z. Barabak
Columnist
May 21, 2025 3 AM PT
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