In a new report, David D. Kirkpatrick writes about the Biden Administration’s handling of the war in Gaza—and the top officials who now express regret about it. “Virtually everyone involved thought that Israel was killing more Palestinians than was necessary to achieve any legitimate objective,” Kirkpatrick notes. “What surprised... me the most was the vast gulf between what the Biden Administration knew internally and what they said to the Israelis privately, and, on the other hand, what they said and did publicly.” Read his investigation:show more

“Jake Sullivan told me that inside the White House, they repeatedly presented options to Biden about withholding weapons from Israel in order to press its government to do more to protect Palestinian civilians.” The finger pointing stage has begun. It will escalate. But the only ones with clean hands were the noisy departures from the State Department, like Josh Paul, @AnnelleSheline and others. These top officials expressing “regret” now are merely reputation laundering.

Stop laundering their reputations for them. We all saw how they were willing facilitators of genocide with our own eyes. They belong in The Hague.

Joe Biden deserves to have the final days of his life filled with pain and terror, but this was obviously the exact result Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Amos Hochstein, Brett McGurk, and Jon Finer all wanted or else they would've resigned. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@MarkSeddon1962 Biden didn't “unwittingly” do anything. They all lied then. You are all lying now. You are all complicit in what happens now.

nobody is buying this shit wrap it up

@richardpbacon Genocide Joe and his minions are all complicit in allowing and funding this genocide. @ABlinken was the worst as he always had a smug smile when harping on about Hamas! NEVER LET THESE SCUMBAGS FORGET!’

Unless you're a fanatical racist, there's no number of dead Palestinians that is "necessary", and no "legitimate objective" that can justify it. And we know what Israel's objective was: destroying Gaza and committing ethnic cleansing. That's also why there is no "war in Gaza." It's a genocide.

If they were *truly* as gullible as you’re portraying them to be, they would be too stupid to remember to breathe

You’re doing PR work for the architects of the Palestinian genocide. Shame on you.

@ishaantharoor Fuck the New Yorker for white washing the crimes of the Biden administration. The Israeli Genocide in Gaza is much of an Israeli genocide as it is American. This was not a “mistake” or “failure”, it was their strategy and plan. Yes, fuck the New Yorker.

Around 2 decades ago people would brag about reading The New Yorker...I don't hear anyone doing that anymore. Stop trying to rehabilitate war criminals who violated our own human rights laws that ended in the slaughter of over 20,000 children.

Erm! Netanyahu says his central ethos was and remains: "Kill them first". Them meaning Amalek, he repeatedly said and says, and they must be erased of all traces of existence as such. American libs are playing around, desperately seeking solace in sophistry, 3 yrs into genocide.

They should all be caged until their tribunals

It's insulting to humanity to pretend the Biden admin was an 'unwitting' partner. We all saw Palestinian children being murdered. If the world knew it was genocide, why didn't the the Biden administration know they were funding a genocide? Don't let them rewrite history.

Oh fuck off with this shit. They knew they just didn’t care. They still don’t. But they’re realizing their base isn’t going to forget about this so here comes the ass-covering!

You are a weathercock, David D. Kirkpatrick. A sad, pathetic, lying one at that, probably an overpaid too.

The Biden Administration arrested over 3000 people just for saying the same thingd that this video does. Stupid war hawks

This is incredibly disingenuous. There was nothing legitimate about Israel's ongoing murder, torture, and theft before 10/7, and there was nothing legitimate about it after. The thefts, the assassination of children, the sadistic cruelty continue. Israel is not civilized.

Genocide Joe and his WestExecs gang hoped to cash in later

I'm less concerned about what words the Biden Administration was using and more concerned about their unwillingness to follow the law on arms transfer to apartheid states like Israel. "Regret" seems wholly inadequate for people that, in a sane country, would be put on trial

You're telling us the "you have to have different public-private positions" party lied and are using credulous journalists to launder their reputations after the fact?

Reputation laundering by sociopaths trying to avoid the judgement of history.

Here’s what conscientious decision making over these issues looked like—there’s no confusing it with what Blinken or Sullivan were engaged in.

This is disgusting apologia for abetting and funding genocide.

PR for Genocide? It's as heinous as Genocide, itself. We need what happened after the Holocaust in 1945.

I would like to see them express regret from a gallows holding cell in the Hague.

Pure BS. Biden administration wholeheartedly supported Zionist regime. They didn't give a f*ck about Palestinian lives. The so called pressure they were "relentlessly" trying to put on Netanyahu for him to stop the genocide, was disgusting and cynical theatre.

Reputation-laundering by NYer scumbag on behalf of the executive leadership group overseeing the liquidation of Gaza. The real authors of the genocide - the ones who made sure it happened - Biden, Blinken, Sullivan, McGurk - deserve what the German leadership got at Nuremberg

Biden's place is alongside Netanyahu, in The Hague, facing the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for their crime of genocide and their complicity in the crime of genocide.

The fact that these people did not resign when they were fully aware of what was going on in Gaza makes their proclamations now worthless. They were and continue to be complicit.

Deplorable framing. As if there could possibly be ANY justification for razing entire cities into toxic rubble while mass murdering as many people as possible.

This, not deciding to run again, is what Biden can never be forgiven for.