“The truth of our time."

Biden's attack on it just got dangerous.

Excellent question, brilliantly phrased. Columbia University, April 2024. (SWinxy, cc by SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons.)

A note to readers: We will publish Part 2 of Guy Mettan’s “Report from Donbas” very shortly.

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It is prima facie impossible, as all sensible people will know, to enable, support, and altogether approve of a lawless nation’s genocide of another population and then defend one’s enabling, supporting, and approving in the court of public opinion, in a court of international law, or in international fora such as the United Nations. There is no chance whatsoever of winning broad acceptance for such conduct. It simply cannot be done. Only foolish people would even attempt to seek the approval of others. Opprobrium is the only possible outcome.

But the Biden regime, if this is not already obvious, is comprised of foolish people. It would be best if the rest of the world accepts this as an American reality. And foolishness in combination with power—another American reality—is bound to produce disastrous results.

The Biden White House, its supporters on Capitol Hill, and its clerks in corporate media have tried since the events of 7 October to justify not only apartheid Israel’s murder spree against the Palestinians of Gaza but also U.S support of the Israelis’ daily barbarities. They succeeded only briefly, when, during the early days of Israel’s invasion, reflexive sympathy was evident and the extent of Israel’s savagery not yet clear. Of late Washington’s failure to justify these atrocities has grown too evident either to deny or obscure.

Over the past several weeks, I would say, this has produced yet another American reality. The foolish but powerful in America, as just described, have never hesitated to misrepresent the freakish inhumanity of Israel’s extreme-right regime, of late the grotesque events in Gaza, or, it may as well be noted, the imperium’s record altogether. But as opposition to Israel and Washington’s support of it now threatens to expand exponentially, to the point it resembles the antiwar movement of the 1960s, we witness—one more new reality—a full-dress attack on the truth.