Biden's Gaza Ceasefire Veto Defies American Public Opinion

by Riaz Haq

Feb 27, 2024

Aaron Bushnell, an active serviceman in the United States Air Force, burned himself to death in front of the Israeli Embassy in protest against the US policy in Gaza. Before setting himself on fire in what he called an "extreme act of protest", he said he would "no longer be complicit in genocide". Polls show that the vast majority (63%) of Americans want an immediate end to the carnage being perpetrated by Israel in Gaza.  

USAF Engineer Aaron Bushnell

Although Bushnell resorted to this extreme form of protest against the Biden Administration's policy of unqualified support for Israel, he was not alone in opposing it. American public opinion polls confirm that the vast majority of Americans, including Jewish Americans, want an immediate end to the Gaza carnage. 

Gaza Ceasefire Poll. Source: ISPU

Overall, 63% of Americans support a ceasefire in Gaza, according to a recent poll conducted by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU). In terms of religions, 71% of Catholics, 61% of Non-Affiliated,  60% of Protestants, 58% of White Evangelicals, 50% of Jews and 75% of Muslims support an immediate ceasefire, according to the poll. 

Jewish and Muslim Democrats, like Democrats in the general public, favor an end to the violence in Gaza. The majority of Republicans in the general public also favor a ceasefire. 

So why is President Biden defying the will of the American people on Gaza?  The simple answer is AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the most powerful lobby in Washington D.C. This Israel lobby has showered its friendly politicians with money from wealthy Jewish donors. It has also ensured the defeat of those politicians who dared to speak out against Israeli policies in the Middle East. As one former Democratic senator, Ernest Hollings, put it on leaving office, ‘you can’t have an Israeli policy other than what AIPAC gives you around here.’ Or as Ariel Sharon once told an American audience, ‘when people ask me how they can help Israel, I tell them: “Help AIPAC.”’

President Jimmy Carter who helped broker peace between Israel and Egypt knows the Israel lobby well. He told Amy Goodman of "Democracy Now" many years ago: "I think it’s accurate to say that not a single member of Congress with whom I’m familiar would possibly speak out and call for Israel to withdraw to their legal boundaries or to publicize the plight of the Palestinians or even to call publicly and repeatedly for good faith peace talks.....  And I would say that if any member of Congress did speak out, as I’ve just described, they would probably not be back in the Congress the next term ". 

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  • Riaz Haq

    Chris Menahan 🇺🇸
    @infolibnews
    Israeli-American Council to billionaire Haim Saban: How do you buy and exercise influence over politicians in the US?

    Saban: "I wanna be cautious…We just play within the system…Those who give more have more access, and those who give less have less access—it's simple math."

    https://x.com/infolibnews/status/2012732736193151356?s=20

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    Suppressed News.
    @SuppressedNws1
    🇺🇸🇮🇱They aren’t even trying to hide it!

    IAC to Zionist billionaire Miriam Adelson: How do you buy and exercise influence over politicians in the U.S?

    Adelson: "Can you allow me not to answer? ... I want to be truthful and there are so many things I don't want to talk about."

    Clip:
    @infolibnews

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    Ryan Rozbiani
    @RyanRozbiani
    Billionaires at the Israeli-American Council talk about how they Buy U.S. Politicians and Influence Them to help Israel

    Billionaire Miriam Adelson
    - $5 Million to AIPAC (2024)
    - $100 Million to Trump via Preserve America PAC (2024)
    - $4.9 Million to Friends of the IDF (2021)

    Billionaire Haim Saban
    - $1 Million to AIPAC via United Democracy Project (2023)
    - $10 Million to Friends of the IDF (2021)
    - $30 Million raised for Friends of the IDF

    https://x.com/RyanRozbiani/status/2012749837775626339?s=20

    Jan 18

  • Riaz Haq

    Drop Site
    @DropSiteNews
    ⭕️ Top Democrats conducting a still-secret 2024 election autopsy concluded Kamala Harris lost meaningful support over the Biden administration’s handling of Gaza, Axios reports.

    In a closed-door meeting, DNC officials told the pro-Palestinian IMEU Policy Project their data showed the policy was a “net-negative,” especially with young and progressive voters. The DNC has refused to release the report, denying it is hiding Israel-related findings. Harris has since said the administration should have publicly criticized some of Netanyahu’s actions more forcefully.

    By the final days of the Biden administration, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported roughly 47,000 Palestinians confirmed killed by Israeli forces in Gaza since October 7 in a war heavily backed and armed by the United States.

    https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2025729828897308881?s=20

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    Axios
    @axios
    Scoop: DNC officials working on secret report found Gaza stance cost Harris votes

    https://x.com/axios/status/2025699910633316512?s=20

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    Scoop: Dems working on secret report found Gaza cost Harris votes

    https://www.axios.com/2026/02/22/dnc-2024-autopsy-harris-gaza?utm_s...

    Top Democratic officials who worked on the party's still-secret autopsy of the 2024 election concluded that Kamala Harris lost significant support because of the Biden administration's approach to the war in Gaza, Axios has learned.

    Why it matters: The Democratic National Committee's research on what went wrong in 2024 has been under lock and key since party leaders decided last year to hide it from the public — a reflection of how explosively it could resonate within the party and be

    Feb 23

  • Riaz Haq

    In her memoir, View from the East Wing, former First Lady Jill Biden revealed that she regularly left Post-It notes on the bathroom mirror urging former President Joe Biden to stand firm against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. [1, 2, 3, 4]
    Following news coverage of the devastating conflict in Gaza, one of her notes simply read, "Net has to stop". The following morning, before a scheduled phone call between the two leaders, she left another message stating, "Be strong. Don't let BN use your goodness". [1, 2, 3]
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    Yes, former First Lady Jill Biden reveals in her memoir, "View from the East Wing", that she used sticky notes on their mirrors to privately urge Joe Biden to push back against the Israeli Prime Minister. [1]
    The Post-It Note Messages
    Dr. Biden details her inner turmoil while watching the devastating news from Gaza in the spring of 2024. She used Post-It notes to communicate her geopolitical advice to the President, leaving the messages on their bathroom mirror: [1, 2]
    In one instance, after seeing news out of Gaza, she left a note that read: "Net has to stop".
    Before a scheduled discussion with the Israeli leader, she scrawled a follow-up note reading: "Be strong. Don't let BN use your goodness". [1, 2, 3, 4]

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/jill-biden-memoir-prov...

    "Be strong," she wrote in a note to Joe in spring 2024 in advance of a meeting with the Israeli prime minister. "Don't let BN [Benjamin Netanyahu] use your goodness."

    Jun 7