By Muhammad Al-Ghazali
When the sun finally set on Joe Biden’s political career, he exited the stage like a wimp and the lapdog of the genocidal dracula currently ensconced in Tel-Aviv who played him like a violin.
Nature also played its part in humbling Biden. The icy temperatures gave him the cold shoulder as his final act as President – that of being a mere spectator at the inauguration of his inteprid successor had to be staged indoors.
In truth, the frosty conditions were well-deserved for his criminal complicity in the most heinous crime perpetrated on planet earth in this century, which is the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Nothing even comes close.
Sadly but not totally surprising, Trump even managed to steal the glory for the belated “peace accord” between Hamas and Isreal, and there was nothing Biden could do about it.
The peace deal was only the latest testimonial of his lengthy track record of criminal indecision which was also brutally exposed when he had to be virtually shoved out of the race by his own party after his embarrassing hallucination which mercifully proved to be his solitary presidential debate with Trump before he grudgingly quit the stage for Kamala Harris.
The delay, added to average performance on the domestic front, proved fatal for the Democrats in the end, particularly on foreign affairs. In his typical fashion, it was too little and too late, especially for thousands of Palestinian children blown to smithereens by the endless supply of bombs and munitions to Israel under his watch.
It also tells a lot about Biden’s character that like a thief, he had to issue state pardons to his close associates and relatives including his son who were facing criminal prosecution to save them from the long arm of the law and the possible wrath of Trump who used every single opportunity to lampoon his presidency as he sat like a ghost within earshot during the inauguration.
The pardons clearly suggest that Biden cares so much for his adult son but never the hapless children of Gaza who are being slaughtered in their cradles with impunity by Netanyahu’s Storm Troopers. The hint at one of the most enduring legacies of Nazism is on purpose because I can see no difference between the unfolding events in Gaza and the Holocaust.
The only irony is that the latest version is being perpetrated by the very victims of the wrath of the Bavarian Corporal Adolf Hitler when he terrorised Europe in the Secon World War.
I cringe each time the Western media refer to the carnage as “Isreal’s War on Gaza” when the the most appropriate description should be “Isreal’s Genocide in Gaza”.
Incidentally, Biden had accused Trump of doing virtually the same thing during his better forgotten first term. At the tail end of his first term, Trump pardoned 74 individuals and commuted the sentences of 70 others hours before he departed the White House back then.
Today, If Trump is back in the White House, it owed much to Biden’s tragic incompetence so evident in his mishandling of the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine as well as his uncritical support for Netanyahu’s genocide in Gaza which alienated vital voters in the critical swing states the Democrats had relied on for as long as I can remember.
As far as American Presidents go, it will be difficult to remember one so pathetically lame and indecisive as “Sleepy Joe” – the sobriquet Trump routinely used to mock him throughout his tenure.
Biden must also be a genius for making Trump seem a more compassionate human being for his poor handling of news of the Gaza peace deal.
He will go down in history as one of the worst American presidents in living memory. His presidency was a slur on the legacies of fellow Democrats like John F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter who recently passed away. What we cannot accuse both men of is tardiness or criminal indecision particularly on America’s foreign policy.
The only silver lining in this avoidable tragedy is that with a second Trump presidency Biden has the front seat as the world reaps the whirlwind of the absolute carnage that is certain to come from a man who has proven that even the American constitution is not a sufficient guardrail to curtail his wild and often irrational impulses. May God save us all.
My only prayer is that Trump’s rampant hegemony, which is certain to come, will lead to America’s second “war” of independence without the bloodsheding.
I pray that Trump’s second term will trigger the sort of critical inquisition and self-introspection that Americans desperately require to free themselves from the excruciating embrace of zionism which has made their once promising country seem like a mere colony of Israel.
Bye-bye, Sleepy Joe. Au revoir. adiós. And, since we can only ignore the Chinese at our own peril these days, permit me to also add Zàijiàn!
In truth, though, the language hardly matters for as long as we have seen the last of Biden in the White House. Better an enemy you know than one that flatters to deceive.
Biden hardly deserves our tears. I hope that when his presidential library opens, it will reserve a prominent space for the study of his criminal complicity in the nonchalant slaughter of over forty-six thousand Palestinians in Gaza over twenty thousand of whom were children while he dozed in the White House.
But with Tony Blair and George W. Bush still walking freely on the surface of this planet, that will amount to a mission impossible.
The only certainty is that Biden somehow managed to outshine both men in the hall of infamy for war criminals for their well-documented interventions in the Middle East.
@Muhammad Al-Ghazali