Crash Course: Joe Biden's moral collapse on Gaza could help Donald Trump win

Joe Biden is the main enabler of Israel's carnage in Gaza. Morally and politically, that could mean disaster [View in browser](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnvwJXP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvdTA3Zzlzcmk0dy8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXZyYmszZG5wZmdXA3NwY0IKZdVbfdxlKQgAlFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) Your daily update from [Salon](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnvwJXP0RoaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvamE2eXo2c3U5My8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXZyYmszZG5wZmcmbGhfZW09dHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODUlNDBnbWFpbC5jb21XA3NwY0IKZdVbfdxlKQgAlFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo). ~/AASU4wA~/RgRnvwJXP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvNjM0Yjl3NzJzaC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXZyYmszZG5wZmdXA3NwY0IKZdVbfdxlKQgAlFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnvwJXP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvbTVwM2FncWl4bC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXZyYmszZG5wZmdXA3NwY0IKZdVbfdxlKQgAlFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnvwJXP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvZmNwNmk2cDlveC8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXZyYmszZG5wZmdXA3NwY0IKZdVbfdxlKQgAlFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnvwJXP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsveXJvM3FtMHQ2cS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXZyYmszZG5wZmdXA3NwY0IKZdVbfdxlKQgAlFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo~/AASU4wA~/RgRnvwJXP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvcHVmaHVvdTRvbS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXZyYmszZG5wZmdXA3NwY0IKZdVbfdxlKQgAlFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo Joe Biden's moral collapse on Gaza could help Donald Trump win From Norman Solomon: While the Senate deliberated, the White House again [made clear](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnvwJXP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvZWF6M2pxcGhxNi8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXZyYmszZG5wZmdXA3NwY0IKZdVbfdxlKQgAlFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) that it wasn’t serious about getting in the way of Israel’s planned assault on the city of Rafah. That’s where most of Gaza’s 2.2 million surviving residents have taken unsafe refuge from the Orwellian-named Israel Defense Forces. [An exchange](~/AASU4wA~/RgRnvwJXP0REaHR0cHM6Ly9hLnBvc3QubGhkLmxpbmsvb2wwMWpjeThqeS8_bGhfYWlkPTM1NDM5NTImbGhfY2lkPXZyYmszZG5wZmdXA3NwY0IKZdVbfdxlKQgAlFIbdHJpc3RyYW1iYWxkd2luODVAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAo) at a White House news conference underscored that Biden is determined to keep enabling Israel’s continuous war crimes in Gaza. 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