No. of Recommendations: 3
Again, credit where credit is due.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-bri...Kirby got a question from somebody about left wing protesters calling Biden "Genocide Joe". That's typical verbiage for the whackjobs that make up the left wing base, but never is it applied to a democrat in force the way it is to right wingers.
Here's Kirby's response:
Q Thank you. And the second question. Protesters here in D.C., in New York, across the country — they’ve settled on a nickname for the President. They’ve been calling him “Genocide Joe.” They wrote it on the gates. Do you have a response from the White House for that nickname that they’ve settled on?
MR. KIRBY: We’re not worried about nicknames and bumper stickers. I mean, it — it’s First Amendment, free speech.
The President is focused on — as he wrote in his op-ed, on making sure that we can continue to support Israel as they fight a terrible terrorist group, Hamas, and as we all work together to get humanitarian assistance in and get people out, including hostages.First off, Kirby gets points for calling a spade a spade: there's "freedom fighting" going on by Hamas. They're terrorists, period. Kudos.
He continues:
I said this the other day: Again, people can say what they want on — on the sidewalk and that — and we respect that. That’s what the First Amendment is about.
But this word “genocide” is getting thrown around in a pretty inappropriate way by lots of different folks.
What Hamas wants, make no mistake about it, is genocide. They want to wipe Israel off the map. They’ve said so publicly on more than one occasion — in fact, just recently.
And they’ve said that they’re not going to stop, what happened on the 7th of October is going to happen again and again and again. And what happened on the 7th of October? Murder. Slaughter of innocent people in their homes or at a music festival. That’s genocidal intentions.
Yes, there are too many civilian casualties in Gaza. Yes, the numbers are too high. Yes, fam- — too many families are grieving. And yes, we continue to urge the Israelis to be as careful and cautious as possible. That’s not going to stop, from the President right on down.
But Israel is not trying to wipe the Palestinian people off the map. Israel is not trying to wipe Gaza off the map.
Israel is trying to defend itself against a genocidal terrorist threat. So, when we’re going to start — if we’re going to start using that word, fine, let’s use it appropriately.Amen. He gets partial credit here, though: every single civilian casualty is happening in Gaza
because Hamas is using these people as human shields by preventing them from leaving. In other words, they're a death cult that hates da Jooz so much they're willing to sacrifice their own people.
