{"id":44487,"date":"2023-10-26T07:20:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T15:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=44487"},"modified":"2023-10-26T07:20:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T15:20:12","slug":"ghoulish-white-house-response-to-genocidal-ethnic-cleansing-of-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/26\/ghoulish-white-house-response-to-genocidal-ethnic-cleansing-of-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghoulish White House Response to Genocidal Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby advised Gazans Tuesday that their destruction and ethnic cleansing will continue relentlessly. \u201cThis is war. It is combat. It is bloody, ugly and it\u2019s going to be messy and innocent civilians are going to be hurt going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No spokesman Kirby, not just hurt. Innocent civilians in Gaza are dying every day, every hour, every minute under thousands of bombs but no food, no water, no medicine; not even electricity to run their overwhelmed hospitals.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no longer a war. It\u2019s the mass destruction of 2.3 million Palestinians being systematically killed and driven from their open air prison by Israel and wholly enabled by the United States.<\/p>\n<p>It is the worst, most grotesque and inhumane policy of the United State I\u2019ve witnessed in my 70-plus years of following American foreign affairs.<\/p>\n<p>Perpetual war in Ukraine that could go nuclear is not enough for Biden. He\u2019s all in now for perpetual war in the Middle East that could explode into a massive regional war at any moment, if it doesn\u2019t kill or remove all the Palestinians from Gaza first.<\/p>\n<p><i>Walt Zlotow became involved in antiwar activities upon entering University of Chicago in 1963. He is current president of the West Suburban Peace Coalition based in the Chicago western suburbs. He blogs daily on antiwar and other issues at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heartlandprogressive.blogspot.com\">www.heartlandprogressive.blogspot.com<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby advised Gazans Tuesday that their destruction and ethnic cleansing will continue relentlessly. \u201cThis is war. It is combat. It is bloody, ugly and it\u2019s going to be messy and innocent civilians are going to be hurt going forward.\u201d No spokesman Kirby, not just hurt. Innocent civilians in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":514,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-44487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44487"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44489,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44487\/revisions\/44489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44487"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=44487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}