Chidi,
I don’t have time for sanctimonious hypocrisy and histrionics.
Re - Blinken says the ball is in Hamas' court on Gaza ceasefire
Wake up and shmell the coffee!
Looka here : Al Jazeera
And talking about Coffee - what would Man Friday // the Manuel of Fawlty Towers ( Senor Kofi Annan) and she who nominated him ( Madeleine Albright) and Boutros Boutros-Ghali and U Thant and Dag Hammarskjöld and Folke Bernadotte and Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat and Madiba Nelson Mandela have been saying or indeed, my favourite Mary Robinson ( a moral icon) what is she saying, and above all Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alaihi wa salaam and Imam Ali alaihi salaam and Umar Ibn Khattab Radi-Allahu 'anhu, the same Umar ibn Khattab Radi Allahu 'anhu who is invoked in Article 11 of the Hamas Charter, what would he have been saying today, about
Some of the prayerful
such as Mufti Menk
are saying tawakkul
Right now - a day before this year's historic Ramadan, whatever your intentions may be, on the surface at least, give your political imagination some poetic licence so that it’s no longer a crime to believe The Legends of the Jews, or some holy fairy tales from Babylonia, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Jesus, Paul, Joseph Campbell, the myths about the “Holy” Land, “Little Boy”, USA, Somebody blew up America or the genocide of the Native Americans, Genocide Joe Biden, Blinken, life after death, the Oslo Peace Process, and all the other hype that may comfort your soul or provide you with some sense of comic or cosmic relief.
When the revisionists look back and contemplate the Biafra War of Independence, it should not be dismissed as an argumentum ad misericordiam to tearfully point at the photos of starving Biafran children, even if right now some of the same people and some of the descendants of those who suffered starvation in Biafra want to declare their apostolic neutrality about the on-going genocide in Gaza because they believe that this phase of the Gaza Genocide, is but a foretaste of the ultimate Battle of Armageddon, as a result of which belief they savour the taste, the foretaste in which - according to their apocalyptic Book of Revelation, some passages in the Book of Daniel and other cock and bull stories, ancient manuscripts, futuristic science fiction, the lost tribes of Israel, those who reject Jesus, the apostates, the forces of evil and the fallen angels will confront the angelic forces in the valley of Armageddon for the final bloody showdown, and the pentecostal pastors who are currently silent or ”neutral” will either be on Yaweh’s side or Yaweh Himself will be on their side and either come down personally or send His elite ballations which he did not do before the other Holocaust, to fight the mother of all genocidal wars in the universe which He created.
Please, let’s get this clear once and for all: On an entirely logical and logistic basis, the Messers Biden and Blinken administration wants us to believe that the Hamas which Israel their genocidal partner-in-crime wants to exterminate, should cease all resistance and enter into a ceasefire deal on Israel’s terms before every able-bodied man in Gaza suspected of being a member of Hamas or a potential member of Hamas is wiped out, In other words, the Hamas representatives at the negotiations should first sign Hamas’ death warrant for extermination, before the final massacres can go ahead with Biden & Blinken’s blessings, sometime later?
Here was Tucker Carlson tearing Biden to pieces over his last State of the Union Address and here’s Fox News doing the rest on BIden's State of the Union Address ..
After watching Tucker Carlson’s Donald Trump interview, I’m looking forward to the BIden -Trump presidential debates after which - if that ever takes place, and Trump having swept the floor with Biden ( all Biden can come up with of course, referring to Trump as a traitor, a criminal, and a threat to democracy, - as a result of which Trump as underdog is going to garner tremendous sympathy, most probably, it should be time for the United States of America to be preparing for the post-Biden-Blinken era and phase 2 of US & the rest of the World determining the future of Africa, Haiti, and all the oil and gas in the Middle East…