{"id":291690,"date":"2024-07-22T07:24:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T07:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=291690"},"modified":"2024-07-24T08:08:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T08:08:21","slug":"bidens-legacy-is-genocide-reactions-pour-in-as-us-pres-quits-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=291690","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s legacy is \u2018genocide\u2019: Reactions pour in as US pres. quits race"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Press TV \u2013 July 22, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Rights groups and social media frequenters react to US President Joe Biden\u2019s decision to cancel his re-election bid, saying he will be remembered by how he facilitated the Israeli regime\u2019s ongoing war of genocide against Palestinians.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The reactions began pouring in on Monday, immediately\u00a0after Biden announced in a letter on social media\u00a0that he was stepping aside as a candidate for the 2024 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>The decision came following a disastrous performance at a debate also featuring arch-rival Donald Trump that raised questions concerning Biden\u2019s capability to run another term.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the decision, however, the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights Action (USCPR), a rights group, said, \u201cIt was not Biden\u2019s failed debate that showed he is unfit to lead. It was the tens of thousands of bombs he sent to kill Palestinian families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden had \u201crepeatedly funded, armed, and backed Israel\u2019s mass slaughter of the Palestinian people,\u201d the USCPR said, adding, \u201cNothing will erase the fact that\u201d Biden\u2019s \u201clegacy is \u2013 and always will be \u2013 GENOCIDE.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of Drop Site, an independent news website, and a former journalist at The Intercept, an online American news organization, chimed in.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">When I read the lionizing of Biden, emphasizing his decency and heroism, all I can think of is that little girl in Gaza whose jaw was blown off and all the other Palestinian children who were dismembered, burned alive, murdered with US weapons in a war Joe Biden facilitated.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; jeremy scahill (@jeremyscahill) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeremyscahill\/status\/1815107363873202655?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 21, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I read the lionizing of Biden, emphasizing his decency and heroism, all I can think of is that little girl in Gaza whose jaw was blown off and all the other Palestinian children who were dismembered, burned alive, murdered with US weapons in a war Joe Biden facilitated,\u201d he wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>The group was referring to the United States\u2019 sustaining and even invigorating its already unfaltering arms support for the Israeli regime during the war, which has so far killed nearly 39,000 people and wounded some 90,000 others.<\/p>\n<p>Owen Jones, author and activist, likewise underlined that Biden had the blood of tens of thousands of Palestinians on his hand, calling him \u201cA monster, who belongs in jail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsrael would never have been able to raze Gaza to the ground without him,\u201d Jones noted, adding, \u201c\u2026if hell exists, that man would have a first class ticket there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Human rights campaigner\u00a0Sophie McNeill echoed the criticism, saying, \u201cThe next Democratic nominee must end their support for this criminal war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2024\/07\/22\/729821\/United-States-Biden-Israel-genocide-Gaza\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden&#8217;s real legacy comes in the form of weapons he provided that killed and mutilated thousands of Palestinian children <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":287345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Inside_the_White_House_and_Washingtons_Beltway"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291693,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291690\/revisions\/291693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/287345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}