Charity Begins at Home

 

Bravo Mr. Biden:  You really made a wonderful speech at the University of Lithuania during the NATO summit and in the presence of the Ukraine president Zelensky.  He might have been a little disappointed as the decision for Ukraine to join NATO was deferred until after the end of the conflict with Russia.  But you were very clear about your unwavering support of Ukraine against Russia’s invasion.    You used words like “Never and Ever” should one forget the right of people to stand up against such an aggression, and you spoke about common values and the defense of Freedom.

All the rhetoric that you used was excellent and in accordance with human rights values.  Yet the hypocrisy and the double standards were so glaring that it was pathetic especially that it was  only a few days earlier  that you had justified the Israeli  invasion  with   the most sophisticated armament, on the Palestinian  refugee camp  and the city of Jenin as well as other towns like Huwara and Turmus Aya, as being “the right of Israel to defend itself”.  Really Mr. Biden.  Is this a joke?  Or do you think the whole world is that  dumb to believe that justification.  Maybe they are ,  after all,  when one of the most powerful countries in the world can get away with such a statement.

I wish you would address your own people Mr. Biden, assuring them that you would never ever allow an American citizen to be homeless and without medical care, while you continue to provide both Israel,  an occupying power, and Ukraine, an occupied country,  with the most sophisticated armament.  Mr. Biden, charity starts at home!!!

Samia Khoury

A Palestinian Grandmother