“NO administration has helped Israel more than I have. None, none, none,” remarked US President Joe Biden recently as Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza entered its second year, marking a death toll of tens of thousands of Palestinian lives, most of the victims being women and children. The first US president to publicly declare himself a ‘Zionist’, he is not wrong.

It may be true that previous US administrations, too, were fully committed to supporting the Zionist state, but the outgoing president went much further in backing Tel Aviv’s war crimes in Gaza. The massive military aid provided by America has not only helped the Benjamin Netanyahu government sustain its longest and deadliest war but has also extended the conflict to other regional countries.

One year of devastating air strikes and ground invasions by the Zionist forces has turned the enclave into a death trap, displacing the entire population of Gaza. Meanwhile, hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s military operation in the occupied West Bank.

A similar horror has not been witnessed in recent history. Support from the US and some other Western countries has given Israel complete impunity. Given the Biden administration’s unconditional support for Israel, many observers accuse it of being complicit in what amounts to war crimes. In fact, it has now also become an American war. A record $17.9 billion has been spent by the Biden administration on military aid to Tel Aviv since the war erupted a year ago, leading to heightened tensions and conflict in the Middle East, according to Brown University’s Costs of War project released this........

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