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[Zorax]

Kind of a prick under ones saddle annoying person aren't you?

[fuagf]

brooklyn13, Never i hope where it is so abominably misplaced as yours was. Since you visit here so infrequently you likely missed one little story:

In my local one crowded Saturday afternoon a young guy was laughing loudly while making a big deal about the controversy around same-sex marriage. This was many months ago before we finally grew up about it. He yelled to the crowd, "Is anyone here in favor of gay marriage." Silence. The worst kind of silence which never should be. As i had seen it before, in other places about other matters - SILENCE. So, as in another different case, i spoke out.

After a minute or so, he being emotionally upset and not coping, he started to come for me. LOL A number intervened while i was figuring how exactly to step aside and trip him.

He was an asshole on that matter. Just as you are on this one.

[arizona1]

Another staffer resigns from the Biden administration over Gaza

When Lily Greenberg Call resigned from the Interior Department on May 15, she was the first Jewish person appointed by Biden to resign publicly over Israel’s war in Gaza and the fifth administration staffer to leave in protest.

As reported in the Washington Post (free link),
https://wapo.st/4dOCMH6 she said in her resignation letter that she could “no longer in good conscience continue to represent this administration amidst President Biden’s disastrous, continued support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.”

(A copy of her resignation letter to the Interior Secretary can be found HERE.)

🚨 MUST READ: Jewish Biden staffer (@LGreenbergCall) resigns on Nakba Day. “I can no longer in good conscience continue to represent this administration amidst President Biden's disastrous, continued support for Israel's genocide in Gaza.”

Here's a plain text version of her full… https://t.co/Irzgc9XAS8

— Decensored News (@decensorednews) May 16, 2024

Twenty-six years old, the former special assistant to the chief of staff in the Interior Department said in her letter that she had joined the Biden Administration because she “believed in fighting for a better America.” The Washington Post says in an article about her and her resignation:

while she is not “a seasoned or high-ranking official,” her resignation is notable because she worked in the presidential campaigns of both Biden and Vice President Harris and stressed her Jewish background in resigning.

The Post adds:

Lily Greenberg Call cited her Jewish upbringing and ties to Israel. She wrote that her family escaped antisemitic persecution in Europe and came to the United States, noting that they changed their names at Ellis Island and that her grandparents could not go to college.

The Post article says she was long active in pro-Israeli groups. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 2019, where she was president of Bears for Israel, and said she grew up going to student events hosted by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

The Post article also says:

In a piece for Teen Vogue two years ago, she wrote that she began to question AIPAC and its mission of ensuring unconditional American support for Israel as she got to know more Palestinians, and after AIPAC endorsed Republican candidates who supported Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen.

In an interview on MSNBC on May 18, Lily Greenberg Call mentioned a comment by Biden at a White House Hanukkah event where he said: “Were there no Israel, there wouldn’t be a Jew in the world who was safe.” She commented that her ancestors had emigrated to the U.S. to be safe.

In her resignation letter, she wrote:

Any system that requires the subjugation of one group over another is not only unjust, but unsafe. Jewish safety cannot -- and will not -- come at the expense of Palestinian freedom. Making Jews the face of the American war machine makes us less safe.

I reject the premise that one people’s salvation must come at another’s destruction. I am committed to creating a world where this does not happen -- and this can’t be done from within the Biden administration.

She also wrote that Biden “has used nearly no leverage” against Israel since its war in Gaza eight months ago:

The president has the power to call for a lasting cease-fire, to stop sending weapons to Israel and to condition aid. The United States has used nearly no leverage throughout the last eight months to hold Israel accountable; quite the opposite, we have enabled and legitimized Israel’s actions with vetoes of U.N. resolutions designed to hold Israel accountable.

In an interview with the Post, Lily Greenberg Call said that resigning was a difficult decision for her because of the community she grew up in, both here and in Israel, but the Jewish values she was brought up with led her to resign.

My Jewish identity is the most important part of who I am, and it is all of the values that I was raised with … and all of my Jewish education, 20 years of it, that led me to this decision, and it’s how I know this is right.

What Israel is doing to people in Gaza and to Palestinians across the land is incredibly un-Jewish to me and such a disgrace to our ancestors.

In her resignation letter, Lily Greenberg Call said she is “terrified” by rising antisemitism, but she is certain “the answer is not to collectively punish millions of innocent Palestinians through displacement, famine, and ethnic cleansing.”
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/21/2241028/-Another-staffer-resigns-from-the-Biden-administration-over-Gaza?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web