Joe Biden slams Trump for his comments on Nikki Haley's husband

Silence is more meaningful in diplomacy. What is left unsaid often carries more significance than words uttered at any international platform or before media for public consumption. Action speaks louder than speeches. Expressions and phrases used in global amphitheatre may not find place in dictionary. US-led Rather Than US-backed Unless one understands this reality, one would not be able to appreciate the actual message of the so-called recent criticism by the United States of America of indiscriminate bombing of civilian targets by Israel. One needs to fathom the distinction between the United States-backed Israeli operation and the United States-led Israeli military campaign. The fact is that ever since May 14, 1948 there does not exist anything called US-backed Israel, but it is always US-led Israel. True, Britain and France created it, but ever since then nothing happens in this Zionist state without the approval of Washington. The recent criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by President Joe Biden can be understood with the help of following example: In the era of feudalism landlords used to have their own henchmen. These lathi or baton-wielding gangsters would not only oversee and protect the land of their masters but would even target the rivals on former’s behalf. In Hindi they are also called ‘lathait’ (those wielding lathis). Ironically, these henchmen too are poorly-paid villagers belonging to the backward castes and Dalit groups. Their service would be used by feudal lords to grab the land of weak peasants or suppress any rebellious farm labours demanding genuine/minimum wages or better working condition. Very often the victims of these henchmen would fear them more than the distant master, who would not come in picture. Some times these henchmen too had to face retaliation from their rivals and have to even lose their lives. That is, they too have their October 7 moment. Thus, both of those who suffer come from almost the same poor and disempowered section of the society. The only difference is that these private strongmen of kulaks had a false notion that they are actually powerful. Some times when things really go out of hand the feudal master would, just for the public consumption, rebuke and scold their own henchmen. He would even give a slap or two to them in public though in private he would appreciate their action. Feudal Lord Joe Biden Exactly the same is the situation in Levant, where the feudal lords named Christianized Britain, France and later the United States with the help of Jews, who were recruited as henchmen, grabbed the land called Palestine. As they had to undergo enormous hardship in the same Christian Europe the Jews were left with no option, but to serve their masters. Lured in the name of Promised Land they were asked to look after the newly acquired property. These hapless Jews—not the rich ones living in West—were armed by the same Christianized imperialist powers, who actually had nothing to do with their own religion. As the real masters of this whole chunk of land are sitting in Washington, London and Paris the likes of Benjamin Netanyahu falsely started nursing the notion that they are the real owners. With modern day ‘lathis’—that is bombs and missiles—they would sometimes go overboard in targeting their rivals, Arabs in this case,who are incidentally overwhelmingly Muslims. So, like the feudal master who would sometimes pull up and even slap his henchmen President Joe Biden had in public criticized Netanyahu while in private he himself, and his Secretary of State, Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan whole-heartedly shower praise on him for implementing their order. The Western media is blowing this so-called rift in such a way as if Biden is really upset. If he is so, why not stop all military aid and withdraw warships from the region? Why in the United Nations Security Council and General Assembly the same US had strongly come out in favour of vassal state, Israel? In international geo-politics diplomacy and hypocrisy are the two sides of the same coin. Slave not Master Thus, like in the case of feudal set up it is the highhandedness and atrocities committed by the henchmen and not by the master (from Harry Truman to Joe Biden), which get highlighted. The latter is more conscious about his own image as he has to bluff and cheat many others in the world. Similarly, if the victims in feudal set up fear the henchmen more than the real perpetrator of the crime, over the years several Muslims religious scholars have slipped into the disease called paranoid psychosis. According to them the 0.2 per cent Jews are the real rulers of the world. In the process they have forgotten the role of the real Satan, the Christianized Western imperialist powers. Keeping the Jewish henchmen in front, the United States and its allies have so-far killed 20,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children. For them this figure is nothing when compared to Tokyo bombing when in one night of March 9-10, 1945 they killed over one lakh defenceless Japanese civilians. This was five months before the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In Germany the British and US fighter aircraft killed 25,000 fellow Christians of Dresden between February 13 and 15, 1945. In March and April, they carried out similar fire-bombing though fully knowing that Germany, like Japan, was on the verge of surrendering. And in Congo the Belgian imperialists carried out a genocide in which about 1.2 crore poor and hapless Blacks were eliminated between 1885 and 1908. A large number of them had their hands cut off. Mind it, Congo is today an overwhelmingly Christian country, but the colour of the skin of the people is different. So, no one talks about this double Holocaust. If Biden is reprimanding Israel for carrying out indiscriminate bombing, he is doing so because the public opinion is now not only going against the Zionist state, but also against its masters. So, a mild slap or two was the need of the hour. What Biden and his friends in the Western capitals are not understanding is that unlike in World War-II and other atrocities committed in the past in this televised world today they cannot suppress all the facts from coming out. The West is getting isolated in its own backyard. — Joe Biden

Washington: US President Joe Biden has slammed his predecessor Donald Trump for dragging Indian-American Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley’s husband into the swirl of personal attacks.

Haley’s husband Major Michael Haley, a commissioned officer with the South Carolina National Guard, is currently on a year-long deployment with the 218th Maneuver Enhancement Bridge, which is providing support in the Horn of Africa. He deployed in June.

Trump at a rally in South Carolina on Saturday questioned the whereabouts of Michael Haley.

“Where’s her husband? Oh, he’s away… What happened to her husband? Where is he? He’s gone,” Trump said at his rally in Conway in South Carolina, his first visit to the state this year.

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“The answer is that Major Haley is abroad, serving his country right now. We know he thinks our troops are ‘suckers,’ but this guy wouldn’t know about service to his country if it slapped him in the face,” Biden said in a tweet on Sunday.

Haley, 52, the only candidate against Trump in the Republican Party’s nomination race, fired back at Trump’s comments later on Saturday and again on Sunday.

“Donald Trump’s comments represent a pattern of disrespect to every military member who sacrifices for us and the families who sacrifice alongside them,” she told Face The Nation CBS on Sunday.

“Military service is an incredible sacrifice, not only by those in uniform but also the families who stand behind them. I am grateful for every single one of you,” she said.

“I’m running for president because my husband, Michael, and his military brothers and sisters put their lives on the line to fight for our country. We should be willing to fight for our country here at home,” Haley said Sunday.

“Donald, if you have something to say, don’t say it behind my back; get on a debate stage and say it to my face,” she told a crowd in South Carolina on Saturday.

“I am proud of Michael’s service. Every military family knows it’s a sacrifice. I have long talked about the fact that we need to have mental competency tests for (politicians) over the age of 75,” she said.

Trump claims he would pass that maybe he would, maybe he wouldn’t, she said.

“But if you mock the service of a combat veteran, you don’t deserve a driver’s license, let alone to be president of the United States,” she said.

Conservatives and liberals alike are covering Trump’s attack on military families, and they agree: “This is trash.” As a result, Trump is taking heat for his comments.

“Donald Trump understands absolutely nothing about what it means to serve this country. This disrespect of Nikki Haley’s husband demonstrates again why he isn’t fit to be president,” said Navy Combat Veteran and retired NSA astronaut Captain Mark Kelley.

“Nikki Haley denounces Trump’s NATO comments and defends her husband against his attacks,” The New York Times said.

“I am old enough to remember a Republican Party where going after someone’s husband serving abroad would have been disqualifying,” CNN’s Jake Tapper said.

“This is trash,” said Mary Katharine Ham, host of the “Getting Hammered” pod.