from The Last American Vagabond:
US President, Joe Biden, joined leaders across the Western World in condemning the shocking assassination attempt against former American President Donald Trump this Saturday. “We cannot condone this”, said Biden at an address to the nation, condemning political violence as unacceptable. Yet none of these leaders condemned an assassination attempt the day prior that murdered over 90 civilians, and almost all of those now taking the moral high-ground are in some way connected to similar political violence.
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“It’s sick”, remarked President Joe Biden on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, who went on to state that there is “no place in America for this kind of violence.” European leaders even chimed in to condemn “political violence”, with French President Emmanuel Macron saying that the shooting is “tragedy for our democracies,” while European Commission President, Ursula Von Der Leyen, wrote on X [formerly Twitter] that “political violence has no place in a democracy”.
The immediate reaction from many supporters of the Trump campaign online was to point out the hypocrisy of many of those, especially politicians belonging to the Democratic Party, who were shortly before labelling Donald Trump the biggest threat to US democracy. However, despite the clear change in tone towards the Republican Party nominee, the true depths of hypocrisy here do not begin with anti-Trump rhetoric, but with real world assassinations that have spilt the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent people.
Some Political Assassinations Aren’t Equal To Others
Little known to much of the American public and underreported across the Western corporate media, was another assassination attempt that was carried out with US weapons and diplomatic cover less than 24-hours prior to the shooting at the Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Receiving no condemnation from Biden, Von Der Leyen or Marcon, Israel launched a series of missile strikes against Palestinian refugees sheltering in tents, located in what Israel calls a designated “safe zone”, murdering at least 90 civilians and injuring 300 others. That same day, Israel murdered a total of 141 Palestinians, half of whom were women and children. What was the official Israeli response to the massacre? It said that it was aware there would be civilian casualties, but justified the attack by claiming it had tried to assassinate Hamas leader, Mohammed al-Deif. Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, could not confirm whether the assassination was successful, as Hamas released a statement asserting that the attempt was unsuccessful and that al-Deif is alive.
The Israeli military’s Chief of Staff, Herzi Halevi, also conceded that it was “still too early to summarize the results of the attack,” which followed an Israeli army announcement about the attack which did not even mention the name Mohammed al-Deif and instead named another Hamas official. Mohammed al-Deif has survived 7 assassination attempts by Israel, the second latest killed his immediate family, including his wife, 7-month-old son and 3-year-old daughter in 2014.
The New York Times piece, which quoted unnamed Israeli security sources, was entitled ‘Close Surveillance Led to Israeli Attack on Hamas Compound‘, coldly focusing on how Israel allegedly concluded that the Hamas commander was at the site they struck and ridiculously alleging that al-Deif was estimated to be in that location partly due to Hamas’ belief that Israel wouldn’t strike such a densely population civilian zone — despite having done so repeatedly for the last nine months, and countless times before October 7. Other Western media outlets also chose to focus on the assassination attempt, without mentioning the fact that not only did Israel drop thousands of pounds worth of war heads at the location, but also bombed, and opened fire from drones at emergency crews and medical workers when they arrived to the scene in order to try and save the seriously injured. The location that was horrifically bombarded was located West of the city of Khan Younis, in an area called al-Mawasi, where tent cities house over a million refugees that are sheltering in the “safe zone”; after Israeli missile strikes destroyed their homes or force them to flee.
The US government still has not addressed the massacre that ensued and is permitting its ally to use its own weapons to commit continuous civilian massacres inside the Gaza Strip, based upon flimsy evidence of a supposed Hamas target. Apparently, this kind of political violence is fine, but the Trump assassination attempt that killed one and injured three was not.
Besides EU and US leaders, Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, said of the Trump assassination attempt that he was “sickened by the shooting”, after remaining completely silent on the massacre in Gaza the day prior. This, as the UK’s newly elected Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, said he was “appalled by the shocking scenes” at the rally, a comment coming from a man that not only did not comment on the massacre in Gaza, but had also said previously that Israel had “the right” to cut off electricity and water to the Palestinian civilian population there.
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