In a closed-door meeting with Arab American leaders in Michigan this week, one of President Biden’s top foreign policy aides acknowledged mistakes in the administration’s response to the war in Gaza, saying he did not have “any confidence” that Israel’s government was willing to take “meaningful steps” toward Palestinian statehood.
The remarks came after months of public and private admonitions from the Biden administration for Israel to take a more surgical approach in a conflict that has killed more than 27,000 Palestinians, according to health authorities in Gaza. On Thursday, Mr. Biden himself declared that Israel had gone “over the top” in its response to the Hamas attack on Oct. 7.
The Biden aide, Jon Finer, a deputy national security adviser, offered some of the administration’s clearest expressions of regret for what he called “missteps” it had made from the beginning of the violence, and he pledged that it would do better.
The softest, do-nothing response for someone who is arming Israel.
People should remember that it’s not what they say, but what they do.
That’s great—now when will the NYT express regrets for its coverage?
The problematic articles varied in authorship and subject matter, but many shared a common feature. They depended at least in part on information from a circle of
IraqiIsraeli informants,defectorspoliticians andexilesmilitary leaders bent on‘‘regime change’’“exterminating Hamas” inIraqGaza, people whose credibility has come under increasing public debate in recent weeks… Complicating matters for journalists, the accounts of these exiles were often eagerly confirmed by United States officials convinced of the need tointervene in Iraqsupport Israel. Administration officials now acknowledge that they sometimes fell for misinformation from these… sources. So did many news organizations – in particular, this one.The New York “we will credulously fall for the lies of government officials one million” Times
Also, this auto generated transcript is kinda garbage and you should just listen to the episode, but around the 6-8 minute range of Behind the Bastards’ Crack-toberfest Part 5 episode where they talk about Iran-Contra, they talk about a time when a few details of that conspiracy were just starting to come to light and the White House had to hold a press conference, and a reporter from a smaller paper was like, “Hey, we heard a rumor that the CIA is actually working with drug traffickers, is that true?” but before the guy running the presser could answer the NYT reporter attending blew up and started yelling at the first reporter about how his unserious questions were making them all look unprofessional, and the question never got answered (until like five years later when Gary Webb’s investigative reporting answered it for us).
They’re one of the best resourced news outfits in the world with a lot of dogged journalists who will do great work when they can, but the top levels of that paper make sure it’s always a mouthpiece for the powerful
No problem. Those journalists don’t need to apologize, NYT does.
Ultimately New York Times is fully responsible for manufacturing consent for Genocide.
Since NYT still isn’t publicly retracting their story they are still actively complicit in israel’s genocide.
And he’s only saying this in private because…?
Yes, meetings with senior policy wonks and whatever interest group are held in like a private office or conference room, maybe a private room in a restaurant or hotel, when not in DC, anyway, and attendees need to be invited.
The headline is misleading, implying that anything is said here in secret.
I know too many people that just read headlines assuming it’s a adequate summary of the story. At this point the people writing headlines know people think this way right?
There is no war in ba sing se
At least he’s capable of introspection and regret, unlike Trump…
that’s just damage control. There’s some strategic mobilisation amongst US-Arabs communities not to vote him during the next election, e.g. in Michigan where their votes are important to the election outcome. Yes, they know Trump would be worst in his support for the Israeli. But it’s part of their stands for being neglected by the current administration and sending a strong message.
If my government is gonna commit atrocities in my name I at least want them to feel bad about it
Any old run-of-the-mill (not even high office quality) sociopath will easilly tell you “I’m so sorry” whilst not at all being sorry, if they think it will get you to do what they want.
It means nothing when the kind of people that seeks power say anything that helps convince other in a way that furthers their aim of reaching or keeping power.
Even if you’re still willing to given them the benefit of the doubt, this being the office of the President Of The United States there’s lots of intelligent people there and they have lots of access to information and advisors to be well informed, so what they do are “informed choices” (or at least have the greatest opportunity in the World to be informed) by which point whilst that “sorry” about their support on the first week might made sense, it makes no sense whatsoever after that when it was increasingly clear even to us “plain old citizens” what Israel was doing.
Both in terms of a generic risk assessment on such individuals and on a logical analisys of their actual actions and words in this situation, one can only conclude this “sorry” is complete total unfelt bollocks uttered merely to manipulate people to get their votes.
Yes and I’d prefer someone who feigned being upset to someone who is legitimately happy this is happening.
We’ve been ruled by sociopaths since they managed to convince others to let them rule. They’re gonna do awful things. The best I can hope for is that they act sad.
He’s capable of knowing when to pretend. 🙄
That’s not very brave
Finer about to get fired.
You don’t negotiate with terrorists.
