The president bragged that 1,000 U.S. troops will be deployed to the Mediterranean Sea to build a “floating pier” to allow material aid to enter Gaza. But this plan has been widely criticized by the Palestinian resistance, as well as United Nations representatives and groups such as Doctors Without Borders and Save the Children. And there is a concern that, under the guise of delivering aid, Washington will find an opening to move its troops into Gaza.

Neither the U.S. nor [its neocolony] has budged an inch when it comes to opening the border crossings where aid trucks are blocked from delivering aid to Gaza. Three times the U.S. has used its veto power in the U.N. Security Council to kill resolutions mandating a permanent ceasefire. Biden only meekly admonished […] Netanyahu, saying: “Protecting and saving innocent lives has to be a priority,” while still continuing to provide arms to the apartheid state.

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While the votes took place within the confines of the capitalist Democratic Party, they reflect the mass anger over the genocide in Gaza. No one with even modest progressive leanings wants to see Donald Trump — who is every bit as pro-Zionist as Biden — win the November election. But millions of U.S. workers are also disgusted with “Genocide Joe.”

The fact that those two are presented as the only choices for U.S. president in November exposes the much-hyped sham that is capitalist “democracy.” As Karl Marx wrote in “The Civil War in France” in 1871, “The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”