It apparently was movie night at the John Brennan household that prompted him to write a New York Times guest essay calling for Team Biden to prioritize Palestinian statehood.
Making matters far worse, the Russia-collusion hoaxer and corporate media favorite who was CIA director under Obama tweeted out a message with the disgusting implication that Israel needs to check its Holocaust privilege.
“I always found it difficult to fathom how a nation of people deeply scarred by a history replete with prejudice, religious persecution, & unspeakable violence perpetrated against them would not be the empathetic champions of those whose rights & freedoms are still abridged,” Brennan smugly wrote.
In the Times opinion piece, Brennan implies that a short movie called The Present made by Palestinian filmmaker Farah Nabulsi reminded him “of the frustration felt by every Palestinian who has to live with the stifling security measures and political oppression attendant to Israel’s military occupation.”
Legal scholars have disagreed over whether the term occupation actually applies in this case, especially since throughout history, territory has changed hands as a result of armed conflict.
According to Brennan, “Ms. Nabulsi’s 25-minute film is a powerful, heartbreaking account of the travails of Yusuf, a Palestinian man, and Yasmine, his young daughter, as they traverse an Israeli military checkpoint in the West Bank twice in a single day.”
Brennan fails to point that Israel is constantly forced to fend off attacks by terrorists and thus has to implement border control and other security measures. According to the Associated Press, for example, in recent days “militants” in Gaza have fired rockets at Israel, and violence has broken out in Old City of Jerusalem.
“The Biden administration is dealing with a dizzying array of domestic and international problems but the Palestinian quest for statehood deserves the early engagement of his national security team. The United States needs to tell Israeli leaders to cease provocative settlement construction and the sort of oppressive security practices depicted in The Present,” Brennan concludes in the piece headlined “Why Biden must watch this Palestinian movie.”
“A clear signal from President Biden that he expects and is ready to facilitate serious Israeli-Palestinian discussions on a two-state solution would be of great political significance,” Brennan added.
You can read the entire essay for the full context and draw your own conclusions.
“The Biden administration is dealing with a dizzying array of domestic and international problems,” writes @JohnBrennan. “But the Palestinian quest for statehood deserves the early engagement of his national security team.”
https://t.co/Bx08vtoIDg— New York Times Opinion (@nytopinion) April 27, 2021
That said, Democrats generally (and John Kerry, a perhaps most recent example) have increasing become hostile to longtime U.S.-ally Israel, even though it is the only functioning democracy in the Middle East.
With the assistance of President Donald Trump and his team, Israel has signed a number of breakthrough peace agreements with its neighbors known as the Abraham Accords, however, despite the political establishment’s insistence that none of that would have been possible without resolving the Palestinian issue.
Brennan even makes a list of criticisms that many Americans think were important steps forward.
“Unfortunately, during the Trump years, the United States ignored Palestinian interests and aspirations. Mr. Trump moved the American Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, rejecting the position of all previous U.S. administrations that it would endanger final status negotiations on that contested city. He senselessly severed funding to the Palestinian Authority and ended our contributions to the United Nations for Palestinian refugee assistance.”
The Present was nominated for an Academy Award and is streaming on Netflix.
Brennan’s article prompted Twitter applause from the platform’s standard left-wing cohort. Many others put forth a different view. Here is a sampling of the huge response:
I always found it difficult to fathom how an individual would make such an idiotic statement.
— Zeev (@shtetlite) April 28, 2021
I always found it difficult to fathom how any American could ignore the Palestinian dictatorships, decades of terror, payments to terrorists, multiple militias, and their repeated rejection of offers for statehood.
— Now_I’m_Sasha (@questionsin2014) April 28, 2021
I like it when people tell Jews that they should have somehow “learnt” something from expulsions, pogroms or the Holocaust.
Were they part of a university course or something? is there a tuition fee?
That said, Jews have learnt to be stronger than those who want them dead.
— Omer_C1 (@Omer_C1) April 28, 2021
I always found it difficult to fathom how a man who spied on his own nation’s Senate, and droned attacked people based solely on a profile of age, ethnicity, religion and his own hunch would not crawl into a hole, rather than troll other nations about their moral failings. https://t.co/PZIpWmq35w
— Michael Brendan Dougherty (@michaelbd) April 28, 2021
I always found it difficult to fathom how your self-awareness can be nonexistent while you spout your bigotry https://t.co/TUB3Argzdh
— The Meturgeman (@HaMeturgeman) April 28, 2021
If HAMAS was firing rockets at your house every day you would get that Jews weren’t placed on this earth to fix it or sacrifice our lives so you can feel better and look at us as martyrs.
— Cartright (@Vandalay_Inc) April 28, 2021
There’s a word for holding Jews to a higher standard than everyone else: It’s called anti-Semitism. But there should be a special word for holding Jews to a higher standard than everyone else due to the very persecution and genocide that was inflicted on us throughout history. https://t.co/suG1sNokEX
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) April 28, 2021
An Obama-era official denies reality and bases his @nytopinion Israel-bashing article on a MOVIE.
Palestinian TV and school curricula are still filled with incitement to violence. During YOUR tenure, Palestinians REJECTED a state.
And Israel has vastly improved checkpoints. pic.twitter.com/GtD5PI1hUH
— Elder of Ziyon 🇮🇱 (@elderofziyon) April 28, 2021
Perhaps …. could it be …. that those peoples leaders still want to perpetrate unspeakable violence towards the Jews?
And … somehow you think Pres Biden should base his foreign policy on a fictionalized movie? You sure you doing ok?
— Ari Ingel (@OGAride) April 28, 2021
I always found it difficult to understand how someone who admittedly voted for a communist party nominee for President of the United States (you Mr. Brennan) then became director of the CIA. And I’m further perplexed why ANYONE with a lick of sense would ever listen to you. 🤔
— Do your research (@throwharderfast) April 28, 2021
I find it impossible to fathom how a former head of the CIA (not exactly a model of respect for human rights, that perpetrates unspeakable violence) has the audacity to preach morality to anyone else
— ElBluemountain #NoToAntisemitism (@EBluemountain1) April 28, 2021
propaganda outlet providing a platform for the head intelligence goon who sent drone strikes to kill children in the middle east. not a good look!
— skinny boy (@citizenskinner) April 28, 2021
What is the problem over that past 7 decades isn’t the Israelis but the corrupt Palestinian leadership?
— Eric Kahn (@EricKahn14) April 28, 2021
If it were not for “friends“ like you John Brennan, Israel would not have enemies. Someone else’s farm is always easier to give away. Mexico has been missing Texas and California for a while – where is your heightened sense of “justice” on that subject? Hypocrite. @KCPKuli
— AK-67 (@andrekul) April 28, 2021
propaganda outlet providing a platform for the head intelligence goon who sent drone strikes to kill children in the middle east. not a good look!
— skinny boy (@citizenskinner) April 28, 2021
You’re just a pathetic person, not much else to say. Pathetic.
— Dov Hikind (@HikindDov) April 28, 2021
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