By Diego Ramos
Jeremy Konyndyk, president of Refugees International, an independent humanitarian organization, and former head of disaster assistance at the U.S. Agency for International Development, penned a fierce essay criticizing the Biden administration’s year-plus-long failure to hold Israel accountable and enforce the very measures it imposed on the Netanyahu government.
Beginning with the Biden administration’s most recent letter sent to the Israeli government—stating that Israel had 30 days to take “urgent and sustained actions to reverse” the humanitarian crisis in Gaza—Konyndyk plainly condemns the U.S. for failing to impose any consequences for Israel’s almost complete disregard to the letter.
According to Konyndyk, “When Refugees International and seven other prominent aid groups conducted a detailed analysis of 19 discrete actions the U.S. government had asked Israel to take, we found that Israel had demonstrated no meaningful action on 15 of them and had only partially addressed the remaining four.”
Despite this and previous efforts by the Biden administration, Konyndyk points to the near-entire displacement of Gaza’s population, the starvation of Palestinians, killing of aid personnel and blockage of aid from entering Gaza as clear cut examples of Biden’s unconditional support of Israel….
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