the Palestinian American doctor who walked out of the WH meeting last night:
He understood "it would be the first time that the President would hear from people who were actually on the ground in Gaza, since Oct 7. [WOW].
"It was a few members from the Muslim American community, people who had also been on the ground in Gaza, ready to give their firsthand, eyewitness testimony. [I was] the only Palestinian-American." [DOUBLE F*CKING WOW]
"[I understood] that it was going to be some sort of working dinner" re "the humanitarian catastrophe in #Gaza"
"The President walks in…he just says: 'This is a listening session, we're here to hear you guys out…we're working very hard on it.' There's no mention of Gaza, or Palestine, or #WorldCentralKitchen, people who have been killed, the starvation or the famine in the north, or the looming invasion in Rafah, which we're all very concerned about & trying to communicate a sense of urgency"
[Contrast this to Biden's famous empathy for & personalized outreach to grieving people.
There is none of that here. None of it.
He knew the ER doctor was Palestinian American and had just been serving in a hospital in Khan Yunis & must have seen absolute horrors. He didn't ask if he'd lost anyone.
The reception sounds cold AF.
I think you can compare it yourself to other receptions Biden has given to other Americans - or even his embrace in the Oval Office of an Italian fascist.]
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