The Grayzone’s Max Blumenthal has unleashed a torrent of criticism at US Secretary of State Antony Blinken over the Israeli war on Gaza that Washington did nothing to stop for 15 months.
Blinken appeared at the last State Department briefing of the Biden presidency, just days before President-elect Donald Trump is scheduled to be sworn in, to claim the past four years have seen successful diplomacy.
In particular, the departing secretary of state described the Israel-Gaza ceasefire as something the current administration proposed in May 2024, although most who were involved in the talks credited Trump’s intervention.
”Why did you keep the bombs flowing when we had a deal in May?” Blumenthal can be heard saying at one point. “We all knew we had a deal. Everyone in this room knows we had a deal, Tony, and you kept the bombs flowing.”