Less than one week before he will be leaving office, Madeleine Albright’s protégé Tony Blinken was invited to the Atlantic Council to address all the great work he had accomplished in the Middle East as Secretary of State. It did not go as planned.
Blinken, who faced pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrating outside, found himself forced to stop in the midst of delivering his pompous piece of lying sophistry ("Toward the Promise of a More Integrated Middle East,” he called it) when he was interrupted by protesters naming his Mideast policy for what it is: “kill, kill, and kill, and kill,” as one protester yelled.
Then another interrupted him, loudly and distinctly telling him:
“Blinken: Your legacy will be genocide. You will always be known as `Bloody Blinken, Secretary of Genocide.’ You have the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent people on your hands.… We will not forgive; we will not forget; we will hold you accountable.”
While the State Department transcript only inserted “(Protest utterances),” Max Blumenthal at the Grayzone, among others, has provided clips of the interventions, which can be spread far and wide.
