On January 20, 2025 - 21 days from today - US President Joe Biden will leave the White House for the last time, leaving office after only one term, a nightmare that has haunted every White House occupant since the founding of the American state. As is the case with every end of a presidential term, writers and analysts from American newspapers, research institutions and academic centers, especially in the capital, Washington, are crowding in to give their take on the legacy, merits and advantages of the bygone administration; where it failed; why it lost; what it achieved from its promises, and so on from the discussion material that fills the space.

For the Palestinians, the answer is easy: Joe Biden’s legacy is to enable the occupying Israeli monster to commit “genocide” against the Palestinian people, and to ensure that it continues unabated, without any accountability.

Let’s start with the latest developments from this month: On December 19, 2024, Human Rights Watch said in a report it issued (that day) that Israeli authorities have been deliberately depriving Palestinian civilians in Gaza of adequate water since October 2023, likely resulting in the deaths of thousands and thus committing the crime against humanity of extermination, as well as acts of genocide.

In its 179-page report, “Genocide and Genocidal Acts: Israel’s Deliberate Deprivation of Water to Palestinians in Gaza,” the Israeli occupation authorities not only deliberately stopped pumping water into Gaza, but also disrupted much of Gaza’s water and sanitation infrastructure by cutting off electricity, restricting fuel, and preventing the entry of water treatment materials and essential water supplies.

On that day, the Jerusalem correspondent directed his questions to the US State Department spokesman about where the United States stands on the Human Rights Watch report, and he responded with prepared responses that clearly stated that America does not agree with the organization, and that Israel is not committing genocide against the Palestinians.

At the same time, in the White House (meters away from the State Department), National Security Council spokesman John Kirby and Biden spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre lined up to say the same thing, justifying Israel's crimes under the title of "Israel's right to defend itself."

Even President Biden himself did not miss the opportunity, speaking out in protest against the impudence of the organization that accuses Israel of genocide.

Two weeks earlier, on December 5, US State Department spokesman Vedant Patel said that the US President’s administration does not agree with the use of the term “genocide” as Amnesty International said in its report (12/4/2024) regarding Israel’s crimes in Gaza. His counterparts in the White House did the same, and Biden himself, who ranted and raged at Amnesty International’s impudence. Before that, he protested against the International Criminal Court, which dared to issue an arrest warrant on November 21 against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and (former) Defense Minister Yoav Galant.

President Biden has long claimed to have “done more for the Palestinian community than anyone else,” as he said last July, but experts disagree. “His legacy is the opposite; he is the president who has done the most damage to Palestinians, not just in Palestine but also here in the United States, where hate crimes against Palestinians have soared,” said Maryam Hassanein, a political appointee who resigned from his administration and insists his approach to Israel’s war on Gaza is a lasting stain on his legacy.

There is no doubt that the Israeli war on Gaza has raised, and continues to raise, widespread humanitarian concerns, ranging from famine to ethnic cleansing, according to a special UN panel. The US policy of enabling has enabled Israel to kill more than 45,000 Palestinians, the overwhelming majority of whom are women and children, and to injure more than 100,000, also the majority of whom are women and children, while up to 1.9 million people have been displaced from their destroyed homes.

Since the war broke out on October 7, 2023, President Biden has been unwavering in his unstinting support for Israel’s war. His administration provided $18 billion (according to Brown University) in military aid to Israel in the first year of the war—a record amount. In addition, earlier this year, the United States deployed about 100 troops to help operate the advanced THAAD missile defense system that Biden sent to Israel.

Biden justified Israel's shameful actions by adopting a false Israeli narrative about beheading children and rape, which Biden repeated over and over again, despite warnings from his senior White House staff not to repeat these false narratives.

One of the first to leave the Biden administration was Josh Boal, the former director of congressional and public affairs in the State Department’s Bureau of Political-Military Affairs (responsible for monitoring Israel’s compliance with US laws on the use of its weapons). Boal told the Jerusalem correspondent that he opposed what he called Israel’s indiscriminate killing of Palestinians, as well as the US decision to provide unconditional support to Israel. “Biden’s legacy on Gaza will be American complicity in genocide and American dismemberment of the rules-based international order — or at least the first and most important steps toward that,” Boal said of Biden’s legacy.

In March, Biden called the invasion of the southern city of Rafah a “red line.” But by May, Israel had bombed the city and moved troops into its densely populated neighborhoods. “When countries see the president of the United States setting red lines and doing nothing to enforce them, that weakens them globally, it dismantles global norms,” Paul said.

Anyone familiar with the American enablement of Israel’s (ongoing) war of annihilation against the Palestinians acknowledges that American diplomatic cover for Israel, and the constant flow of weapons to it, have ensured Biden’s undeniable complicity in the killing and forced starvation of the besieged Palestinian population in Gaza.

Last month, groups of experts from government, academia, and the nonprofit sector emerged to support Palestinian efforts to secure a judicial review of allegations that President Biden enabled Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Also last month, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit (which covers the Western states) affirmed a lower court’s ruling that Israel’s war “plausibly” constituted genocide. In a petition filed last month (by the same group of experts), the plaintiffs argue that courts have a constitutional duty to assess the (illegal) nature of President Biden’s actions in his unconditional support for Israeli war crimes.

While the Israeli occupation denies the accusation of committing genocide, international law experts acknowledge that the ferocity and brutality of the Israeli bombardment of Gaza, the relaxation of restrictions in “pursuing Hamas fighters to the point of counting hundreds of civilians” and the restrictions imposed on the entry of water, food and other humanitarian supplies may amount to genocide.

The 1948 Genocide Convention, ratified by the United States, states that “genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which [state parties] undertake to prevent and to punish.” It also states that “complicity in genocide” is a punishable act. US President Joe Biden has said there is no “red line” when it comes to US support for Israel. The US State Department has repeatedly said in response to questions from the Jerusalem correspondent, as have other journalists, that there is no need for a formal investigation into whether Israel has committed war crimes.

The Biden administration has also been accused of enabling famine in Gaza. An investigation by The Independent found that it failed to act on repeated warnings from its own experts and aid agencies. In September 2024, a ProPublica investigation found that USAID and other agencies had found that Israel had deliberately withheld humanitarian aid, but US Secretary of State Antony Blinken rejected their findings.

On Thursday, December 26, 2024, the Biden administration forced FUSE, the leading U.S. government organization monitoring food crises around the world, to withdraw a new report (this week) warning of an impending famine in northern Gaza under what it called a “near-total Israeli blockade,” following public criticism of the report by U.S. Ambassador to Israel Jacob Lew, known for his historical support for Israel and its settlement policies.

The United States, through its officials and spokesmen in the State Department and the White House, has repeatedly justified Israel’s systematic destruction of all Gaza hospitals, repeating the Israeli narrative that there were Hamas members present in one way or another in this or that hospital, without bothering to present a single piece of evidence of that, which is considered a war crime according to international laws and norms.

Yes, the Biden administration and the United States are complicit in Israel's genocidal war against the Palestinians.