Biden left without an easy solution as campus protests heat up
Biden left without an easy solution as campus protests heat up
As protests and attempts to quell them spread from New York to Los Angeles and many states in between, President Joe Biden finds himself caught in a series of political and diplomatic crosscurrents without an easy solution.
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Isn’t it obvious, Joe?
“While I condemn Hamas, and supported Israel’s right to defend itself in the aftermath of the attacks, the use of force in reprisal has become excessive - beyond what is justified or acceptable. So effective immediately, I’m halting all arms shipments to Israel, and calling on President Netanyahu to withdraw IDF troops from Gaza and the West Bank.”
Problem solved.
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He honestly thinks AIPAC is going to win him his election and not his pissed off voterbase lol.
Even if he’d just say “I hear you and you’re right, but sometimes I have to make bad choices for the country that are better for the long term” would be something.
The problem with something like that is Biden has no way to speak to the people without Israel also hearing.
Well... He also has very few friends in Israel. Bibi prefers Trump (who recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, which was a Bad Thing), and the way he's forcing Biden to eat shit right now seems like a pretty easy way to put his thumb on the scale.
"Alright this one is just for the people. Anyone in the government needs to close their eyes and stick their fingers in their ears and say 'lalala' for the next half hour."
EZ 😎
That would be nice, but iirc he needs a legal justification or an act passed by congress to actually halt arms shipments. He made moves not too long ago against a specific part of the Israeli military that was found to be committing war crimes, which Netanyahu is opposing. If we get lucky, he might be able to use Netanyahu's lack of cooperation to suspend or halt military aid entirely. His rhetoric has been trending in that direction, so I'm hopeful.
Are you lying to yourself or to us? He just signed a bill to give them billions of dollars and veto every resolution the UN comes up with while also trying to block the arrest warrant. You need to actually do some research and stop watching DNC propaganda news networks.
The Leahy Law. And the one unit they went after was smoke for the entire operation in Gaza. They aren't letting men leave the combat area right now. Just detaining and torturing them. This isn't just one problem unit.
Lmao even if he did that right this second, people would still be bitching that he didn’t do it months ago. Sure, it would have been great if he had started off that way, but what’s past is past, and if you want him to change course, then let the fucker change course
So 10 minutes after someone murders someone and they say I won't do that again, we should just say "the past is the past and at least he's not murdering anymore"?
Biden needs to be held accountable for the role he played in the genocide in Gaza. The right thing to do would be for him to end it at any cost, but he still needs to be held accountable for his crimes.
It's not that simple though; Israel wants to eliminate Hamas (and they have plenty of reason for that -- if Mexico attacked the US like Hamas attacked Israel, there would simply put no longer be a Mexico).
It would be tone deaf to Israel to say "leave Gaza" without that mission accomplished. They claim they don't even want the area, they just want Hamas gone.
Furthermore, Hamas is fighting with guerilla tactics. They're intentionally trying to provoke war crimes. Israel doesn't have to be so dang willing to fall for the trap. However, Hamas is making it exceptionally hard to fight a clean war from what I've read. Citizens in the Gaza strip are not just being abused by the IDF but by Hamas.
I wouldn't be surprised if Biden has his own Intel to back that all up. If it were as obvious as people want it to be, I'm pretty sure we would've stopped sending aid by now.
Mexico attacked the US like Hamas attacked Israel
Bad comparison. Mexico is an independent nation recognized by the UN. No nation disputes it's sovereignty over it's lands.
Palestine is dependent on Israel. Israel controls the flow of people and goods from it's borders. Israel controls electrical power to Palestine. Israel geographically surrounds Palestine.
One actor holds all the cards here. One actor has the power to improve conditions in Gaza (people don't generally choose to support violent militants for no reason) and chooses to bomb it.
No nation disputes it's sovereignty over it's lands.
That's not true, see Ukraine and plenty of other nations over history.
Mexico is also the closest to "has a terrorist organization capable of carrying out an attack near the scale of 9-11 living right next door and running the government."
You're right it isn't even close because the US government would never let it get that close.
Israel geographically surrounds Palestine.
Neither the Gaza strip (where all the fighting is going on AFAIK) or the west bank are "geographically surrounded." I checked a map because you legit made me question my geography.
One actor has the power to improve conditions in Gaza
I don't think that's entirely fair either. Israel can't "fix" Palestine anymore than the US can fix the problems in Mexico ... unless they take over Palestine. Nobody wants that...
They could definitely do more to let aid in. They could definitely do better about not hitting civilian targets... But this is not a "just do nothing and everything will get better silly Israel" situation. I think that's a pretty absurd take as popular it seems here.
Mexico attacking the US is an invalid comparison. Palestine isn't attacking Israel, Hamas is
Exactly, it's more like the cartels attacked the US and we in retaliation started bombing mexico out of existence while invading them and taking all of their land.
You do understand Hamas, the same Hamas that attacked Israel, is effectively the government of the Gaza strip right? The Palestinian authority had no recognized authority there.
So that's also a "terrible metaphor" because "it would be like the government of Mexico was the drug cartels, the drug cartels (which are the government) attacked the US and we in retaliation started bombing Mexico out of existence."
There's no perfect metaphor.
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