President Joe Biden and his top advisers are warning Israel with growing force that it will become increasingly difficult for it to pursue its military goals in Gaza as global outcry intensifies about the scale of humanitarian suffering the...
He unleashed hell by 'unconditional' support. All he had to do was to be nuanced and ask for a proportional response following the Geneva convention. And we're still not talking about the long term effect this will have for his own country. And he was doing so well...
It's been massively detrimental to Biden's approval ratings, and nothing he does will win over the right. This is rapidly becoming a threat to the viability of the Democrats in an election.
God these people are so out of touch with reality. Israel had it all, even support from millions of moderate muslims over the world. They lost it after what, day 3? We're almost a month in and these assholes act if the world was supporting them all the time. Talk about forming the narrative. They're so stupid they threw millions online for ads to support them and still lost public approval.
President Joe Biden and his top advisers are warning Israel with growing force that it will become increasingly difficult for it to pursue its military goals in Gaza as global outcry intensifies about the scale of humanitarian suffering there.
Behind the scenes, American officials also believe there is limited time for Israel to try to accomplish its stated objective of taking out Hamas in its current operation before uproar over the humanitarian suffering and civilian casualties – and calls for a ceasefire – reaches a tipping point.
In fact, there is recognition within the administration that that moment may arrive quickly: Some of the president’s close advisers believe that there are only weeks, not months, until rebuffing the pressure on the US government to publicly call for a ceasefire becomes untenable, sources told CNN.
Particularly jarring to Biden and his national security team, two sources familiar with the matter said, were Israeli airstrikes this week that targeted a refugee camp in northern Gaza, resulting in grim scenes of widespread destruction and deaths.
Biden has told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that the relentless images of Palestinian women and children being pulled from rubble could start to narrow Israel’s ability to move forward with its current operation, according to senior administration officials.
And that isn’t just limited to IDF’s operation in Gaza: In a call with Netanyahu on Sunday, Biden told the prime minister he was concerned about the surge in violence against Palestinians by Israeli settlers in the West Bank and was emphatic that that the attacks had to stop, according to a source briefed on the conversation.
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I guarantee that Israel funding is so important to him that either it will happen without congress or they'll make concessions to republicans to get it done.
Urban warfare against an entrenched enemy is a slow process. For example, recently it took Russia three months to completely capture Mariupol despite a willingness to inflict civilian casualties and disregard international opinion. Israel is much more constrained in both ways. I hope they have a plan for reaching their objectives quickly enough - a premature ceasefire would mean many people dead but very little accomplished.
Israeli leaders understand that, but they had to take internal politics into account as well. "We're not going to invade Gaza because we want to avoid international condemnation" would not have been acceptable to the majority of the people even if it were a good idea. I'm worried that this might have pushed them towards a course of action that they won't be able to complete successfully.
(I also wonder if in a perverse way, pressure to finish the war quickly actually leads to more civilian casualties. People's emotions don't process numbers very well, so a shorter but bloodier war may hurt Israel's international relations less than a longer but less bloody one. This incentivizes acting quickly rather than taking the time to wait for better circumstances.)
For example, recently it took Russia three months to completely capture Mariupol despite a willingness to inflict civilian casualties and disregard international opinion. Israel is much more constrained in both ways.
Israel has killed roughly as many civilians in the last month as were killed in Ukraine throughout the entire conflict. It's preposterous to say Israel is more restrained in causing civilian casualties.
dropping support for biden because of this seems silly since biden is four years but the two supreme court justices that will almost certainly be picked in the next four years are forever.
I suspect Hamas, since they are the government of Gaza, gets first dibs on all the fuel and rocket building materials that goes into their territory; whatever they care to take off the top.
I imagine Israel will run out of a lot of things too if their funding gets shitcanned between Christofacist R. leadership wanting to dismantle the IRS and Dems who won't pass a package without funding Ukraine... Lack of supplies might soon be in vogue! Though I imagine the supply of dead children isn't something Israel will soon stop "providing."
How did you like Israel blowing up that convoy of ambulances today? Haven't seen you around but have been on pins on needles to hear how dying, injured civilians being shipped to Egypt for care deserve to be exploded. 3..2..1. Hamas!