In sharpest criticism of Israel to date, US president says he is pushing for a ‘hostage ceasefire’ and that there are ‘a lot of innocent people who are in trouble and dying, and it’s gotta stop’
US President Joe Biden has suggested that Israel’s military response in Gaza has been “over the top” and said he is seeking a “sustained pause in the fighting” to help ailing Palestinian civilians.
“I’m of the view, as you know, that the conduct of the response in the Gaza Strip has been over the top,” Biden told reporters at the White House.
He added that he had been pushing for a deal to normalise Saudi Arabia-Israel relations, increased humanitarian aid for Palestinian civilians and a temporary pause in fighting to allow the release of hostages taken by Hamas.
“I’m pushing very hard now to deal with this hostage ceasefire,” Biden said. “There are a lot of innocent people who are starving, a lot of innocent people who are in trouble and dying, and it’s gotta stop.”
The funding needs to stop and another main objective should be to get Netanyahu out of office and in a jail cell, otherwise he will just continue, even if sanctioned.
I prefer death penalty, no imaginable thing in the world can punish him for what he has done, but we should try our best. Controversial I know, but imagine if you were a Palestinian or know someone close who was, would you believe jailing him is fair? He would be out in a few months probably as well, and the jail cell would just be a quarantine in a palace or something like that
Israel has enough stockpiles to carry on regardless. If Biden were to have a moment of clarity and end the deals it would give other nations the opportunity to do something similar though.
Israel can carry on in the short term, but sure as hell not in the long term. Apartheid is inherently unsustainable, so Israel needs the rest of the world in its back in one way or another to keep Palestinians down.
He'd have told the nazis "hey, please cool it guys! You're going a bit overboard!" and then sent them a lot of weapons and money on behalf of his owner donors.
You know I'm starting to think this Hitler guy is not the valuable ally he seemed to be. Better wait a few months and try to nudge him in the right direction in the meantime.
Lol if anyone here is saying that the US government in WW2 acted quicker than Biden is now, it's important to note that the US waited 2 years to join WW2.
You know what else is over the top, you evil old fuck? Cutting off 350 million in aid to refugees because Israel lied and claimed relief workers were HAMAS.
Biden is banking on his sycophants taking him at his utterly worthless word.
You know, aside from there being litttle merit to their claims and all. Israel is about as trustworthy as North Korea when it comes to their systematic ethnic cleansing.
But let's assume they were telling the truth, as genocidal ethnic cleansing monsters are prone to doing.
13 employees of 30,000 were accused of aiding HAMAS. That's 13 / 30000, or 0.0043% of the employees. Do tell me how that's sufficient justification to bar aid for millions.
Hint: It isn't, unless you are using it as a pretext.
It really doesn't show anything graphic. It looks like a mortar or something hits the street right in front of an ambulance. But it cuts away so fast that you can't tell what is going on.
US President Joe Biden has suggested that Israel’s military response in Gaza has been “over the top” and said he is seeking a “sustained pause in the fighting” to help ailing Palestinian civilians.
He added that he had been pushing for a deal to normalise Saudi Arabia-Israel relations, increased humanitarian aid for Palestinian civilians and a temporary pause in fighting to allow the release of hostages taken by Hamas.
The remarks, some of Biden’s sharpest public criticism to date of the government of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, come as the Democratic president has come under increasing domestic pressure to press Israel to stop fighting.
In the aftermath of Israel’s initial attacks, Biden was criticised for making remarks describing the death of innocent Palestinians as “the price of waging a war.”
Saudi Arabia has told the US there will be no diplomatic relations with Israel unless an independent Palestinian state is recognised on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem, and Israeli “aggression” on the Gaza Strip stops, its foreign ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.
Explaining his response to the crisis, Biden appeared to mix up the details of his diplomatic efforts, calling Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi the leader of Mexico.
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Man Biden has a campaign to abandon him (and depending on who you ask vote for Trump) among Michigan Muslims, a critical and traditionally democrat-voting demographic in a battleground state. And he's losing the young voters who won him 2020 by the minute. With the way things are going Trump has the advantage with his fanatically loyal voter base.