Biden Claims Israel Isn't Starving Gazans. Rights Groups Say 'It Is Clear as Day'
Biden Claims Israel Isn't Starving Gazans. Rights Groups Say 'It Is Clear as Day' | Common Dreams
This is genocide denial plain and simple.
Also remember that whenever anyone tries to tell you that you shouldn't be bringing up Biden's genocide support because it might hurt his chances in the US election, they are also doing genocide denial. They are genocide deniers.
They may not be denying that the genocide is happening, they're just denying that we should talk about it. They're denying its importance.
And sure, Trump would probably be worse at this, so vote. But if Biden genuinely needs widespread genocide denial to win then that is not only not an acceptable thing to ask of voters, it is also unhinged. People know about the genocide, they know Biden is dragging his feet on the issue and pretending that's not happening just to protect him makes his case look extremely weak.
If you really think that no amount of denouncement and excoriation will influence him to stop supporting genocide then again, you are saying awful things about him without realising it.
Why does Biden support genocide?
Because he's a self-proclaimed Zionist and the end goal of Zionism has always been genocide. Now, why is he a Zionist? shrugs
Because the calculation has been made, he will lose more votes from people who support Israel than people who support Palestine because the first ones don't mind the alternative which will support Israel even more and the second ones will be in deep shit if Trump gets elected so they have no choice.
Are we always going to be prisoners to these types of choices?
That's what they're thinking at any rate. Unfortunately in Pennsylvania it doesn't seem to have been a campaign issue at all for the Pro Palestinian congresswoman and the Arab American demographics in the rust are what got Biden over the line there last time. There's a serious question as to whether the rust belt is now in play again because of this.
There’s almost 6 million reasons why.
The man is from an era long past, when Israel was the USA's fault and responsibility, and when it's presence was necessary to defend against other world powers.
Because certain closely knit ethnicity has significant power and wealth in US economy, so neither Republicans or Democrats want to fuck with that setup?
I wouldn't say ethnic group.
To be more specific, the lobby group, AIPAC, has immense political power.
Black people?
Why did he build the pier for aid?
To give the appearance of caring while not actually trying to improve the situation
Well, true. Pretty much everything he's done pro Palestine has been 99% performative. But my point was that it's bizarre to claim that Israel is not starving Palestinians while also building a pier because aid (including food) isn't getting rhrough
He also claimed there's no genocide
Id trust the people on the streets there before any out of touch government second guesser
Yeah, but in typical c-suite fashion they (e.g., Biden in this case) listen but don’t hear or care what the people who are actually in the shit of it all think/say because agendas.
Says the guy who literally built a fucking pier to delivery food because Israel won't let trucks go through on the road.
To all those people who keep saying that in order to not have Trump back in 2025, everyone must suck it up and vote Biden, this is why that just can't happen.
Sure Trump is bad in many ways but Biden's insistence on helping Netenyahu no matter what will lose him the election.
I'm not making a case for Trump, btw. Both things can be bad at the same time. For people who are seeing Gazans die for no reason, Biden cannot come back into office again. Does that mean we want Trump? Of course not, and that's why voting for anyone else makes sense.
If voting for anyone else means you're voting for Trump, so be it!
People who get anxious at criticism of Biden should dedicate their energy to pressure the US government to grow some brain cells and stop behaving like lunatics, not at berating everyone who expresses angst at their complicity with genocide.
Democratic governments aren't some force of nature that will do as they please no matter the consequences. You, as their constituents, can signal to them that their actions may make them lose the next election. If you want young people to vote for Biden, what's more likely to do the trick, to endlessly argue with the few of them you'll find on Lemmy, or to have Biden stop ruining his own image for no gain?
Voting for a third party, especially if you are in a key swing state, is a bad idea. If you are a registered democrat you’ll have to vote democrat to keep Biden.
Yeah if people are angry at Biden for this shit, they'll for sure be angry with trump because he wants them all killed too along with a litany of other shit that is clearly bad for America and the rest of the world. Voting for trump because you're mad at Biden's actions is like chopping your whole arm off because a finger got infected.
Not how US Elections work. Only the winner writes the laws, if you want election reform then vote Dem. If you want Trump, don't vote dem. Those are the only two options, voting third party does nothing to help. The cumulative sum of all EC Votes given to third party candidates in the USA for 47 years is 0, and we're risking a lot by not firmly establishing DNC leadership as the lesser evil.
Trump will be actively worse than Biden because he would bring the worst Israeli policies HERE.
Illegal invasion of Lebanon? Yeah, Trump wants that for Mexico.
So, yeah, that's what you're voting for if you don't vote Biden.
Israel is not only starving Gazans, they've BEEN starving Gazans for DECADES.
That's been the whole point of the blockade.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_the_Gaza_Strip