The most relevant fact about the Biden administration’s current position on the war against Gaza is this: There is no Israeli war crime too extreme for Joe Biden to consider pausing, to say nothing of cutting off, the flow of U.S. weapons and financial support for Israel’s war of annihilation. On Tuesday, the Senate passed an extraordinary $14 billion in additional military aid for Israel to continue its occupation and bombing of the Palestinians of Gaza. Biden remains defiant in rejecting global demands for an immediate cessation of Israel’s military assault on a starving, overwhelmingly defenseless population. Not only has Biden flatly rejected suggestions that he use the threat of halting military sales to Israel, his administration is currently preparing a new shipment of powerful munitions to Tel Aviv.
A recent U.S. intelligence estimate indicated that Israel’s current weapons stockpiles only enables it to wage war against Gaza for an additional 19 weeks, unless Washington sends more ammunition. The fact that Biden has outright refused to use his leverage as Israel’s arms dealer is a stark indication that the occasional public platitudes, offered by U.S. officials and numerous media leaks about Biden’s mounting frustration with Netanyahu, are little more than a re-election campaign ploy.
The reason Gaza has become a domestic electoral problem for Biden is because of activism, especially from Palestinian Americans. The White House seems to believe it can still salvage the Arab American vote and desperately hopes the specter of another Donald Trump term will tilt the balance in Biden’s favor regardless of his atrocious role in an ongoing genocide. Whatever happens in the November election, it should never be forgotten that it was Biden, not those Americans who oppose Israel’s war and the U.S. facilitation of it, that bolstered Trump’s chances. That is entirely on Biden and the Democratic Party establishment.
Was high school civics so difficult? Congress allocates, the President administrates. The President can’t set conditions on Foreign Aid either. Otherwise, Trump wouldn’t have been impeached for asking Ukraine for a favor before they got weapons that congress already allocated.
Biden bypassed Congress in December to give israel more Genocide bombs
And congress didn’t say a thing about it when they came back from break. And it wasn’t bombs.
You’re right the term I should have used is explosives as mortar and tank shells are propelled explosives and not dropped.
I will fix that.
The missles in the Iron Dome use US supplied rocket motors.
Do you need to mock people you disagree with?
Also: bully pulpit. Biden sets the Party agenda.
Bernie Sanders tried to condition Isreal aid in the Senate. It failed. Again, Congress allocates.
Biden leads the Party, not Bernie.
Biden isn’t a Senator any longer, Bernie is. Biden can not force his will on Congress. If he could, he would have had a much easier three years. He said he would consider a condition on Israeli aid. Bernie tried and got very few votes. Allocation is still pending in the House.
Frankly, the Intercept is full of hit pieces on Biden. Makes people angry and wanting to click more. But, their basis of fact is questionable
Biden leads the Party. Biden sets the Party’s agenda. The Party overrode Bernie’s conditional aid amendment because Biden would just go around them to provide aid to Israel if they tried to limit it in any way, and so instead of create intra-Party conflict they just obeyed the edicts of the Party leader. Bernie is just a Senator. The President leads the Party.
It’s like you don’t believe politics exists and it’s all just bureaucratic formalism.
The President does not control the Senate. You can imagine what you’d like, but that is a fact.
The President controls his Party. This is also a fact. If you honestly think that the Senate would have passed a veto proof majority for Israel if Biden opposed funding the genocide you’re a clown.
Yes they do whenever it makes them look bad or questions Biden
I fucking give up on American education. All these dumb asses acting like Biden is personally signing checks.
For the children in the back, “CONGRESS holds the purse strings, the President doesn’t have a choice in spending that money.”
He’s begging Congress to send money to Israel!! He’s also the leader of the party for half of congress and can VETO the fucking spending bill.
Clearly you don’t know jackshit about how bills work
He’s gonna lose us the election with this horribleness, and then we are all trebly fucked.
Yup, and instead of blaming Biden for being a bad president, liberals will blame voters for not voting for genocide.
He’s not even a terrible president, and would be even better if he wasn’t constantly thwarted by conservatives. But he is dead wrong on this, and somehow does not see the consequences of the optics he is creating.
His team truly believes that Democrats will vote blue-no-matter-who and that they don’t need to appeal to their base at all, because Trump is running. Instead it seems that Biden is focusing on appealing to the right to siphon Republicans away from Trump.
For the Democratic base, this is a lose/lose situation. If Biden wins he will have proven that appealing to the base is entirely unnecessary and will use this as a reason to shift even farther to the right. If Biden loses then Trump wins. We’re so fucked.
Democrats already proved this when Hillary was running.
Hillary lost. They proved blue-no-matter-who doesn’t work and refused to learn from this mistake.
I’m so confused by this argument when Trump just said he’d abandon NATO allies.
Do you honestly think Trump would do anything differently with Israel? And we know he’d abandon Ukraine to Russia.
I honestly think Democrats would meaningfully oppose Trump, as opposed to Biden who they have lined up behind to support Israel’s genocide.
What specifically would they do to oppose him?
Probably similar to how they actually wanted to oppose Trump’s border policy but shut up about it really fast when it became Bidens immigration policy. Biden does thing that if Trump tried them, democrats would fight.
Is your stance then that Republican presidents don’t support Israel?
No, because I’m not fucking stupid.
My stance is that Democrats oppose Republicans, and so if Trump were the one supporting this genocide Democrats would oppose him.
Yeah, he has said he wont support US allies militarily, that includes israel, no? I would vote for him for literally only that reason, attempted coups be damned.
A recent U.S. intelligence estimate indicated that Israel’s current weapons stockpiles only enables it to wage war against Gaza for an additional 19 weeks
For all the people who claimed that israel doesn’t need the US for their Genocide, this is a pretty important indication that the bombs used to kill Palestinians aren’t being summoned out of thin air.
If Biden actually cared he would use these weapons as leverage to demand a two state solution.
Anyone who actually cares needs to know the two state solution isn’t real. It’s a red herring.
There’s only a one state solution: a multi-ethnic and multi-religious democracy, from the river to the sea.
There’s also a zero state solution, which is likely. Israel may succeed in ending Palestine, but they will have sacrificed any long-term security they have. If foreign aid ever stops, which I’d say is highly likely within the next 50 years, the rest of the middle east will destroy Israel. Unless the Israeli government can be convinced to pivot on their actions, this is probably an unavoidable scenario.
If Biden actually cared
Speaking of which, I also fear another Sept. 11.
The Houthi’s are doing an amazing job by blockading the Red Sea. They’ve disrupted the entirety of global trade without killing a single person. And it’s putting a ton of pressure on America and Europe to actually do something about their Genocide.
The Arab world has been doing an outstanding job on not targeting civilians but military targets.
A few drones in certain parts of indonesia hitting ships, and we have a world trade collapse very quickly
Good thing America is installing a military dictator in Indonesia
“America’s Fair-Haired Boy,” Notorious Mass Murderer, on Brink of Indonesian Presidency
Or maybe use the weapons to demand Hamas release the hostages? Which is exactly what he’s doing.
Oh, you forgot about the hostages?
Besides holding back on weapons means Israel just uses less accurate home-made bombs. Take out a city block instead of just one building.
They’re going to get those hostages back one way or another. Maybe tell your Hamas friends to release them so Israel won’t go into Rafah?
We’re entering the endgame now, so how many people will Hamas let die before they come out of the tunnels and fight like men?
Israel literally kills their own hostages and doesnt give one shit about it. To be clear, Hamas is the good guys in this war. And the idea that the modern day equivalent of the nazis would stop doing their genocide over a few hostages they freely blow up themselves is simply brain dead.
Israel blew those people up. They are gone.
Israel killed three hostages wearing a white flag lol.
The IDF doesn’t care about hostages. Israel wants to kill all hostages as it’s the only leverage against them.
Never heard the term friendly fire before? It’s a war soldiers fuck up, bad things happen.
There’s a reason for the expression “War is Hell,” children. God damn Hamas for starting this war.
New video from GDF explains how the IDF intentionally shot many of their own civilians with israeli witness testimonies.
LMAO, thank you for finding the most succinct way possible to prove you dont have a clue what youre talking about - “hamas started this war”.
Regardless of one’s position on the conflict, there isn’t a realistic way that Israel is going to lose a conflict with Hamas, or to be unable to conduct its operations, whether-or-not it gets aid from the US. Aid just isn’t a decisive input in the conflict.
A recent U.S. intelligence estimate indicated that Israel’s current weapons stockpiles only enables it to wage war against Gaza for an additional 19 weeks
Literally from the article.
Also maybe other countries would help Palestine if it wasn’t for America’s meddling in the region. They put aircraft carriers specifically so nobody comes to the Palestinians’ aid.
No other countries are looking for war with a country that has unlimited US support.
Would it only be Lebanon and Yemen if the US pulled support for Israel?
Because that’s the solution. Fuck Israel.
