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[–] 92 points 2 years ago (4 children)

There's been lots of misleading headlines on this, but this is the first time they didn't at least include the full quote in the article...

“We’ll continue to provide military assistance to Israel until they get rid of Hamas, but we have to be careful – they have to be careful,” Biden said. “The whole world’s public opinion can shift overnight, we can’t let that happen.”

He's not criticizing Netanyahu, and he's still saying he'll support him no matter what.

But for literal decades now Biden has been saying that to Israels government, and they've literally never listened, and Biden has never stopped supporting them.

Why the fuck are people acting like either is going to suddenly happen now?

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I find this so infuriating. How do they think this strategy gets rid of Hamas? Israel indiscriminately bombing Palestine is the best recruitment tool Hamas ever had. Why do world leaders with the best advisors money can pay espouse such nonsense. Is there anyone who seriously believes this?

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They don't believe it. It's just a talking point to cover for genocide. Nettanyahu, like all the right-wing authoritarian fucksticks before him, is about as attached to his excuses as the Navajo nation is to water polo (spoiler: they're not). It's just some bullshit to spout while you fucking murder people. If the excuse runs thin, fuck it, just make a new excuse, but this is the one they've spent decades cultivating by literally funding hamas.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Supporting Israel is not the same as supporting Netanyahu.

    Biden and Netanyahu have a decades-long relationship that has at times been strained. At the Monday evening reception, Biden said he once gifted Netanyahu a photo and wrote at the top: “I love you but I don’t agree with a damn thing you had to say.”

    “It’s about the same today,” Biden said, adding he’d “had my differences with some Israeli leadership.”

    Sounds like he's criticizing Netanyahu.

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    [–] 46 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    This is like 3 weeks over due. Cmon man

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Appreciate progress when it happens, even if it's late.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago

    So...

    You haven't seen any of the posts with his full quote where he doubles down on the US supporting them anyways?

    He's not mad at the genocide. He's mad Israel isnt hiding it well.

    He's been saying this to Israel for about 50 years now. They've never listened to him. And he's never stopped supporting them.

    People need to stop giving credit for shit he's not doing

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago

    “We’ll continue to provide military assistance to Israel until they get rid of Hamas, but we have to be careful – they have to be careful,” Biden said. “The whole world’s public opinion can shift overnight, we can’t let that happen.”

    What progress has Biden made? Fuck him.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    While I 100% agree with you, we don’t know the full story of what has happened behind closed doors. I’m hopeful that this is not the first time he has warned Israel that they’re being giant douches and the world is starting to hate you.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    He is still fucking supporting them, though!

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, but they're also our ally. I don't know why this alliance is so important, but maintaining alliances seems to be important for heads of state.

    I don't personally think it's a good reason, but there's a lot of unknown rationale we aren't privy to.

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    "Keep indiscriminately killing children and families 3 or 400 more times and we may not support you anymore!"

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Didnt the US just veto a cease fire agreement? How can the us president critisize indiscriminate bombing but veto an attempt to stop it?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    How can the us president critisize indiscriminate bombing but veto an attempt to stop it?

    Easy. Biden is simply posturing for purposes of damage control - the massive failure of the pro-Israeli propaganda machine has taken the US political establishment by complete surprise (it is probably also calculated to "distance" Biden from the predictable batshit pro-Israeli posturing GOP candidates are going to be oozing next year).

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    massive failure of the pro-Israeli propaganda machine has taken the US political establishment by complete surprise

    Can you elaborate more on this?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Israel used to have good propaganda to justify their war crimes. Recently they have dropped all pretense and now they just go

    "Yeah we want to genocide all Palestinians and steal their land, and America will support us no matter what".

    They're saying the quiet part out loud.

    Also all the IDF propaganda such as the 40 beheaded babies and the hospital base instantly being debunked has started to show just how much israel is lying to justify their colonialism.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    Biden basically said "I will always support israel no matter how much genocide they do, but the Europeans are starting to stop their support and the rest of the world hates israel with a passion now"

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/the-gospel-how-israel-uses-ai-to-select-bombing-targets

    Except the bombing isn’t indiscriminate. The IDF/war cabinet have a pretty good idea how many civilians they’ll have to murder* in order to kill Hamas members hiding amongst the populace.

    They’re leveraging AI to build ‘target packages’ using data from extensive drone and/or satellite footage. Locate a militant, track their movements, and the AI can roll back the footage and count how many people entered and left the building beforehand.

    Targeted killings like we saw in Jenin during this summer/fall are ethically and legally tenuous, but at least a hit squad doesn’t level entire buildings…

    *Yes, murder. If you know with strong confidence that your actions will kill someone/several someone’s, and do it anyway? That’s no longer ‘the fog of war caused an error’ it’s very deliberate act of violence aimed at the populace

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    [–] 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    "Just because we keep sending you bombs, doesn't mean you have to use them all!"

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago

    And who is enabling that indiscriminate bombing, Joey boy?

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Did he finally figure out that supporting Israel through this isn't a good look for him?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    He's a silent gen nursing home patient who's in the white house because our political system can't do any better. He needs to drop out of the race

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    Seems pretty coherent to me when I've watched his speeches. Depending on what news you pay attention to, they paint him as a bumbing baffon who's lost his mental facilities, which I don't think that's fair to say about someone unless that's actually happening (such as for trump).

    He does have a speech impediment though, which from what I understand he spent years trying to fix, so that's easy to chalk up to him losing his mental facilities if you take stuff out of context...

    What you could do instead of focusing on the fact that he's old, is talking about some of his shit policies, or the fact that he should step aside and let the new generation of leaders take over, ya know, ones who will actually be affected by the coming climate crisis, and other major world events ahead.

    I don't know why everyone is always so cavalier about causal agism.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Not worried about killing kids just worried how it will make him look.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    It's the neoliberal way.

    A few hundred dead Palestinian kids isn't going to worry a wealthy neoliberal. Not their kids, not their country.

    But "bombing targets going unbombed" fundamentally means "profits going unprofited" and that's an idea that brings a neoliberal out in a cold sweat.

    Ultimately, Biden's statement is just his part in the pantomime. He's doing the "left-wing neoliberal" thing where he does exactly the same horrific shit as the right-wing neoliberals, but he frowns while he does it.

    If he doesn't frown hard enough, he might lose the election, but it's not going to stop the children being blown up or the neoliberals profiting from it.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    2 months ago they cut off electricity, gas, food and water and now they lose support?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    So does he agree it is "indiscriminate bombing"? Because I think there is another words for it called "war crime"!

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    I'm so tired, so very tired of the theater of American politics using human lives as sacrificial pawns, all so that the song and dance can continue for time immortal. There's no end in sight, is there?

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    What about the shelling with White Phosphorus? Want to say anything about that?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Surely a sharp finger-wagging will get them to stop

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Bibi stepped in it by announcing that he out and out rejected the US proposal. Bibi also has no fan club among most American Jews.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Where are they getting those bombs?!!!! Fucking world governments.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    President Biden offered sharp criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government Tuesday, calling for a change to the approach embraced by Israel’s leadership — which Biden described as “the most conservative” in Israel’s history.

    The president said Israel was beginning to lose support around the world due to “indiscriminate bombing” in remarks made during a fundraiser in Washington, and urged Israel to seek a long-term solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

    He added that he warned Netanyahu about repeating mistakes made by the U.S. after 9/11, while reiterating his support for Israel’s mission to “take on Hamas.”


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