WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden expressed support Friday for Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer after the senator called for new elections in Israel, the latest sign that the U.S. relationship with its closest Middle East ally is careening toward fracture over the war in Gaza.
Schumer, a Jewish Democrat from New York, sent tremors through both countries this week when he said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost his way” and warned that “Israel cannot survive if it becomes a pariah” as Palestinian casualties continue to grow.
“He made a good speech,” Biden said in the Oval Office during a meeting with Ireland’s prime minister. “I think he expressed serious concerns shared not only by him but by many Americans.”
Let’s see a US sponsored UN resolution.
It’s all PR until this happens
I’ll take us just not vetoing one.
Instead, we’ll sit there with our boats getting fired at to defend people that don’t actually want our help.
Have you listened to them?
They think what we say doesn’t matter, so let’s just exit from the scenario.
We pull our ships back, and just let the consequences of their actions happen.
I give it less than a week before they’re begging for our help again.
Honestly, that would be a really good image.
Netanyahu on his knees, begging for help before we give it.
Make it a caveat for help
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its not like Netanyahu is the only genocidal maniac in Iraeli government, either.
It’s not like he’s been a genocidal maniac for decades and still got elected multiple times already
Not sure where you learned to negotiate, seems like nowhere, but if you pull your own leverage how do you negotiate?
Israel has everything it needs right now to carpet bomb all of Palestine a dozen times over before cutting off US support alters it’s defensive posture in the slightest.
You’ll never hear this stuff from Republicans. That’s another big differentiator between Republican and Democrat. Republicanism will destroy freedom if they continue to win unchecked.
What you say is true, a lot of potential voters are not seeing this as a change of heart, but rather a theatrical distancing from an unpopular issue (perpetrating genocide).
Republicanism will destroy freedom if they continue to win unchecked.
Then the people who would refuse to vote for Biden in 2024 if he cuts off weapon shipments need to think long and hard which one is more important to them.
Oh look, criticizing biden and showing him we meant business in the primaries actually worked.
Like its supposed to, All you fucking mouth breathing fucktards that were out there crying “DONT BE MEAN TO BIDY IT MAKE TRUMPY STRONK”
Now if he follows up stopping weapon deliveries to Israel, it’d be perfect.
The crazy part to me is how there’s all this focus on the obligations of progressives and leftists to compromise while ignoring the supposed reason why. If Biden would lose support for cutting off weapon shipments that means there are people who voted for Biden in 2020 but refuse to do so in 2024 because they want to support genocide.
Those are the people who deserve the lectures, shame and endless repetition of the “vote blue no matter who” mantra. Those people are not holding up their end of the bargain. They demand compromise yet yield nothing in return. While whining when Republicans do the exact same shit.
We all know what generation and ethnicity I’m talking about.
My write in vote for “Palestinian Genocide Victims” for the democratic presidential nominee worked. You’re welcome everyone.
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Schumer, a Jewish Democrat from New York, sent tremors through both countries this week when he said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost his way” and warned that “Israel cannot survive if it becomes a pariah” as Palestinian casualties continue to grow.
“One would expect Sen. Schumer to respect Israel’s elected government and not undermine it,” Netanyahu’s political party Likud said in a statement.
Biden’s comments reflect the evolution of his views on the war, which began when Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, killing 1,200 Israelis.
The latest challenge to the U.S.-Israeli relationship is Israel’s plan to pursue Hamas into Rafah, a city in southern Gaza where displaced Palestinians have gathered to avoid fighting in the north.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaking from Vienna, said “we have to see a clear and implementable plan” to safeguard civilians from an Israeli incursion.
Associated Press writers Julia Frankel in Jerusalem, Matt Lee in Vienna and Darlene Superville in Washington contributed to this report.
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Nothing to do with the content, it’s simply a matter of Biden not wanting to undercut the Democratic lead in the Senate.
I guarantee Biden will stop wagging his finger at Netanyahu when the US election is over.
Of course. Biden will be too busy blocking the next rail strike in 2025 to care about what progressives and leftists think about Israel.
The US intention to build a naval pier and deliver humanitarian aid into Gaza is in direct conflict with Israel’s stated goal of eliminating Hamas. If neither side changes their course then things are going to get spicy in the next 60 days or so.
By “Hamas” do you mean “the civilian population of Gaza?” Because I’m not sure how Hamas could possibily make use of a peir that is built and controlled exclusively by the US Navy to deliver humanitarian supplies.
The aid that will be delivered into Gaza will 100% be used to support Hamas, it’s inevitable. Since Israel’s stated goal is the elimination of Hamas regardless of cost or consequence, even to civilians, that means US efforts to support civilians runs contrary to what Israel wants.
Two more thing are inevitable:
- US Service members being attacked by Israel.
2 .US Service members being attacked by Hamas.
This thing is going to be turbo-fan propelled shit show.
Since Israel’s stated goal is the elimination of Hamas regardless of cost or consequence, even to civilians, that means US efforts to support civilians runs contrary to what Israel wants.
So you do mean their goal is eliminating the civilian population of Gaza, then. That is the direct result of the goal as you describe it, there’s no ambiguity or “well maybe a few will survive” waffling.
Let US Service members get attacked by Israel, maybe they’ll learn something from hitting someone capable of seriously hitting them back.
I saw something today that said the pier is going right at the end of Israel’s Gaza highway…
Israel has been supplying food and medicine to the people of Gaza since day one although I can tell that doesn’t make it into your news feed.
