An increasing number of Americans want Joe Biden to encourage Israel to stop military actions in Gaza; and Mr. Biden’s handling of the situation is now down to its lowest levels yet.
In the poll, conducted before Iran’s drone and missile attack on Israel, there wasn’t much clamor among the U.S. public for U.S. military action against Iran, were Iran to strike Israel. More would instead have the U.S. support Israel’s next actions.
We are way past the stage of ‘encouraging’ Israel to stop. The US needs to impose sanctions and cut all access to funding and weapons.
Biden should first hold the IDF accountable for International law violations that were explicitly prohibited with the sale of US provided munitions.
I doubt the guy that’s taken an additional $1.4m since December from AIPAC is gonna do anything
Don’t confuse the Israeli people with Netanyahu. He is unfavorable in their eyes as well.
What does that have to do with Biden taking millions from AIPAC?
The American Israeli Political Action Committee?
Do… Do you know what that stands for?
Yes I do, and my original comment was along the lines of the guy that’s taken millions from them will not ask Israel to stand down.
I think we need to dust off the “How to Orchestrate a Coup” playbook.
You may as well. You might need it if Trump wins in November.
Centrists will just assume they’re all Russian shills, like they do with anyone that dislikes genocide.
All those “centrists” who checks notes want to avoid an objectively worse person for both Gaza as well as our own country. Right.
Rising numbers of Americans say Biden should encourage Israel to stop Gaza actions
How is this inconsistent with wanting to avoid an objectively worse person?
“Stop supporting genocide” is not the same thing as “I support Trump,” no matter how much pro-genocide centrists try to conflate the two.
Shill or not, the borderline obsessive demand for this particular linguistic compliance feels like it isn’t done in good faith
“Encourage” with a decapitation strike against Israeli leadership.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
And compared to last October, there are fewer Democrats and independents today who say the U.S. should send weapons and supplies to Israel.
Half the country believes the threat of terrorism will increase for both Israel and Americans as a result of the conflict.
Finally, underlining the importance of all this: most say how this matter is handled reflects on many things, including the U.S.’ morals and principles, as well as its security and strategic interests.
On the heels of the most recent inflation report, and the stock market drop that ensued, the months-long run-up of optimism about the economy has stalled for now.
Moreover, when the bulk of Americans who think things in the country aren’t going well are asked why that is, they say it’s the economy, more so than wars and events overseas.
This CBS News/YouGov survey was conducted with a nationally representative sample of 2,399 U.S. adult residents interviewed between April 9-12, 2024.
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while I still would have preferred staying OUT of this conflict,
You were in this conflict since the day you were born - didn’t 9/11 terach you anything?
“Encourage”?
Really?
That’s the shitty, limp-wristed, liberal weasel-speak language they chose to use?
Israel attacked an embassy in a country that they are trying to occupy more land in (I’m referring to Syria in this case). Biden is trying to get the US in an unjustifiable war with Iran.
Correct me of I’m wrong but isn’t starting unjustifiable wars in an election year a giant red flag for fascism? The Democratic excuse of “at least we are not [insert_opponent_name_here]” is finally starting to catch up with us.
Biden has been encouraging Israel to show restraint from the beginning. He has set conditions on arms delivered. He is slow-walking arms deliveries. He is also getting strong criticism for not helping Israel enough.
Biden bypassed the need for Congressional approval to make sure Israel got weapons ASAP. Two weeks ago he arranged to send them billions in fighter jets and over 1,800 2,000lb bombs. There are stockpiles of US arms flagged for US use that are inside Israel that Biden has allowed Israel to pull from. “Officially it’s US equipment for US use,” a former senior Pentagon official said, “but on the other hand, in an emergency, who’s to say we’re not going to give them the keys to the warehouses?”
The US is also using loopholes to keep over 100 arms sales under the radar, including thousands of bombs. “This doesn’t just seem like an attempt to avoid technical compliance with US arms export law, it’s an extremely troubling way to avoid transparency and accountability on a high-profile issue,” Ari Tolany, director of the security assistance monitor at the Centre for International Policy thinktank, said" and added “They’re very much borrowing from the Trump playbook to dodge congressional oversight”.
No matter your stance on what Biden should be doing, why do you call that “slow-walking arms deliveries”? Seems like you’re trying to rewrite the history of how strongly and swiftly Biden has supported Israel - aka doing election season damage control regardless of evidence.
Biden is going to further jeopardize his reelection chances just so arms manufacturers can profit more off genocide.
Say what you want about the capitalist class, but they certainly have class solidarity.
I don’t get why he doesn’t do this for Ukraine instead.
There’s no equivalent existing funds or contracts and Republicans keep blocking it because Trump wants to help his buddy Putin in exchange for favors
Apparently Biden can just do it without Congress though.
Sales, not donations, specifically
They already added Ukraine to the lend lease list, Biden could let them use the credit card.
We don’t have a base full of munitions in Ukraine that we can just give Zelenskyy access to.
But we could…
Except every time Ukraine attempted to join NATO, Russia attacks them. A nation at war is ineligible for NATO admission. It’s no accident. Putin does not want to share a border with a NATO ally.
They don’t need to be in NATO for us to store weapons there. We have plenty of bases in non NATO countries. We’ve even had bases in countries the Russians invaded. (Georgia, 2008)
But also, NATO doesn’t actually have that as a hard rule. There’s been debate about it and NATO Members are wary of such a member pulling everyone into a war right away, but there’s nothing stopping them from doing it.
We don’t have a base full of munitions in Ukraine
No, Ukraine just sits right next to the largest military logistics machine in human history on it’s western border.
I agree with you, but likely because it could escalate with russia and russia has nukes and aren’t poor brown people who “don’t matter”.
My guess is there’s no Ukrainian equivalent to AIPAC. Joe Biden is the top recipient of AIPAC funds over the last 34 years, more than doubling 2nd place with a total of 5,736,701 received.
Biden is going to further jeopardize his reelection chances
We’ve all seen this movie - this is the part where the big bad humiliates the (supposed) “good cop,” and now “good cop” is going to hand over to “bad cop.”
He didn’t need to set conditions, the Leahy Law already does that. His conditions were a smoke screen so Israel could self certify they aren’t doing anything and people would be mollified. The law already bans weapons exports to countries with credible accusations of human rights abuses. And we’ve been past that point for months now.
Dude you’re wrong in so many different directions that I don’t even know where to begin.
Strange that you can just completely lie and get upvoted. Biden has done everything Netanyahu asked him to and there are no conditions on arms deliveries.
Joe Biden himself has said he unconditionally supports israel.
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You do it all the time. I don’t see why you suddenly have a problem with it.
Quite an accusation. Have specific proof to make it credible? Because at first glance it seems like an incredibly childish response. As you’ve written it it’s functionally just “NO YOU!” With evidence it could be salvaged into a valid point poorly made. Although it should be noted you don’t even attempt to deal with the substance of their argument, opting instead to just insult them.
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Fair enough, that’s an understandable mistake. Notice I still got downvoted though.
Maybe consider backing up your accusations when you get aggressive before you get offended when you’re called out on a lack of proof. Burden of proof is on the accuser. Edit: Nice edit to delete half of the above comment and make it appear as if this isn’t responding to your specific insult.
That’s simple; because I don’t.
Opposing israel doesn’t actually require you to be a pathological liar. That’s only when people defend israel.
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As his history shows, Linkerbaan has one interest: talk shit about the US and its president. I know what I think of single/wedge-issue posters who queue flood dozens articles a week like it’s their job.
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Biden has been encouraging Israel to show restraint from the beginning.
He has done nothing of the sort.
He has set conditions on arms delivered. He is slow-walking arms deliveries.
What hogwash. He has circumvented congress to sell Netanyahu weapons with no strings attached. Weapons he knew would be used to commit genocide.
3.8 million pounds of bombs in only one of five arm sales bypassing congress is definitely restraint and slow walking.
