• ryper@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Netanyahu wouldn’t stop just because Biden cut off weapons shipments. At best the genocide would be paused for a couple of months until Trump took office and resumed shipments.

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      Two months without genocide is better than genocide. There’s no moral or humane reason not to exert every ounce of possible influence to stop this even if it ends up being temporary. I don’t think Biden has any idea how poorly history will judge him for his lack of action. He has the power in this relationship. And it’s infuriating that he has consistently refused to use it.

      And for an example of how unfair the world is: Trump will probably not be judged poorly, even when he inevitably makes things worse, because Trump doesn’t get the blame for the bad things he does, he gets rewarded. It’s not fair, it’s not right, but not much is these days.

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        In order for that to happen, he would first have to be supporting the genocide, which he is not.

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      2 days ago

      They don’t need it, but the US government happily provides it.

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    Why bother? The Palestinians stabbed him in the back. Let them deal with the face-eating leopards they conjured up.

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      Because people’s lives are on the line.

    • Soup@lemmy.world
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      Because it is still his job and because they need all the goodwill they can get if they want a sliver of a chance in 2028.