I would take it a step further. Biden has put sanctions on Israeli settlers for the first time in American history.
With the construction of a port, Biden is establishing a US military presence in Gaza, which I’m not aware of ever having happened there.
Does that excuse four months of inaction oops I mean active military aid? Fuck no.
Is that driven to some extent by political calculus related to the support he’s losing from progressives? Absolutely yes. To what degree, I have no idea, but I suspect it’s pretty large. It would be nice if he were doing it because innocent people including little children were dying in a country-wide indiscriminate slaughter.
How does that square with $10 billion worth of aid that we’re still trying to give to Israel? As Sanders points out, it doesn’t.
But even with all those mitigating factors in play, Joe Biden is showing signs of being the first American president who might potentially want to stop the infernal bargain the United States has had going with Israel for many, many generations.
I get the idea of having some skepticism about him, simply because he’s an American leader, and because of the grim reality of his full-throated support for Israel up until a couple of weeks ago. But it still looks to me like support for Joe Biden is the most realistic glimmer of hope of divorcing the US military budget from Israel’s bloody little hands that’s come along for a long, long time. If you’re refusing to support Biden outright because of this issue (and specifically in this election against Donald “finish the problem” Trump), I would say to look again.
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While I fully on board with the uncommitted protest, i still believe Joe would be better suited to stopping the killings than Trump would be.
Continue to protect, but please don’t make things worse there by not voting or worse. Voting for Trump in Nov.
Oh, definitely. Voting for Trump would be like trying to put out a fire with gasoline.
I would take it a step further. Biden has put sanctions on Israeli settlers for the first time in American history.
With the construction of a port, Biden is establishing a US military presence in Gaza, which I’m not aware of ever having happened there.
But even with all those mitigating factors in play, Joe Biden is showing signs of being the first American president who might potentially want to stop the infernal bargain the United States has had going with Israel for many, many generations.
I get the idea of having some skepticism about him, simply because he’s an American leader, and because of the grim reality of his full-throated support for Israel up until a couple of weeks ago. But it still looks to me like support for Joe Biden is the most realistic glimmer of hope of divorcing the US military budget from Israel’s bloody little hands that’s come along for a long, long time. If you’re refusing to support Biden outright because of this issue (and specifically in this election against Donald “finish the problem” Trump), I would say to look again.
Very well said. Right now we are upset but picking the poison that kills less seems like the wise choice.