“As the president of the United States, you have power to change the course of history, and the responsibility to save lives right now,” the staffers wrote.

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    Taking from my comment on the other community where you posted this:

    Biden asked for one and reported Netanyahu said no.

    The headline sounds like he’s just dismissing his staffers

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      “Ok then stop sending bombs and using reaper drones to help them perform mass killings”

      “No can do chief, Bibi told me I need to keep doing all that.”

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      Considering the power that the US has over Israel, he pretty much is just dismissing his staffers.

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      That makes me feel better, but I wish he would put some weight behind it.

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      Even if IDF stops shooting, what really makes people believe Hamas will stop? I want an end to the violence as much as anyone else but I really don’t see a cease fire doing anything but giving Hamas time to rearm and plan their next massacre.

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    To be fair, i don’t think Israel is going to do a cease fire even if we yeet all the aid and support we promised them. Netty has been wanting this fight for… ages.

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      Well, if we yeet all the aid we send them, at least we won’t be facilitating a genocide in as many ways.

      That’s a start and a step worth taking.

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        Keep in mind, part of the reason we’ve given all this aid to Israel, historically, is precisely for that leverage it gives us.

        People are rolling in their graves that we’re not using it.

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    This was reported for having a misleading headline, however the headline on the post is the exact same as the headline on the article.

    I agree, the headline makes it sound like Biden was addressing the “500+ former staffers” when he was not, that’s an issue to take up with commondreams.org.

    If OP had editorialized the headline in a misleading fashion, I’d remove it. In this case they are accurately passing along the headline from the article.

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    Imperialists thinking they can puppeteer another imperialist. Maybe they’re right who knows.

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    Damn looks like there is ‘No Possibility’ that I will be voting for that cuck ever again.

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      His opponent will end the war in 24 hours! But you probably won’t like how he ends it…

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    Remember this blood is on the hands of anyone who voted for him and would vote for him again.

    Genocide is Biden’s legacy, hope it was worth saving “democracy”.

    Your downvotes are a witness against you and do not absolve you of your guilt.

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        But you voted for the guy who has been friends, worked with, and politically supported a Right-wing, ethnonationalist for over 40 years.

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      Sorry to disappoint you, but if the president was Trump or any other Republican your government would have been even firmer behind Israel, so it is a choice between a bad and a worse president.

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          Nope. Cold hard truth to your fucking pathetic attempt at putting Netty’s bloodthirst on Biden. You are beyond pathetic and frankly beyond stupid.

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      Biden did not cause the problems in Gaza, what are you on about? He’s not the one in charge of Israel’s actions. I am not a fan of him or a fan of sending aid to them, but this is just overdramatic.

      On top of that, if people didn’t vote for Biden then we would have Trump doing the same plus a bunch of other worse shit on top of that. We have two choices everytime. All people can do is vote for the lesser of two evils and that’s what they did. If you wanna throw away your vote and help the objectively worse party win a presidential election again, that’s on you, but most sensible people understand the choice we are forced to make thanks to our shitty system.

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        Biden did not cause the problems in Gaza, what are you on about? He’s not the one in charge of Israel’s actions. I am not a fan of him or a fan of sending aid to them, but this is just overdramatic.

        No, he’s just the one supporting funding and arming Israel no matter what they do for decades and voting for him continued to enable Israel which inevitably led to this moment we’re at now.

        On top of that, if people didn’t vote for Biden then we would have Trump doing the same plus a bunch of other worse shit on top of that. We have two choices everytime. All people can do is vote for the lesser of two evils and that’s what they did. If you wanna throw away your vote and help the objectively worse party win a presidential election again, that’s on you, but most sensible people understand the choice we are forced to make thanks to our shitty system.

        Whataboutism.

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      Not voting for him again directly enables a guy that would do so much worse. Your stance lacks any understanding of the limits to our voting system.

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        How could it be worse than genocide for Palestinians?