The US shifted from a veto to abstaining, which is as close as the US is likely going to get to voting against Israel. That’s actually a huge shift, as soft as it might seem.
Tough for Biden to balance between:
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Leaning too heavily into Israel and siding with genocide.
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Leaning too heavily against, and being accused of being pro-Hamas.
Worse, if Biden withdraws all aid to Israel and then Israel is hit with another terrorist attack, manufactured or not, that’s the end of Biden.
Within the electorate resides Jewish Americans who still largely support Israel by the polling, and the progressives and Palestinian Americans (a fat smaller voting bloc).
Best Biden is going to manage in toeing the line is singling out Netanyahu (who himself is unpopular in Israel) instead of Israel itself and actions like this.
The risk obviously being that if Biden loses this election, the guy who wouldn’t just indirectly but likely directly commit genocide against Palestinians would come in and you certainly wouldn’t hear the words, “indiscriminate bombing” from Trump’s facial sphincter…
if Biden withdraws all aid to Israel and then Israel is hit with another terrorist attack, manufactured or not, that’s the end of Biden.
Crazy that it’s somehow Biden’s fault if they get attacked again. Imagine if Netanyahu lost his power because someone else his the US with a terror attack.
I don’t see how it would be the end of Biden anyway, he’s not responsible for the security of Israel.
I mean, okay, technically you’re not wrong; but it would affect his performance in what all involved seem to expect will be a closely contested election… So it could (and likely would) literally be the end of the Biden Administration.
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Everyone forgot about Ukraine already
Useless and boring. If Hamas wants to they could end it at any time, but they don’t care about the people who voted them into power so they won’t.
How many of the thousands of children Israel has killed in Palestine were members of Hamas? How is it Hamas’ fault that those children were killed by Israel?
You could argue , that it wasn’t a terrorist attack on Israel that started this. Since Hamas is the legitimate government of Gaza, you could argue they declared war, they invaded. A response to a country invading is very different from a response to a terrorist attack
Is the appropriate response “kill over 10,000 children?”
No they can’t. They aren’t the ones in someone else’s home.
Jews came from Judea.
So did Palestinians. Doesn’t make it okay to to go into someone else’s home, destroy everything, and tell them they can end the destruction of their home any time they want.
