• anticolonialist@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    If this wasnt election year and Super Tuesday wasn’t coming up and Biden wasn’t trying to save face they wouldn’t have gotten a thing. Instead of dropping aid and trying to change the narrative they could should have forced Israel to step down and allowed the existing aid that’s already on the ground to pass through to Palestine

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      8 months ago

      The US can’t force Israel to do anything. They are a reasonably wealthy state with significant military prowess and supplies in their own right.

      I keep seeing this narrative here on the fediverse that somehow it’s all Biden’s fault because if we didn’t send them weapons, the whole thing would be over. It’s just false.

      We shouldn’t send them weapons, but stopping doing so would not stop the genocide.

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        8 months ago

        So you’re saying it’s something that worked with Reagan, Worked with Thatcher, would not work with Biden? Or it has to do more with Biden being the top recipient of j Street money than any other politician.