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First off, this isn't a secret, and it's not new.
This is just more of the same, the press going the extra mile to give reach-around cover and misdirection for the failed policies of the current administration, or rather, their actual policies, which have lead us to where we are.
You are incredibly misinformed if you believe the conflict in the Middle East is caused by the Biden administration. No matter who is the president, the US will always support Israel. Trump is loves to pretend he will fix something to get votes because his pocket book depends on being president.
I'm not informed...?
No US president in history, from either party, has been this hands-off with Israel. Period.
And I didn't say war, I said situation, as in the nonstop spiraling of events, without as much as a waiver in US support: diplomatically, militarily, or financially.
The fact that you don't know that, shows it's not me who is misinformed.
Maybe you are under informed. The Abraham Accords and the moving of the US embassy were escalations in this conflict.
Wait, so you're saying that US culpability in this conflict starts, and ends, with the Trump administration...?
Again, I don't think it's me who's under informed on this issue.....
Surprising absolutely no one except for the staunchest and blindest American Zionists.
American zionists are overwhelmingly christian and overwhelming support trump.
Fascist is as fascist does
They gonna do anything about it or continue to bend over backwards?
I'm betting just more finger wagging while competing to be the most pro zionists in Washington
No no, they'll just go ahead and lose and blame Russia and Jill Stein... Probably throw Bernie under the bus too just for shits and giggles
“He meddled several times during the Clinton administration...
...supported fundraisers in Israel for then-GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election
...in 2020 he was all-out for Trump.”
all that meddling and he has fuck all to show for it lol. hopefully that is a good omen for 2024.
Fuck all to show for it? Democrats literally can't tell him "no, stop doing genocide" or they'll get primaried against "centrists" with twice their cash.
netanyahu != aipac
I'm sure the fascist who refuses to leave power has nothing to do with the official bribery arm of the state of Israel.
I think it's meant more as "Bibi, specifically, has failed to get the ideological allies of Bibi into power" rather than "Israel has failed to ensure that both parties are ideological allies of Israel"
The distinction is important insofar as Netanyahu's alliance with the GOP is concerned, as opposed to the general bootlicking attitude of American politicians towards Israel.
Centrists support genocide because AIPAC pays to rid them of progressives.
But they continue to suck his dick regardless.
The Democrats are only sucking Israel's dick by proxy. They're actually just sucking the dick of the military industrial complex, because America is a corporate plutocracy masquerading as a democracy.
Israel's just a long time benefactor of, and contributor to, the MIC. Their existence = weapons contracts.
It’s the sweet ketchup scent in the diaper that keeps them coming back time and time again.
What the fuck is this and where do I buy one? How do I set it on people? Does it need their scent or does it have a little slot where I can insert someone's picture and it'll automatically home in on them?
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Fucking everyone wants Trump because he's so fucking easy to manipulate.
Iran and China are hesitant on him. Iran because he might be stupid enough to actually start a pointless war that's in no one's strategic interests, not even the US; China because he can be bribed, but he also swaps to the opinion of the person who last spoke to him, which makes him unpredictable (and thus makes it difficult to establish any policy that deals with the US as long as he's in power).
What can you say? He's a Salesman, sure he 'might' of destabilised the world for a bunch of consecutive paydays, but he made profit!
What a champ! /s
And obviously all the US's traditional allies, although it might have been implied they weren't in the question.
but he also swaps to the opinion of the person who last spoke to him
Oh so he's my husband /s
Still kind of surprised there hasn't been a poisoning attempt on him yet because of how much his ego thrives on being buttered up
They tried but the McDonald's additives neutralizes the poison
You suspect?!
Well, duh.
Wait, isn't Harris pro-Israel?
Both "parties" compete over who's the most zionist.
This is emphatically false. Like... Literally just a lie straight from the "both parties" crowd.
The democrats are currently pressuring Israel and pushing back politically (weakly, since they seem afraid of piss off voters and hand everything to Trump).
The Republicans fully support everything taking place right now. 100% support for Israel and this Hitler-esque leader of Isreal.
“No administration has helped Israel more than I have. None, none, none,"
Joe Biden like yesterday
The democrats are currently pressuring Israel and pushing back politically
How is Israel being pressured? Do you mean phone calls where Biden asks bibi to chill then sends him everything he wants anyway? That's not pressure. Pressure would be putting conditions on arms transfers and Biden won't do that so the only thing separating Ds and Rs on this issue is a very thin veil of rhetoric that no one believes anyway
Tom Cotton has all but said Netanyahu should kill every Palestinian, which is further than even Netanyahu's own far-right partners will go in public.
Damn, full support for a genocide that is unpopular with their own electorate, and this is the thanks they get? If you're willing to lose due to principles, at least make them good principles.
Out in the real world, Hamas committed genocide on October 7. Israel is in Gaza in an attempt to destroy Hamas and free the hostages that were taken on that day.
"Genocide Joe" is just a meme spread by internet cranks that's a very tiny minority of voters, insignificant compared to the number of voters that know the difference between a war and a genocide.
The IDF killed more Israeli civilians than Hamas did on that day. They do not care about their people when it comes to being hostages.
Israel's "attempt to destroy Hamas" has killed tens of thousands of children. Stop apologising for genocide. You cunt.
It's not genocide, it's ethnic cleansing/stealing land. If all the Palestinians left for some place else, Israel would not pursue them to exterminate them, they'd just steal their land. It's Palestinian land that Israel is stealing. The Palestinians are just in the way.
You just described a genocide, like one of the plain text definitions of a genocide. Mass murdering a group of people to steal their land.
Doesn't matter that you've made up a hypothetical fantasy scenario where they aren't caged in cornered, but have free movement, it's still a genocide.
Oh, and they aren't free to leave, they are caged and cornered.
So you're wrong, and you're wrong again.
With all the good will in the world, my friend, you need to look up the definitions of genocide. Pursuing a population to exterminate then is NOT a prerequisite for genocide.