Thank you! This captures well my own conflicted sentiments on this. I would just add (for myself) - it has been puzzling to me why this issue has seemed to galvanize (a segment of) college students, like nothing else, to protest. My conclusion has been that malign antisemitic (and/or anti-Biden) forces are amplifying and using good faith…
Thank you! This captures well my own conflicted sentiments on this. I would just add (for myself) - it has been puzzling to me why this issue has seemed to galvanize (a segment of) college students, like nothing else, to protest. My conclusion has been that malign antisemitic (and/or anti-Biden) forces are amplifying and using good faith protesters' legitimate concerns to their own advantage, as HCR's comments also suggest.
Because it's on TV (which doomed the war in Vietnam, thank god), and because Biden's embrace of Netanyahu is so problematic. There's the problem of his wanting to stay in power to avoid jail, of trying to achieve a wildly unpopular court "reform", and of his party's own version of "from the river to the sea" in opposition to longstanding US policy of a two state solution. Sound familiar?
I don't see that Biden has "embraced Netanyahu." He has embraced the democratic state of Israel. Sorta like Biden would never deny aid to red states because they are Trump/MAGA states.
Yeah, I actually did forget. More cringeworthy for me was the fist-bump with MBS.
Still, shortly after 10/6, my memory is Israel had a lot of solidarity in the world; there was a pause on negativity for Netanyahu. I can't tell you where I read/heard this, but it's my understanding that Biden personally doesn't like Bibi, but he's not the kind of man who kicks someone when they are down. Some would say that's being two-faced. Maybe so.
I guess I could go on, progwoman; I'll just say with all his faults, I love him still and will be voting for him come Roevember.
As previously stated in Heather's letter, the United States' monetary contributions to Israel have enabled them to fend off relentless missile strikes from Iran, not necessarily used to bomb Gaza.
Thank you! This captures well my own conflicted sentiments on this. I would just add (for myself) - it has been puzzling to me why this issue has seemed to galvanize (a segment of) college students, like nothing else, to protest. My conclusion has been that malign antisemitic (and/or anti-Biden) forces are amplifying and using good faith protesters' legitimate concerns to their own advantage, as HCR's comments also suggest.
Because it's on TV (which doomed the war in Vietnam, thank god), and because Biden's embrace of Netanyahu is so problematic. There's the problem of his wanting to stay in power to avoid jail, of trying to achieve a wildly unpopular court "reform", and of his party's own version of "from the river to the sea" in opposition to longstanding US policy of a two state solution. Sound familiar?
I don't see that Biden has "embraced Netanyahu." He has embraced the democratic state of Israel. Sorta like Biden would never deny aid to red states because they are Trump/MAGA states.
You must be forgetting that famous photo on Biden's trip to Israel shortly after the Hamas attacks.
Yeah, I actually did forget. More cringeworthy for me was the fist-bump with MBS.
Still, shortly after 10/6, my memory is Israel had a lot of solidarity in the world; there was a pause on negativity for Netanyahu. I can't tell you where I read/heard this, but it's my understanding that Biden personally doesn't like Bibi, but he's not the kind of man who kicks someone when they are down. Some would say that's being two-faced. Maybe so.
I guess I could go on, progwoman; I'll just say with all his faults, I love him still and will be voting for him come Roevember.
Yeah, me too. What he has to calibrate is way beyond our capacity (and that of most other politicians.)
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As previously stated in Heather's letter, the United States' monetary contributions to Israel have enabled them to fend off relentless missile strikes from Iran, not necessarily used to bomb Gaza.
It's all fungible since no restrictions are enforced.