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Suzanne Crowell's avatar

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?

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Lynell(VA by way of MD&DC)'s avatar

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.

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progwoman's avatar

You must be forgetting that famous photo on Biden's trip to Israel shortly after the Hamas attacks.

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Lynell(VA by way of MD&DC)'s avatar

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.

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progwoman's avatar

Yeah, me too. What he has to calibrate is way beyond our capacity (and that of most other politicians.)

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Gayle Cureton's avatar

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.

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Suzanne Crowell's avatar

It's all fungible since no restrictions are enforced.

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