Biden left without an easy solution as campus protests heat up

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Isn’t it obvious, Joe?

“While I condemn Hamas, and supported Israel’s right to defend itself in the aftermath of the attacks, the use of force in reprisal has become excessive - beyond what is justified or acceptable. So effective immediately, I’m halting all arms shipments to Israel, and calling on President Netanyahu to withdraw IDF troops from Gaza and the West Bank.”

Problem solved.

He honestly thinks AIPAC is going to win him his election and not his pissed off voterbase lol.

Even if he’d just say “I hear you and you’re right, but sometimes I have to make bad choices for the country that are better for the long term” would be something.

The problem with something like that is Biden has no way to speak to the people without Israel also hearing.

Well... He also has very few friends in Israel. Bibi prefers Trump (who recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, which was a Bad Thing), and the way he's forcing Biden to eat shit right now seems like a pretty easy way to put his thumb on the scale.

"Alright this one is just for the people. Anyone in the government needs to close their eyes and stick their fingers in their ears and say 'lalala' for the next half hour."

EZ 😎

That would be nice, but iirc he needs a legal justification or an act passed by congress to actually halt arms shipments. He made moves not too long ago against a specific part of the Israeli military that was found to be committing war crimes, which Netanyahu is opposing. If we get lucky, he might be able to use Netanyahu's lack of cooperation to suspend or halt military aid entirely. His rhetoric has been trending in that direction, so I'm hopeful.

Are you lying to yourself or to us? He just signed a bill to give them billions of dollars and veto every resolution the UN comes up with while also trying to block the arrest warrant. You need to actually do some research and stop watching DNC propaganda news networks.

The Leahy Law. And the one unit they went after was smoke for the entire operation in Gaza. They aren't letting men leave the combat area right now. Just detaining and torturing them. This isn't just one problem unit.

Lmao even if he did that right this second, people would still be bitching that he didn’t do it months ago. Sure, it would have been great if he had started off that way, but what’s past is past, and if you want him to change course, then let the fucker change course

So 10 minutes after someone murders someone and they say I won't do that again, we should just say "the past is the past and at least he's not murdering anymore"?

Biden needs to be held accountable for the role he played in the genocide in Gaza. The right thing to do would be for him to end it at any cost, but he still needs to be held accountable for his crimes.

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