• PugJesus
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    121 year ago

    What could Biden, specifically, have engaged in regarding talks to avoid this?

    Even if we assumed that Israel was a good, cooperative, amicable ally instead of a country that both steals and sells US secrets to US enemies, what exactly could Biden have said to avoid this? Biden doesn’t have the power to revoke military aid, and even within his own party revoking military aid is a non-starter. What leverage did Biden have to get Israel, especially Israel under Bibi, to agree to terms that Hamas would find acceptable enough to no longer engage in terrorism over? And what fucking terms would those have been?

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      1 year ago

      What could Biden, specifically, have engaged in regarding talks to avoid this?

      Exactly.

      This conflict between these 2 sides has been ongoing with varying levels of animosity for almost a hundred years, and pretty much every country in the world (and every American president in that time period) had taken a crack at trying to calm things down.

      Yet here we are again in yet another shooting war.

      What could Biden (or anyone outside of the 2 groups) have done to prevent this iteration of bloodshed?

    • @gAlienLifeform
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      31 year ago

      He could have publicly disavowed his state department when they sent this memo out

      In messages circulated on Friday, State Department staff wrote that high-level officials do not want press materials to include three specific phrases: “de-escalation/ceasefire,” “end to violence/bloodshed” and “restoring calm.”

      The revelation provides a stunning signal about the Biden administration’s reluctance to push for Israeli restraint as the close U.S. partner expands the offensive it launched after Hamas ― which rules Gaza ― attacked Israeli communities on Oct. 7.