The president, in a phone call, said that the overall humanitarian situation in Gaza was “unacceptable.”
President Joe Biden on Thursday spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time since an airstrike killed seven humanitarian aid workers in Gaza.
During the call, the White House said Biden warned that U.S. policy toward the crisis will be determined by Israel’s immediate efforts to address civilian harm and the security of aid workers.
“President Biden emphasized that the strikes on humanitarian workers and the overall humanitarian situation are unacceptable,” a White House readout of the call said. “He made clear the need for Israel to announce and implement a series of specific, concrete, and measurable steps to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering, and the safety of aid workers. He made clear that U.S. policy with respect to Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel’s immediate action on these steps.”
Israel is taking immediate action…
…to blow up yet another refugee encampment
This honestly reminds me of that meme where the dog only barks and snarls at the other dog when the gate is between them and whenever it opens he shuts up.
Not that Israel will actually listen or Biden actually follow through with his request, but what exactly does he mean by “policy”?
Is he gonna stop giving 5% discount on bomb purchases after the IDF inevitably kills more aid workers?
I don’t think he’s ever once mentioned any actual consequences besides “threaten relations”
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The tone of the official White House readout Thursday was notably more critical than the previous one following Biden’s March 18 call with Netanyahu. In that readout, Biden was said to have “stressed the urgent need to significantly increase the flow of lifesaving aid reaching those in need throughout Gaza,” according to the White House; and he “reiterated his deep concerns about the prospect of Israel conducting a major ground operation in Rafah.”
At this rate maybe Biden will stop giving them billions of dollars a year in a century or two…
Maybe the same thing that happens to literally every single human as we age is also effecting 81 year old Biden…
This is for a number of reasons. For the 80-year-old, their life probably doesn’t look too different than it did when they were 78 or 79, “so, in that case, they’re looking back on fewer events,” Lustig said. “When you’re looking back, the less rich your representation is, the more it’s going to seem like the time went by quickly.”
In other words, our brains lump time together when the days or weeks are similar. So for an 80-year-old who largely does the same thing every day, the year is going to blend together in their mind and feel like it went by quickly.
You can say being president is a new experience…
But Biden has spent literally a lifetime in federal government, 8 years as VP, and 4 years as president.
Biden very likely feels like he’s handling things ridiculously fast, but that’s just because at 80 years old you’re basically on cruise control.
And we need more than that in a president during the best of times.
Biden is better than trump, but that’s not a unique trait
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Man, the worst part about valid criticisms of Biden are the people agreeing for the wrong reasons…
What’s wrong about it he did levrage urakranan aid money to basicly give his son a free get out of jail card if trump did that for baron or trump Jr I guarantee it would be plasters all over
I get tired of these comments and would like to level some personal attacks at you because I have behavior and personality issues I’m continually working on. That said, I encourage you to read news from multiple sources and especially information that challenges your world view. It is very difficult to change your paradigm and come join other critical thinkers but I have faith that if you love yourself and community enough you will take this advice and become a more well rounded thinker.
I agree with you but in a fair and free world you will have different opinions and both sides need to be respected if those with different options are cencored the the worlds not free
in a fair and free world you will have different opinions and both sides need to be respected
This is true when it comes to matters of reasonable opinion. The problem is that opinions are not facts. You cannot tell me that the sky is green and that I need to respect your opinion or the world is not free. In truth, the world can be endangered by your incorrect understanding of reality.
Joe Biden literally leveraged aid money as per US and European policy to have an ineffective guy fired. Do you think the Obama administration and the IMF and many European nations were all pressuring Ukraine to protect Biden’s son?
Mike Carpenter, who served as a foreign policy adviser to the then-vice president, told USA TODAY that Shokin “never went after any corrupt individuals at all” and “never prosecuted any high-profile cases of corruption.”
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As a result, Biden leveraged $1 billion in aid as “a stick to move Ukraine forward,” Kupchan said. “He was acting alongside our European allies. Everybody was of a single mind that this prosecutor was not the right guy for the job.”
https://oversight.house.gov/timeline/ukraine-11/biden-firing-ukraine-prosecutor-clip/ let’s agree to disagree it was a nice discorce
That’s 100% NOT what happened. Biden had Viktor Shokin removed because he was FAILING to run corruption investigations, not because he was investigating Burisma.
Look at the timeline here:
https://www.justsecurity.org/66271/timeline-trump-giuliani-bidens-and-ukrainegate/
Yes, and it was because Shokin was AVOIDING prosecuting corruption, NOT because he was prosecuting Hunter.
Again, you don’t have any grasp of the facts here. Read the links I already gave you.
Operation Wide Receiver was run by the State of Arizona during the BUSH administration and had nothing to do with Obama or Biden.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATF_gunwalking_scandal
Your post is full of misinformed nonsense.
Wikipeda isn’t a trusted source of information
When it comes to your being completely ignorant of the facts it’s a great place to start.
Arizona. 2006. Biden was not involved.
As noted before, Biden got the guy fired for FAILING to investigate corruption, not for investigating Hunter.
You don’t know the first things you’re trying, and failing, to talk about. Please read up on the links I’ve provided before spouting more nonsense.
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This doesn’t create material changes, and I’m doubtful that it actually will, but the silver lining is that this is a pretty big change geopolitically. Just saying “get your fucking act together or we’re going to reconsider aid” is significant.
Course, it would be a lot more significant if it was followed up by action, and I hope that it is.
Genocide Joe seems to have forgotten he already passed a UN ceasefire resolution last week.
The US has never been very good at honoring their toothless resolutions
