Biden left without an easy solution as campus protests heat up
As protests and attempts to quell them spread from New York to Los Angeles and many states in between, President Joe Biden finds himself caught in a series of political and diplomatic crosscurrents without an easy solution.
Here's an easy decision... stop blocking the international community from pursuing diplomatic and economic remedies that would pressure Isreal to not commit genocide. Stop supplying military aide (potentially excepting the specialized hardware to maintain the iron dome).
Sounds like a pretty fucking easy solution...
Sounds like the Biden administration is taking a needlessly hard path just to appease AIPAC and similar foreign actors.
It's important not to fall into a purely majority rule situation, but the Jewish community in America is divided on this matter... we can't let the minority of a minority that's in favor of this genocide steer international policy.
That would require admitting that they were wrong. Which I admit is hard, but come on, man.
The entire bottom paragraph of what you said is entirely wrong. I support Palestine and stopping Israel, but a majority of Jewish people (62%) in the US are fine with the war and the direction it’s going in. As are most Americans. Your point of not having majority rule is true to some extent, but it’s hard to argue that while also knowing that not respecting Majority rule is how we got the first trump administration… Data
As are most Americans.
As are most Americans.
Weird to correct someone and then just add in an extra bonus fact that's wrong. Unless you're claiming "not sure" is "fine with", which it isn't. "Fine with" is "acceptable".
About four-in-ten U.S. adults (38%) say Israel’s conduct of the war has been acceptable, and 34% say it has been unacceptable. The remaining 26% are unsure.
And more importantly, these aren't random samples of the population. Dem/Lean Dem respondents said Israel's conduct is unacceptable by 52-22.
It's a bit more complicated I think and the polling is pretty close. Here's a survey from about a month ago that puts the divide closer to 50/50. I suppose a better way to word my last paragraph is either "half a minority" or "a portion of a minority".
I did want to highlight the Jewish community's opinion though because I think the division there is extremely telling - and because I know the evangelical community is all in on genocide but, imo: they're a bunch of fucking idiots, I don't care what they think, and their opinions are irrelevant to politics because most of them will vote for Trump come hell or high water.
People supporting genocide doesn't make it okay.
How is that easy?
Biden has to support Israel. It’s a centerpiece of us foreign policy for a reason; they want a friend in the region, and there is huge support from his constituents. It’s basically politically impossible to say no.
Nobody needs a friend so badly that they're justified in making friends with a genocidal maniac. I understand that Israel has been a long-term investment, but the amount of human suffering going on right now vastly outweighs any lamentations about sunk cost. What this country needs is a president willing to show that he cares about preventing suffering above all else. Doctors take an oath to both do good and do no harm - it's time for our presidents to do the same, and be held to it to the same degree.
Says the nazi
They're cracking down harder on these protesters than the January 6th insurrectionists lol.
Trump was in charge on J6. The failure to crack down then, is in part due to Trump intentionally not cracking down. I would compare this to the heavy handed crackdown on the DC Black Lives Matter protesters. You know, the one where he heals a Bible upside down. That was a violent crackdown on mostly peaceful protestors.
In all fairness, they don’t have the president’s encouragement.
Trump refused to send people to crack down on the January 6th insurrectionists.
Also, pretty hard to say that when one didn't last a day and resulted in criminal accusations, the other has been going on for over a week and, as far as I know, has seen no one being criminally accused.
People are being charged with assault, hate speech, trespass and resisting arrest.
All of which are criminal charges.
Four colleges simply met with their protestors, came to an agreement to not invest in companies supporting the war, and publicly call for peaceful resolution.
Why is it so damn hard for all the other ones?
came to an agreement to not invest in companies supporting the war
No, they came to an agreement to listen to a proposal to maybe not invest in those companies.
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.
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He honestly thinks AIPAC is going to win him his election and not his pissed off voterbase lol.
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 removed 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.
Stop aiding Israel’s genocide doesn’t seem too difficult, but I’m not a Zionist.
Supporting genocide or not supporting genocide. Gee, what a tough choice.
It does beg the question, what other pressures is he facing and why would he bow to them?
In your words of a tough choice… The moral choice is not tough. The quick “just do it” take is not tough. It’s easy to just throw all in.
The actual steps that must be made at the level of potus are tough even with the will. The time, the complexity, the repercussions, the fallout… the reality that is a little less clear than “all or nothing” is hard. The ship does not turn on a dime.
Not disagreeing with you but just saying it’s not a simple choice, but instead a tough direction in a world where the GOP sees presidential powers only apply to republicans and democrats aren’t even citizens.
How hard is to just not sign a piece of paper that gives tens of billions to Israel? Seems pretty easy to me.
Stop supplying the weapons for Genocide?
[Biden] largely sidestepped protesters’ demands, which have included ending U.S. support for Israeli military operations. Asked after his remarks whether the demonstrations would prompt him to consider changing course, Biden responded with a simple “no.”
Biden on this topic.
He’s got a super easy solution:
“Sorry Israel, but you fucked up royally! We’re suspending all aid; recognizing the state of Palestine as an independent nation, and will begin the process of rebuilding Gaza and reappropriating all of your illegal settlements on their land.”
Simple!
"Okay. We're joining BRICS. Mr. Putin loves genocide, and he's really going to love all this American tech we can show him."
Simple indeed.
US sells/provides/uses so many armaments around the world that it's laughable to think Russia doesn't already have their hands on at least a vast chunk of our "tech". Surely trying to reverse-engineer what they can, as I'm sure any country does to foreign equipment.
Usually it's the manufacture process of tech that is the "secret sauce".
Man facing pressure from swarm of angry hornets can see no possible way to soothe the increasingly enraged colony as he continues to hit nest with stick
US politicians are bought by the israeli lobby. We need to crack down on corruption in the most extreme way.
being President isnt supposed to be an easy job... he's been in politics 52 years now, cant he figure out a solution?
Clearly he can't. He is a lifetime politician and he is the living embodiment of "status quo".
If only he was a republican!
Then OP would forget that he exist! Maybe how he falsified intelligence to lie the country into an unjustified trillion dollar war! …All so they could fuck up the region and we could pretend ignorance as to why the region is somehow magically fucked up…
Maybe OP can keep posting articles desperately tying every problem to Biden while claiming they are trying to “wake up the dems”.
You know… by falsely blaming democrats for everything from the weather to your bitter coffee and ignoring the GOP every step, should be fine
This reads like a MAGA supporter ranting about all the "witch hunt" charges Trump is facing.
Which is a shame. I mention the Iraq war and you think MAGA supporter.
Like marg taylor green ranting about forever wars it’s weird that you see trump supporter in all of this… it’s almost like there’s a nuance to addressing OPs line of posts as well as historical references to liberal politics…
But yea you see maga?
