• themeatbridge@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    50
    arrow-down
    5
    ·
    10 months ago

    “Honestly, it didn’t come up. We talked mostly about the Netflix series Night Agent. Have you seen it? So good.”

    • Biden, probably.
  • nekandro@lemmy.ml
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    26
    arrow-down
    5
    ·
    10 months ago

    Biden continues to do what he does best: encourage more civilian casualties.

      • nekandro@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        21
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        10 months ago

        By… Grudgingly sending billions of dollars in military aid to Israel?

          • mlg@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            13
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            10 months ago

            Sending aid and discouraging casualties by telling the media is about as useful as telling the police that you swear the 10lb of weed you have fell in through the window.

            • DarkGamer@kbin.social
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              3
              arrow-down
              11
              ·
              edit-2
              10 months ago

              You’re presuming he only told the media, which is not what that report says. His team relayed this to Israeli officials:

              Biden aide Jake Sullivan, the US national security adviser, is in Israel today and tomorrow for meetings with Israeli officials. He says he held “intense, detailed conversations” with Israeli officials on transitioning away from high-intensity fighting in Gaza, and focusing on more precise battles and targeting top Hamas officials.

              Funny how most everyone here assumes the worst of Biden despite all he’s doing.

              • mlg@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                8
                ·
                10 months ago

                Sending aid and discouraging casualties by telling the media and discussing it with Israeli officials without any incentive or enforcement is about as useful as telling the police that you swear the 10lb of weed you have fell in through the window and the proof is that it doesn’t have your name on it.

                FTFY

                No one is assuming the worst of Biden. It’s just that american foreign policy has been exactly the same for so long that it doesn’t surprise anyone when the USA pretends to care about an international issue. Especially now that declassified CIA docs show just how much the USA has been aware and involved in practically every area they consider even a minor strategic advantage.

      • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        edit-2
        10 months ago

        Since when are the colonized the ones who are ‘explicitly genocidal’? How you gon’ react when a bunch of fascist peckerwoods come to annex your land, force you out your house at gunpoint, and start occupying what was, is, and should forever be yours? You mean to tell me you’re not gonna crusade for every peckerwood scalp you can lay your blade on?

        What galls me is you really bout to cape for the terrorist IDF that shoots children, medics, and journalists so regularly it might as well be day-in, day-out business as usual to a colonized subject of empire. Far as I’m concerned, Hamas is doing to their colonizers what my community is too broken, blinkered, fettered, and misled to do to our colonizers. From the river, to the sea, koupe tet boule kay.

      • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        6
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        10 months ago

        “If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti-Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?”

        David Ben-Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121.

    • Mongostein@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      18
      arrow-down
      3
      ·
      edit-2
      10 months ago

      Every Palestinian has not been deposed yet. If they stop before they have access to all that sweet sweet oil it all will have been for nothing.

      FTFY

      Biden’s doing this to bring down gas prices. /s

      • DarkGamer@kbin.social
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        arrow-down
        20
        ·
        edit-2
        10 months ago

        Every Palestinian has not been deposed yet.

        Every Palestinian holds office? Seems like you don’t know what that word means.

        If they stop before they have access to all that sweet sweet oil

        Or, you know, while there’s a neighboring government trying to murder them.

        • Mongostein@lemmy.ca
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          10
          arrow-down
          3
          ·
          edit-2
          10 months ago

          Hamas has been propped up by Israel to create this conflict. Take a look at the proximity of wars with America and its allies to oil deposits in the last 50 years.

          Gaza has oil. At this point it’s so fucking obvious what this is actually about and it’s fucking disgusting.

          • DarkGamer@kbin.social
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            arrow-down
            8
            ·
            10 months ago

            Netanyahu was trying to play Hamas against the PA to divide and conquer and it blew up in his face.
            That’s quite the conspiracy theory. So Oct 7 was what, just a coincidence, planned by Israel, or something equally absurd?

            • Mongostein@lemmy.ca
              link
              fedilink
              arrow-up
              7
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              edit-2
              10 months ago

              I don’t care about any of that. We could play Israel did this vs Hamas did that all day. It’s all smoke and mirrors to complicate a situation, making us argue so we’re blind to the simple truth of what it’s all about. Oil.

              Why won’t America help the Palestinians? Because Israel will get them access to that oil. It’s not that complicated.

              Anyway, Merry Christmas.