Biden Warns Israel Not to Occupy Gaza

Stop funding it.

Or what?

Edit: FYI I'm not supporting Israel doing this

Massacring civilians is fine, but occupying is a bridge too far, I guess.

Biden "And definitely don't occupy 5 different countrys at the same time. Some of them for over 20 years. Come on man!"

Israel won't even need to occupy Gaza after they carpet bomb whats left of it into rubble. 😒

After decades of turning blind eye towards Israel's crimes, suddenly Murica thinks it's going too far.

Yeah, what will he or the Democrats do when Israel does occupy Gaza?

Continue to provide unequivocal support and money to Israel?

It's not like they'll do anything else like officially recognize Israel has been acting as a apartheid state causing mass human suffering which in turn grew more mass suffering and conflict.

So many empty hateful comments here miss the fact that 70 years ago was 70 years ago, and since then a whole new generation of people are living in the region. Israelies who don't feel obligated to have Israel but don't want anti-Semitism abroad, and palestinians who don't mind staying where they were born, inside the 48 borders, but want a decent live inside of it. No leader from any place on earth is working towards them. Israeli leaders want the whole country for themselves, and Palestinian leaders also want the whole land for themselves. Neither is plausible without serious loss of life. So stop being so one-sided and actually acknowledge there are two sides to this conflict, and that all parties are reaponsible. Israel would give anything in the world to have peaceful rulers in Gaza.

It's ok I told the angry pitbull to not attack the baby I slathered in steak sauce. Anyway, off to golf.

“I think it’d be a big mistake,” Mr. Biden told “60 Minutes” on CBS in a conversation taped on Thursday and aired on Sunday night. “Look, what happened in Gaza, in my view, is Hamas and the extreme elements of Hamas don’t represent all the Palestinian people. And I think that it would be a mistake for Israel to occupy Gaza again.” But “taking out the extremists” there, he added, “is a necessary requirement.”

I'm not sure how anyone is taking this as a controversial take. Logistically, practically, and the urgent bloodthirst for revenge make this fucking hard to do. But this seems to me to be a pretty even keeled non polarizing take on a complex situation where there is justification for military action against a terrorist group, and that military action must be measured against the safety and needs of a civilian population.

The US is sending mix signals. Biden condemns Hamas, calls them terrorists, and funds the iron dome. Of course Israel thinks they have carte blanche in the region. Surrounded by hostile nations, what other nations in the world acts as aggressive as Israel. They do it because they know they have the full backing of the US. The question is will we live in a world without any Palestinians in the middle east soon - coz that's where we're headed.

Israel misspelled their defense system. Should be called the irony dome.

But he said he was convinced that “the Israelis are going to do everything in their power to avoid the killing of innocent civilians.”

Too late?

Archive link: https://archive.ph/2023.10.16-012318/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/15/us/politics/biden-israel-gaza.html

No word about the killing of civilians?

Statements like this need to followed up with "or else!"

• wink, wink *

I don’t think America, the country that arguably occupied Afghanistan, gets to take the high road here.

America is Israel's bitch. They won't do anything against Israel

AfGazastan incoming

What does he have to gain, politically, by putting Israel on notice in this way? Nothing domestically nor geopolitically. He's just going to be stuck holding the bag pointlessly when they retake that land.

They've been occupying Gaza with their "settlements" for years. What will you do if they continue Mr. President?

Chamberlain agrees. Willing to negotiate.

"Israel should not occupy the Gaza Strip!"

*wink* *wink*

It's almost funny watching people twist themselves into knots over Israel not occupying a territory that morons claim they already occupy, if only people weren't dying because of Hamas terrorists.