Opinion | Biden can pick up the phone and end the bombing of Gaza today
Opinion | Biden can pick up the phone and end the bombing of Gaza today
Mr President, make the call. End this genocide
Funny how America's always in charge of gas prices, the stock market, and other countries when a Democrat is in charge, isn't it?
Bullshit.
Israel is a nuclear-armed nation, it is as immune to large-scale ground invasion as N Korea or Pakistan. They do not need our thousand pound bombs, nor our military alliance. This just isn't the 80s anymore.
Similarly, Reagan wasn't facing a criminal trying to take down his own justice system, relying fully on being propped up by ethno-nationalists that want Palestine, all of it, exterminated, just to maintain his own position.
We could probably stop them, if we threatened them with severe economic sanctions. Cutting off the weapons would simply make Netanyahu use even more indiscriminate tactics though, like starving them all, or firebombing the whole place. He can't accept a permanent cease fire though, because one would cost him, him personally, everything he has left.
That's the problem with strongmen. They don't actually give a fuck about people, just themselves. And they'd rather be an evil tyrant than a loser.
Probably can't fix that with a phone call, don't you think?
Also, Netanyahu has been planning this for years. It's exactly why he helped Hamas get control of Gaza in the first place. He has had a plan to wipe out Palestine for a long time now and he's finally been able to implement it.
Noooo you must vote for Genocide Joe!
Keep voting for the Genocide guy!!!! Else the other Genocide guy is going to win!!!
If Trump gets elected, my queer daughter could very well be part of a domestic genocide. For my daughter's sake, and the sake of all other queer people in America, Trump cannot be allowed back into office.
So please tell me who I should vote for to keep my daughter safe.
And while Republicans are creating the environment that threatens your daughter, Democrats have done jack shit to counteract it. Republicans targeting trans didnt start overnight, it's been going on for years, so Dems have had years to protect them, yet here we are. Their inaction allows Republican action.
So in your opinion, Trump and Biden are exactly the same? No difference between the two of them at all?
No, he couldn't. Netanyahu is in charge and he's been looking forward to this for ages. He is not in America's (much less Biden's) pocket. He has his own powerful military at his beck and call.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
What was supposed to have been a limited incursion into southern Lebanon by the Israeli military over the summer, under the leadership of Ariel Sharon, then defense minister (remember him?
Between June and August, the Israelis cut off food, water and power to the Lebanese capital in a brutal attempt to destroy the PLO, whose fighters were holed up inside a tunnel network below Beirut.
That same day, a horrified Ronald Reagan placed a phone call to Menachem Begin, then Israeli prime minister, to “express his outrage” and condemn the “needless destruction and bloodshed”.
It is, to quote the media critic Adam Johnson, a “feigned powerlessness” that has been buttressed, he notes, by a series of “self-serving leaks” from the Biden White House that insist the president “may or not be kind of annoyed over” Israel’s actions.
In late October 2023, Israeli lawmakers challenged Yoav Gallant, the defense minister, over the decision to allow (a little) humanitarian aid into Gaza, before the release of any hostages.
Yet he now possesses the power, unique among the 8 billion people who live on this planet, to pick up the phone, dial a number beginning +972, and halt the daily killing of hundreds of wives and children.
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