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[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Multiple State Department officials who have worked on Israeli relations said that Blinken’s inaction has undermined Biden’s public criticism, sending a message to the Israelis that the administration was not willing to take serious steps.

Public criticism, private support. The administration is complicit, and this legacy of aiding genocide will long outlast any positive action Biden has taken thus far

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, it won't. Most Americans care about domestic issues (e.g. jobs, inflation, abortion, etc.) over whichever middle east nation is being bombed this year. Until Americans are being killed, it's not the biggest issue to most voters.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I said the legacy of this will long outlast any positive action Biden has taken. Yeah people will probably vote on domestic issues (although if even a few percent don't want to vote for someone aiding a genocide it is getting pretty tight for Biden), but this recent inflation or whatever will be a distant memory in a few years, while the genocide will not. The court case alone will take years to finish up.

Also under the genocide convention, it is also a crime to be complicit in genocide. So what happens if (ie probably when) the court rules in favour of South Africa? Biden is in the shit. Then he has to answer for HIS actions, as the primary backer of Israel. Not a good look.

I'm not saying "this is going to cost Biden the election," which it seems you were responding to (even though maybe it will). I am saying "people will remember Biden as the guy who gave the bombs that they dropped on the innocent children and not that guy who had decent economic policy."

If I was president this would bother me but maybe Biden doesn't care ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

US is actively participating in this genocide. It's providing material aid, air defence, and political cover for Israel knowing full well what Israel is doing. There is no moral justification for this. It's a genocide that's being broadcast live for all the world to see. This is the true face of the empire, and all of humanity knows exactly what US stands for now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Abe Lincoln?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I mean... they would have to sanction all of them...