Biden, a supposed foreign policy pragmatist, doesn’t seem bothered that the US is one of the few states that continues to wholeheartedly sustain Israel’s war on Gaza. In fact, Biden has staked his political future on his support for Netanyahu and Israel – and Biden is losing. In this year’s presidential election, where he will most likely face Donald Trump once again, Biden has already lost support among young progressives, Black and Arab American voters, who are all rightfully angry at his refusal to restrain Israel.
Biden allies are raising the alarm that he could lose Michigan, a swing state with substantial Black, Arab and Muslim American voting blocs, because of his Middle East policies. Congressman Ro Khanna, a Biden supporter and progressive Democrat from California who has tried to mediate between Biden’s campaign and Michigan Democrats, warned his team this week: “We cannot win Michigan with status quo policy.”
The Biden administration has consistently underplayed the leverage it has over Israel and Netanyahu. “I think that sometimes people pretend that the United States of America has a magic wand that it can wave to make any situation in the world roll out in exactly the way that we would want it to and that is never the case,” Matthew Miller, the state department spokesperson, said at a press conference on 12 February.
Miller’s flippant comment raises an important question: if Biden can’t use billions of dollars in military aid – and the ability to literally cut off Israel’s supply of bombs – to force Netanyahu to accept a ceasefire, what could Biden do with a magic wand?
We had a nice exchange yesterday but I do think it’s worth pointing out that anyone who would otherwise have voted for Biden, but refuses to vote, is effectively just voting for genocide by different means. That’s not to say you shouldn’t stand on your principles, but the outcome of Biden losing the election is that things stay the same or get worse in Gaza, and definitely get worse in the US.
I completely support acknowledging all that and still making a principled choice, but I do think it should be acknowledged. You aren’t just choosing not to support Biden’s complicity, you are choosing to enable Trumps complicity and enabling the actions Trump will take in the US and elsewhere, none of which are going to be an improvement over what we would get from Biden.
You folks want Biden’s complicity acknowledged? Fine, I’m on board. But you can’t fail to acknowledge the likely impacts of not voting or not voting Biden in November if I"m supposed to take your position seriously, because if you fail to do so you are ignoring the externalities of your decision as much as anyone you might criticize.
The ends do not justify the means.
It is the same loigic that israel uses to commit Genocide. “If we don’t kill them all now, they’re going to kill us all later! We are doing the lesser of evils!” Preventing another possible Genocide by enabling an existing one is not a viable option and will only lead us further down a path of darkness.
We are laying down the ultimatum now. Joe Biden is the person that can decide whether Genocide is more important to him than winning the election.
That’s not what I said.
It is not what you think you said. But it is what you said.
Your desired end is “America not falling to Tump so he “doesn’t Genocide us”” and the means you are willing to use for it is “commit Genocide on another population.”
There is no nuance nor rationalization to justify having little kid their legs sawn off without anesthetics and starving as if it’s the fucking Holocaust.
The genocide ends when enough people shed themselves into being deluded to support Genocide. And people like me will help you by making the first step and saying that we will make 100% certain that Biden loses if the Genocide doesn’t stop.
Not whatsoever. Yes, I do think Trump will do a variety of bad things domestically - but he’s ALSO going to do exactly what Biden is doing in Gaza or worse.
Please reread what I quoted with this context in mind, as the rest of your reply here doesn’t really fit that context.
Trump in the whitehouse means nothing better in Gaza than what is happening there now, and much worse things in the US than the current situation here. Refusing to even acknowledge that truth remains an example of ignoring the externalities of your decision every bit as egregiously as anyone you might criticize.
Good day to you.
Indeed. So let’s hope Biden won’t make that happen and forces a ceasefire soon.
Good day to you too my friend.