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- politics@lemmy.world
- palestine@lemmy.ml
He has ideological blinders, says Khaled Elgindy of the Middle East Institute. Israel for him is a kind of moral touchstone that transcends history and geopolitics, he told me. “Most presidents have had this Israel-centric view of the region, but even they were able to see when Israel went too far. Biden is not able to see that, and that’s the part that’s really astonishing.”
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For Biden defenders:
Trump says the quiet part aloud, but Biden still supports the genocide of Palestinians.
Within the scope of his actual power and influence, Biden has repeatedly chosen to prioritize and enable Israel. As other presidents have demonstrated, there are steps that Biden could take to mitigate the situation. Instead, Biden uses what power he does have to continue enabling Israel.
Since the 1980s*, Biden’s bigotry and cruelty towards Arabs has been obvious. As the various sources I provide below discuss in detail, Biden has actively enabled Israel for decades. We are witnessing the consequences of that as Biden continues to support Israel’s current genocide of Palestinians.
It is whitewashing when one ignores the implications of Biden’s past and current support of Israel. It is whitewashing when one ignores the implications of Biden’s continued support for Israel as it genocides the Palestinians. By supporting Israel politically and materially, Biden is hammering for even more death and destruction. The outcome of that is apparent as Israel continues to commit genocide and, amidst Blinken’s recent visit, announces the largest illegal seizure of Palestinian land since the 1990s.
The common argument that “our current genocide is more benevolent than their hypothetical genocide” is obtuse, callous, and meaningless given that the genocide is occurring now with Biden’s support. Palestinians are dying right now. The land of Palestinians is being stolen right now. Biden’s continued support of Israel ensures that even more Palestinians will die. The Biden Administration has, by providing policial and material support, already given the green light to slaughter Palestinian civilians.
*In 1982
Biden “said he would go even further than Israel, adding that he’d forcefully fend off anyone who sought to invade his country, even if that meant killing women or children.”
The comments were striking to [Minister Menachem] Begin, who had been notorious as a leader of the Irgun, a militant group that carried out some of the worst acts of ethnic cleansing accompanying the creation of the state of Israel, including the 1948 Deir Yassin massacre.
Notably, Ronald Reagan was able to stop Israel via a single phone call. Biden is to the right of Ronald Reagan on the issue of Israel and Palestine.
https://theintercept.com/2021/04/27/biden-israeli-invasion-lebanon/
Additional information:
• https://jewishcurrents.org/joe-bidens-alarming-record-on-israel • https://time.com/6340511/biden-israel-history/#:~:text=President Biden is proving,to fight fire with fire. • https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/politics/the-biden-administration-once-again-bypasses-congress-on-an-emergency-weapons-sale-to-israel • https://www.thenation.com/article/world/biden-israel-netanyahu/tnamp/ • https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-upset-israel-netanyahu/tnamp/ • https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-press-secretaries-gaza-matthew-miller-john-kirby/ - https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/biden-jews-israel-safety/ • https://www.thenation.com/article/world/biden-redefines-cease-fire-gaza/ • https://theintercept.com/2023/10/27/palestine-israel-free-speech-retaliation-senate/ • https://www.democracynow.org/2024/3/20/shane_bauer • https://ccrjustice.org/home/press-center/ccr-news/complicity-genocide-case-against-biden-administration • https://theintercept.com/2024/02/01/gaza-biden-genocide-lawsuit-ruling/ • https://archive.md/2024.03.21-030523/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/18/biden-israel-gaza-rafah-palestinians/ • https://jacobin.com/2024/03/biden-sanctions-israeli-settlers-palestine/ • https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/03/unrwa-gaza-funding-white-house-biden-administration-hamas/ • https://www.thenation.com/article/world/us-israel-funding-unrwa-palestinians/tnamp/ • https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/22/israel-largest-west-bank-settlement-blinken-visit/ • https://truthout.org/articles/us-has-redefined-human-shields-to-enable-israels-slaughter-of-gaza-civilians/ • https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/21/biden-stop-gaza-bombing-genocide-israel • https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/12/israel-united-states-military-aid-leverage/ • https://www.npr.org/2024/03/08/1236875766/does-the-u-s-have-the-power-and-leverage-to-stop-the-israel-hamas-war
Vote for Biden but don’t pretend as though it will prevent or reverse fascism.
Historically, liberal and liberalism have failed to reverse or prevent fascism. Historically, as can be observed with certain policies of the Biden administration and their support for the fascist genocidal Israeli government, liberals have enabled fascism.
If a genocider is your “lesser evil”, you’re already fucked and on the road to fascism. It’s obvious that most didn’t learn a damn thing from the “First they came for…” lesson.
When someone proclaims the “lesser of two evils” ask if they’d like to be on the receiving end of the “lesser evil” because anyone who says that never envision themselves to be affected.
[not my original post]