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- world@lemmy.world
Behind the scenes: During the call with Biden on Monday, Netanyahu complained about Schumer’s speech and Biden’s endorsement of it. He also claimed the public political attacks against him in the U.S. are interference in Israeli politics, the sources said.
The sources said Biden pushed back and told Netanyahu he is not trying to undermine him and has no intention to intervene in Israeli domestic politics.
White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said in a briefing with reporters on Monday that Netanyahu “did raise his concerns about a variety of things that have come out in the American press.”
Sullivan added that from Biden’s perspective “this is not a question of politics. It’s not a question of public statements. It’s a question of policy and strategy.”
One source said the fact that Netanyahu aired his grievances with Biden helped to somewhat clear the atmosphere.
If I wanted more violence and genocide I would be like you and making Gaza a make or break issue.
I’m voting for Biden. I’m not advocating voting against him.
I’m just saying that he should stop supporting genocide. But since you can’t justify genocide, you have to pretend that I want Trump to win.
By continuing the narrative of biden is a war hungry blood thirsty genocide Joe you are helping Trump. Its basic shit. People like you act like biden had a choice when you just discount the entirety of US and Isreal history. It’s not like biden can just say hey Isreal can you stop, please? You wanna Blame someone blame yourself for being only aware of issues when they get popular and not the 100 years prior. Or even the 1000 years before that… or the 1000 years before that
He should stop supporting genocide and so should you. Trump is a convenient excuse to silence opposition to the genocide you support.
Biden didn’t need to circumvent congress to sell Netanyahu weapons for genocide. He didn’t need to run interference for Netanyahu at the UN.
He can withhold or condition weapons sales and stop propping Netanyahu up at the UN.
“That’s the way we’ve always done it” is a really shitty justification for supporting genocide.