Whatever else happens in the coming days with the presidential election, the whole saga will permanently affect my understanding of the culture of The New York Times.
Whatever else happens in the coming days with the presidential election, the whole saga will permanently affect my understanding of the culture of The New York Times.
Biden’s support for Israel is unconscionable. They’re committing an active genocide and he’s arming them while they’re doing it.
What I said wasn’t that any of that wasn’t happening. It was that that stuff is all very usual for US presidents. Coups and killings, drone strikes and starving kids. It’s all what they do. Every US President since Carter has voiced their full throated support for Israel for decades, as the whole time they have slaughtered and starved, made apartheid and taken land.
Biden’s actually highly unusual in that he made sanctions on settlers, pushed hard for a cease fire, tried to provide aid, and paused weapons shipments. None of that, to me, means he deserves any credit. He should be snatching Netanyahu and taking him to the ICC, and landing US troops to shoot IDF members in the face if they try to go around killing anybody. But, pretending that he somehow represents a downward departure from the norm for US leaders is to me unsupported by the evidence. US leaders fuckin love war crimes by our allies.
You can represent what I just said, or why it is that the NYT clearly loves Israel and hates Biden, any way that you want, say I am lying, whatever. But that’s how I feel about it.
Ok, thanks for the context I think I understand better what you are trying to say. I understand now I think the nuance you are trying to create with this opinion. However, this is in disagreement with historical context, such as the camp David accords. The US has been far more heavy handed with Israel in the past and not supported or condemned their actions. I dont think that takes away from the spirit of your point however.
I would just offer that you try and draw the conclusion you are making more clearly because it really looked like you were trying to suggest that Biden wasn’t the most pro-israel politician of all time, when its like, extremely well documented thats who the guy is. The point being that Israels current actions are so equally un-precedented that even the most pro-Israel politician of all time cant “just go along” with them.
Do you know what the pro-Israel politician who is his opponent in the current election wants to do in Gaza?
Or how the pro-Israel politicians in congress reacted when he paused weapons shipments?