Drop Israel Joe Biden as BIBI will gladly betray you to get his way.
Khanna echoed congressional colleague Jim Clyburn, who last week said he would also not attend and cited the feud between Netanyahu and Barack Obama over Palestinian statehood and the US pursuit of a nuclear deal with Iran.
“How he treated President Obama, he should not expect reciprocity,” Khanna said, adding that Netanyahu should be treated with “decorum” by the legislative body. “We’re not going to make a big deal about it,” he added.
For the younglings who don’t remember that, Biden as Obama’s VP openly complained about Obama to the press and even after it worked said it was a bad plan…
Post 10/7 he somehow even claimed that it proved he was right back then?
In the first weeks of the Israel-Hamas war, President Joe Biden privately pointed to praise for his unconditional public support of Israel, as well as some initial successes in influencing its government, as vindication of advice he said President Barack Obama and his closest aides dismissed, according to five people familiar with his comments.
Biden recounted in private that when he was vice president in 2014 and Israel mounted a military assault on Gaza, Obama and his staff rejected his belief, held for decades, that the best way to approach the Israelis is to hug them close but not criticize them, the people familiar with his comments said.
Instead, they said Biden has noted, Obama publicly admonished Israel’s actions and voiced concern for Palestinian civilian deaths early into the 2014 conflict. As a result, Biden has argued, Obama squandered any ability to influence the Israeli government as it invaded Gaza, said the people familiar with his comments.
They said Biden’s message when he revisited the 2014 debate was: I was right then, and I am right now.
Biden has argued, Obama squandered any ability to influence the Israeli government
Ahh yes. Biden commenting on squandering influence…
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Progressive California Democrat Ro Khanna warned Sunday that Joe Biden is running out of time to win over young voters opposed to his administration’s handling of the Israel-Gaza conflict and that he will not attend Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress next month.
He should say in his second term, he’s going to convene a peace conference in the Middle East, recognize a Palestinian state without Hamas, work with Egypt, Saudi Arabia on it.”
Khanna echoed congressional colleague Jim Clyburn, who last week said he would also not attend and cited the feud between Netanyahu and Barack Obama over Palestinian statehood and the US pursuit of a nuclear deal with Iran.
Khanna called on Biden to put more pressure on Netanyahu regarding a UN-endorsed ceasefire proposal, which is supported by the US and the Arab league.
Khanna’s comments come as political divisions between progressive and centrist Democrats over Israel and Gaza are being exposed by a key congressional race in the New York suburbs that pits Bernie Sanders-supported progressive Democrat Jamaal Bowman against George Latimer, a centrist who was endorsed by Hillary Clinton last week.
The contest between the two Democrat candidates in New York’s 16th district may turn on differing positions on the Israeli action on Gaza, which Sanders has called “ethnic cleansing” and Bowman a “genocide”.
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The time for Biden to change that was 9 months ago. Weve already seen the destruction and death his actions have caused.
He’s abandoned any part of his base that’s anti-genocide. As always, they are relying on fear politics to get their guy elected.
Guess we’ll see how it pays off. Spells terrible things for our democracy either way.
The issue is that we already know he’s full in on Israel. Not as a political thing, but because he truly does see Israelis as superior to Palestinians. He fully believes that Israel is allowed to do whatever it wants without repercussion.
And it doesn’t seem to be a religious thing either on his part. It’s some bizarre brainwashing from back in the day, as the article I linked discusses.
I think Biden is afraid he’ll loose the Jewish votes and support of the prominent ones with money that control Hollywood.
It’s actually far more of the Christian vote. Jews are a much smaller group in the USA. Also, as one myself, many I know acknowledge that Bibi has gone waaaaay too far
This is on Hamas to stop the violence. Israel has said over and over that they won’t stop until all hostages are released.
So all Hamas has to do is release the hostages they stole, and Gazans can eat normally again and live in peace again, and start negotiating a 2 state solution again.
Almost as if Hamas doesn’t want all of that…weird. Hamas has been weaponizing their own people to garner sympathy from liberals/leftists. And judging by the replies here, it’s worked. Pathetic
You must have missed the news, israel doesn’t want the hostages back. Hamas offered them in exchange for the IOF to leave Gaza, they said no.
This news? https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bku5kdhsa
While we’re at it, how do you defend Hamas doing this? https://allisrael.com/hamas-video-shows-terrorist-firing-mortar-rounds-from-civilian-area-in-rafah
It’s almost like Hamas doesn’t care how many Palestinians are killed. Weird right?
Not reading an israeli link.
Word well it says Hamas has been firing mortars from civilian areas, but I’m sure you already knew that! These animals don’t give a fuck about their own people, they’re using them as pawns to garner sympathy from fools in the West. Open your eyes bud.
I’m not in the west, I live right next to this conflict. I don’t care what it says, I just said it was a bad source.
Fool is as fool does. Have a great day!
