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  • retrospectology@lemmy.world
    181·
    6 months ago

    It kind of puts things into perspective when you realize that Ronald Reagan withheld munitions to strong arm the Israeli regime into stopping their bombing of Lebanon. Biden is to the right of Reagan here, that’s how far the Overton window has been moved and why Biden is struggling to get the Democratic base to vote for him even against a convicted felon; he’s not a Democrat in any meaningful sense of the word.

    • Carrolade@lemmy.worldEnglish
      310·
      6 months ago

      He specifically withheld an order of cluster munitions over concerns the Israelis were using them improperly, well after the invasion was underway.

      Not too different from Biden withholding the bomb shipments over Rafah.

  • unmagical
    16·
    6 months ago

    So hit them hard and hit them fast, cause you’re your only hope.

    The message is being conveyed indirectly, the person said; the U.S. doesn’t engage Hezbollah one-on-one because it is a designated terrorist organization, and it relies on public communications or intermediaries.

    🤨

    “We think there ought to be a diplomatic resolution to the conflict across the Israel-Lebanon border that is keeping tens of thousands of families on each side of the border from returning to their homes,” Matthew Miller, the State Department spokesperson, told reporters Monday.

    Then maybe you should…talk to them?

    • ShimmeringKoi [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      11·
      6 months ago

      Representative of government currently separating tens of thousands of families at US border thinks we should talk about all this awful family separation somewhere else, definitely isn’t just scared of being militarily embarrassed by Hezbollah