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It's honestly insulting that they're still lying to us about not actually egging on Israel behind the scenes. Also telling of which country Biden and Blinken think is more important. They tell the truth to them and lie about what they're saying to us. No party has ever deserved to lose an election more than the genocidal DNC this cycle.
I won't pretend to understand the complexity of this horrific situation. I'm angry and fed up with Israel and the West's relationship with Israel. And it confuses the hell out of me when I see things like this exposé from Bob Woodward that just came out: https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/08/politics/bob-woodward-book-war-joe-biden-putin-netanyahu-trump/index.html
If this is how Biden privately talks about the guy, I have to wonder what's keeping him from being public about it. I understand this is politics, but I want to hope that there's more to it because the United States and other Western nations sure as hell should not be complicit in the slaughter of Palestinians simply because of politics.
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It's all layers of lies. Biden has a record of loving a good, dead, brown child going back to him advocating for Israel killing more Lebanese babies before Reagan made them leave. To Israel he says "YES! BLOOD! MORE BLOOD!" And his team "leaks" to our domestic media that "he sure is mad at Netanyahu, if only the President of The United States wasn't a solely ceremonial position that serves at the pleasure of the Israeli Prime Minister... Darn!" You can tell which side he's lying to by his actions.
I've always felt that we support Israel for the same reason we support Ukraine. They're a friendly military force located in a region of the world where we have enemies. Ukraine helps counter Russia and the same for Israel during the Soviet Union era. Now Israel is a counter to Iran and various terrorist groups.
That's absolutely one of the key reasons the US supports Israel. However, that doesn't mean it can turn a blind eye to what Israel actually does.
The West, especially the United States, has the ability to exert a lot of influence on Israel and yet it seems that they're not trying. Withholding military aid, among other things, goes a long way.
I really wonder what it is I'm missing when it comes to why they won't exert pressure the way it seems they should.
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Most of the enemies are there in the Middle East are because of Israel, or other things we've done, like invasions or funding terrorists to get oil.