Report: Biden Admin “Aggressively” Lobbying Senate Against Blocking Arms Sales to Israel
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The administration claimed that blocking arms transfers would embolden Hamas — ignoring Israel’s genocidal slaughter.

The administration claimed that blocking arms transfers would embolden Hamas — ignoring Israel’s genocidal slaughter.

    • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlEnglish
      293·
      6 hours ago

      But if he does not do this he won’t get re-elected. Don’t you understand? It’s all because he has to appeal to voters. Definitely not the millions of AIPAC dollars he received.

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        62·
        6 hours ago

        I agree that Biden’s unquestionable support of Israel is a huge problem, but he’s legit not doing it for the donations.

        He got so much more than any other US politicians, because Israel used to know that no amount of bribes could ever buy that level of loyalty.

        Bibi never got that memo tho, he just knew he could treat Biden like shit and still get everything he wants.

        The real reason Biden has this level of support for Israel is even stupider, because Biden is older than Israel.

        He’s told the story multiple times over the decades, when he was a toddler and Israel was created, his dad told him to promise to always protect Israel because they were victims.

        And it’s fucking insane that over 70 years later that’s what’s been guiding US foreign policy for four years and why we keep arming a genocidal religious ethnostate even though it was a huge contributed to trump regaining office.

        But that’s why Biden will always give Israel everything they want, a promise a toddler made to his dad almost a century ago.

        • dvoraqs@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 hours ago

          Where did you hear this story about Biden making a promise to protect Israel?

    • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
      102·
      6 hours ago

      I’m becoming increasingly convinced that Israel either has blackmail on Biden or that somehow every damn conspiracy theory about them (Israel, not jewish people at large) controlling the US is actually true.

      They either have Biden by the short hairs, or some kind of leverage that gives them the US Executive Branch by the short hairs.

      • UsernameHere@lemmy.worldEnglish
        42·
        4 hours ago

        The US supports Israel so that Israel can prevent Iran from growing in power and take control of the region.