Biden Tells Bibi: Protect Civilians Or Risk US Support

Friday, April 05, 2024

The president urged an "immediate cease-fire," in what was the first time he threatened to condition aid to Israel during its six-month offensive.

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It's about f'n time. Now let's see if he actually means it.

#1 | Posted by qcp at 2024-04-04 03:02 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

All talk. No follow through.

#2 | Posted by Sycophant at 2024-04-04 04:49 PM | Reply

Joe Brandon is "frustrated" with the Israelis murdering civilians.

Very frustrated.

#3 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-04-04 05:16 PM | Reply

If it were Trump he'd be helping the Israelis kill the Palestinians and helping Russia to secure their claim on the Ukraine.

You'll have a chance to get ride of Biden in November.

Best of luck.

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-04-04 05:19 PM | Reply

Biden Tells Bibi: Protect Civilians or Risk US Support

Bibi tells Biden: Putin will support us if you don't.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-04 05:37 PM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

... Israel's killing of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers has the makings of a watershed moment in Washington, rapidly accelerating a months-long decline in U.S. support for the war in Gaza.

Why it matters: President Biden called for an "immediate ceasefire" Thursday and told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that future U.S. policy "will be determined by our assessment of Israel's immediate action" on addressing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and protecting aid workers. ...

#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-04 05:59 PM | Reply

Bibi tells Biden: Putin will support us if you don't.

#5 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

I'm not sure what good a bot farm is going to do them.

But that's assuming Joe Brandon stops directly adding the extermination project.

I don't think that's going to happen.

#7 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-04-04 08:15 PM | Reply

Bibi tells Biden: Putin will support us if you don't.
#5 | POSTED BY SNOOFY

No they won't.

FFS get your stories straight.

#8 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-04-04 08:20 PM | Reply

The key part is getting all the hostages home.

Something Hamas doesn't want to do for all the land in the middle east.

See Hamas benefits from Palestinians dying, Israel not so much.

#9 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-04-04 08:22 PM | Reply

@#5 ... Bibi tells Biden: Putin will support us if you don't. ...

Yeah, Prime Minister Netanyahu is a wild card in this equation.

He is starting to see opposition from within Israel...

Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz calls for early elections
www.axios.com

... Benny Gantz, a prominent member of Israel's war cabinet, called on Wednesday for early elections to be held in September -- before the one-year anniversary of the Hamas terrorist attacks that shook the country.

Why it matters: This is the first time since Oct. 7 that Gantz, a retired army general who currently leads in the polls by a wide margin, has called for early elections. ...

So, a desperate person backed into a corner?

That ain't a good scenario.

#10 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-04 08:22 PM | Reply

Tide turns sharply against Israel's war in Gaza
- gaslighter

If course it does.
America can't sustain an --------, hence Hims being billion dollar corporation, much less an actual war. See Ukraine.

#11 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-04-04 08:24 PM | Reply

@#8 ... No they won't. ...

Is that what your apparent inside line to Moscow is telling your current alias?

#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-04 08:24 PM | Reply

The key part is getting all the hostages home.

#9 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT AT

The IDF executes freed hostages.

#13 | Posted by tres_flechas at 2024-04-04 08:32 PM | Reply

@#5 ... Biden Tells Bibi: Protect Civilians or Risk US Support ...

That was a significant change of policy for the United States.

A dictum, with specific actions and responses required.

Will PM Netanyahu respond and, more importantly, act within the specifications of Pres Biden's dictum?

#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-04 08:38 PM | Reply

#14

No, it's a significant message change. We'll see if actual policy follows.

I'm somewhat hopeful, but we need to see actual action, not just words. And this should have been the message on October 8, not now, over 30,000 civilians dead in this Israeli genocide.

No, I'm not under any disillusion that the orange dirtbag wouldn't be worse, of course he would. But that doesn't mean Biden doesn't have the stench of genocide supporter on him now.

#15 | Posted by DarkVader at 2024-04-05 02:06 PM | Reply

#7
The key part is getting all the hostages home.
Something Hamas doesn't want to do for all the land in the middle east.
See Hamas benefits from Palestinians dying, Israel not so much.
#9 | Posted by oneironaut at 2024-04-04 08:22 PM

Isn't there a cognitive disconnect with the desire to obtain hostages while simultaneously committing genocide - in the same place and time?

From the footage it would appear that the hostages taken at the festival were by Palestinian civilians.

Knowing that much, if civilians don't have access to the tunnels the IDF would have bombed the hostages to death by now.

Israel intelligence must calculate that much as well, and early on.

#16 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2024-04-05 05:03 PM | Reply

"The president made it clear that the U.S. will not leave Israel without the ability to defend itself," she continued. "But if there is no change in their approach, then there will be a change in our approach."

Or what? Were going to take your milk money? Biden doesn't get to dictate what happens with Israel, and its my opinion this is nothing more than lip service to those hundreds of thousands of Palestinian supporters who are turning on him.

#17 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2024-04-05 10:25 PM | Reply

Biden's "threats" lack any semblance of a bite. And that's what's needed: a great big bite with the message "Cut this ----- out, now, or even more to follow." The US has the juice. Use it. Yesterday.

#18 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2024-04-06 05:49 AM | Reply

Or what? Were going to take your milk money? Biden doesn't get to dictate what happens with Israel ...

Like Trumpy couldn't "dictate" what Ukraine had to do to get those stinger missiles when Trumpy needed dirt on Biden?

Biden and the Dems do get to "dictate" how we help Israel or not.

I bet if those F15 fighter jets got delayed because of this Israel would sit up and take notice.

And even "if the Biden administration remains reluctant to impose conditions on aid to Israel, the top two Democrats on the Senate and House foreign relations committees could try to ratchet up the pressure on the White House by refusing to approve a proposed $18 billion arms package for Israel, which includes more F-15 fighter jets. Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York, ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, have yet to say publicly if they will sign off on the planned sale."
www.nbcnews.com

#19 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-04-06 02:33 PM | Reply

Israel will just back R's because they really don't care about anything but the free handout.

#20 | Posted by Brennnn at 2024-04-06 05:53 PM | Reply