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.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    143·
    4 days 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
      3·
      3 days ago

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

      • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
        83·
        3 days ago

        Biden has partly credited his pro-Israel world view to his father, who insisted following World War Two and the Nazi Holocaust there was no doubt of the justness of establishing Israel as a Jewish homeland in 1948.

        https://www.reuters.com/world/us/i-am-zionist-how-joe-bidens-lifelong-bond-with-israel-shapes-war-policy-2023-10-21/

        Sorry it took so long.

        To find that I had to go thru all the trouble of searching “Biden dad Israel” on Duck Duck go. And then had to even click on the top result.

        I can understand why that answer would have evaded someone.

        But that’s not exactly what I said is it, and it’s not his own words…

        So I went the extra mile for you man, I clicked the second link too

        Except the problem with Bidens own words, these days they trail off.

        PRESIDENT BIDEN: Well, I hope my father heard that. He’d be — my father was what we call a righteous Christian. He couldn’t understand why we didn’t move more rapidly back in World War II (inaudible). Any rate. I —

        PRESIDENT HERZOG: I think that was a great legacy with — of your father.

        PRESIDENT BIDEN: Well, it was. And I remember how I got in trouble — we were friends even back then — when I said — years ago, as a senator, I said, “You don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist.” I’m a Zionist.

        https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/11/12/remarks-by-president-biden-and-president-isaac-herzog-of-the-state-of-israel-before-a-meeting/

        He starts the story there, but literally just trails off

        That was only 9 days ago tho…

        Is that recent enough?

        Do you want more?