@izzythepush,
izzythepush wrote:
Don't get me wrong, I'm really concerned about the prospect of another Trump presidency.
Biden seems far too relaxed about the impact his Gaza policy is having on the Arab American vote.
This crap could lose him the election.
It's not enough to say the other guy would be worse, there needs to be an arms embargo now.
Nothing else will cut it.
I've been a pretty stalwart Biden supporter. But his actions vis-a-vis Israel and Gaza just make no goddam sense, rationally, politically or otherwise.
He was quoted once to say "Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value." (Which was a knock off of the "Budgets are moral documents" line, often attributed to Dr Martin Luther King) I was so glad to hear him say this at the time, It fit with my belief that Biden is, at heart, someone who will do his best to do the right things with the power he can wield in government. But now we have it shown to us in stark relief that Biden is just talking out of both sides of his mouth.
The strike that recently killed a group of aid workers in Gaza should have AT LEAST been the last impetus that our government needed to put strict conditions on its military aid to Israel. Stop bombing, or we stop giving you military aid. Open up to humanitarian aid, or we cut off your money. I've been resistant to this idea in the past, because I was fooled by the doublespeak coming out of the White House, thinking that they were doing everything they practically could, but right now that's all reading as bullshit.
Biden could make a change in the lives and chances for survival of the Palestinian people RIGHT NOW. It is the right thing for him to do politically, and morally.
You know the ONLY reason I think he doesn't move on this? I think it's a part of his religious ideas. That's all I can figure, to explain his continuing, unquestioning funneling of billions of dollars to madman Netanyahu. He said "I don't think you have to be a Jew to be a Zionist, and I am a Zionist", when Netanyahu came to visit.
This is one time I agree with the folks who say religion is the cause of all the misery in the world. The people in Gaza are starving, suffering and dying. Our president and Congress has the power to radically improve their daily lives by making their continuing aid to Israel contingent on Netanyahu allowing a massive, immediate increase in humanitarian aid to get through to Gazans. And the only reason they are not doing it is because of some funky ass idea that God somehow is against it.
