“Netanyahu says he intends to press ahead with the attack nevertheless. "We'll go there. We're not going to leave them. You know, I have a red line. You know what the red line is? That October 7 doesn't happen again. Never happens again." —Netanyahu
Ironically, the only reason Israel was attacked is because of Netanyahu and his “right-wing” regime. They ignored the intelligence, moved more than half their troops from Gaza to the West Bank months before the attack, and took over eight hours to dispatch a military force to counter Hamas’s rampage.
The only question we should be asking ourselves is how is this guy still Prime Minister? And I agree, we should cut off all offensive military aid to Israel.
Netanyahu believes we are the United States of Israel, instead of America. It’s time we cutoff the spigot, and let Netanyahu fend for himself until the Israeli citizenry rises up, and gets rid of him and his right-wing cabal of crazies for good.
We aren’t doing Israel or ourselves any good by supporting the status quo and Netanyahu’s dystopian vision for the Palestinian people’s future.
When Netanyahu tells us it’s his job to make sure this never happens again; I disagree, it was his job to make sure this never happened in the first place. And from that perspective, he failed miserably!
if president biden is as serious as he claims to be about fighting the existential threat to democracy in the united states, he must capitulate to the fact that the majority of americans are in favor of demanding a ceasefire ... he must contend with the blatant hypocrisy of trying to send humanitarian aid into gaza, while also supplying israel with the bombs and weapons that have killed tens of thousands of innocent palestinians ... he must also contend with the blatant hypocrisy of denouncing the atrocious war crimes committed by russia in the ukraine, while not condemning the same or similar war crimes that israel continues to commit in gaza ... joe biden must realize that the united states' ongoing support of a genocidal war by an authoritarian leader of a far-right political party can hand the 2024 election to the dictator that he so boldly claims he needs to defeat in order to preserve american democracy ...
i agree 100% Professor Reich! America's support of israel by sending it an almost unlimited supply of arms is feeding the growth and maintenance of this IMmoral monster. i don't have any easy answers (i assume easy answers for controlling israel's insatiable bloodthirst have already been tried, or suggested at least) but i do think that america should stop sending offensive arms to israel, at least until they stop their genocide -- and instead direct them all to ukraine!
NOTE: edited to remove evidence of a pre-coffee brain fart inspired typo.
For the time being, stop sending all those munitions to Israel. Instead, send them to Ukraine. Putin's maga-hat communists in the US will object (scream bloody murder) but there is probably a way to do this. For example, send the weapons to our NATO allies in Europe (before Dump's maga-heads destroy NATO to make Putin happy and give rise to a Dump Tower next to Lenin's Tomb in Moscow). The NATO allies can then keep those weapons, and ship their own weapons across to Ukraine as a kind of shell game. Meanwhile, let's hope the Israelis remove Naziyahoo from office and put in a civilized leader who will guide the region to a peaceful two-state solution (maybe under UN mandate). Finally, make all Hitler mustaches illegal in Israel/Gaza for the next thousand years.
You should send this excellent article to the New York Times as an Opinion Piece. Like Todd, I wish President Biden had withdrawn his support for Netanyahu long before this, and I hope he will take this opportunity albeit late in the day to make the right choice. However Todd, please don't abandon President Biden and the Democratic Party because of Gaza. A Trump administration would be so very much worse for both the U.S. and the world. The Democratic Party and President Biden himself, though imperfect, have done heroic and stellar work for the American people these past 3+ years, putting the economy back on track after years of "trickle-down economics" and strengthening the labor movement and other progressive forces in our country. Trump and the leadership of the increasingly MAGA-dominated Republican party have no interest in public service, problem-solving or even in telling the truth. They seek only to manipulate public opinion and tear down or capitalize upon what others have painstakingly built to enhance their own power, status and wealth. They are thoroughly corrupt and need to be soundly defeated.
"Israel is one of America’s closest allies." Nonsense. They've been selling weapons to Russia to use against Ukraine; their Prime Minister has repeatedly tried to interfere in US politics on behalf of the GQP, and they have several times acted against US interests in the Middle East and only been forced to stop by various US Presidents (Democrats and Republicans) threatening to withhold military aid. It's time Biden joined those Presidents.
As for Gaza, if Hamas is in the tunnels below ground, why is the IDF constantly bombing above ground? They have known about the tunnels for years. Why haven't they been preparing to fight a war in the tunnels? They have robots, sniffer dogs, and other means to make entering the tunnels safer, so why not use them to take the battle to the enemy?
I can think of only 2 reasons:
1. They are trying to fight the battle without endangering IDF soldiers while making it look like they are accomplishing something--at the cost of over 32,000 Palestinian lives.
2. They really want to expand Eretz Israel and drive all Palestinians out of its expanded borders.
Maybe both.
If they really want to end the war, why not return the illegally Occupied Territories to Egypt, Jordan, and Syria and let them deal with the founding of the Palestinian state?
It is absolutely imperative that the US be perfectly clear that America stands fully in support of the Israeli people, but that our Government, cannot stand in support of the Israeli Government’s openly and unabashedly slaughter of innocent Palestinian civilians, men, women, and children! A slaughter that is happening both with weapons of war and the inhumane result of war in the form of starvation and deprivation of the necessities of life! We in America are a better people than that!
Israel is one of the richest countries and has an overwhelming number of millionaires. And if Israel is running out of military supplies, to me, it's from poor planning. I don't understand why (other than fattening our military industry) we're supplying money and military supplies to Israel. This "war" is doing nothing for Israelis and is instead helping to grow more future Hamas fighters who will be even more determined to "destroy" Israel.
U.S weapon shipments and $3.8 billion annual funding to Apartheid Israel should have ended a long time ago. Israel is a racist nation that has treated Palestinians in Occupied Territories brutally for decades now and treated its Palestinian citizens (20% of Israel) as 3rd class citizens.
Not only could Biden stop sending Israel arms and aid (which implicates the US in genocide) but it could demand that Israel withdraw, and position US troops along the Gaza-Israel border to ensure aid gets in and ensure the genocidal IDF don’t return under the orders of their quasi-fascist government (a peacekeeping force could also be sent to the West Bank to ensure Israel halts all abuses and ceases its continual theft of Palestinian land). Britain and others could assist in this peacekeeping force.
This has been done before in various countries and conflicts e.g. in Kosovo, where the the NATO-led peacekeeping force KFOR still operates, in response to the Yugoslav wars and the threat of ongoing genocide, humanitarian disaster and displacement of a million people. It would arguably cost less to do this than send arms to assist Israel in massacring Palestinians.
Only in technical publications is there ever any mention of the enablers of the war; Hamas leaders in Qatar, Hezbollah leaders, Iranian supporters, Saudi enablers, Yemeni and Houthi leaders, and U.S. war hawks. I suppose there are a dozen PhD theses in progress on this topic. We, the general public are mostly in the dark.
In twenty years time, possibly even 10 years time, four of us are of such an age that we will probably be dead; you Robert, me, Trump and Biden. Your history, Robert, will surely be respected, I'll be forgotten, Trump will be remembered for his attempted insurrection.
And Biden?
Biden will be remembered for enabling the Genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza. He has supported Netanyahu with political cover, vociferous support and the advanced weapons used to murder tens of thousands of unarmed civilians, and he has acted without American political mandate and even against his own Party and a majority of his own countrymen. He, personally, has Gazan's blood on his hands.
If Biden loses the Presidential election in November, it will certainly be largely due to his direct personal involvement in the murders in Gaza. I think he would do better to step aside now and let someone with cleaner hands take over the battle against Trump.
“Netanyahu says he intends to press ahead with the attack nevertheless. "We'll go there. We're not going to leave them. You know, I have a red line. You know what the red line is? That October 7 doesn't happen again. Never happens again." —Netanyahu
Ironically, the only reason Israel was attacked is because of Netanyahu and his “right-wing” regime. They ignored the intelligence, moved more than half their troops from Gaza to the West Bank months before the attack, and took over eight hours to dispatch a military force to counter Hamas’s rampage.
The only question we should be asking ourselves is how is this guy still Prime Minister? And I agree, we should cut off all offensive military aid to Israel.
Netanyahu believes we are the United States of Israel, instead of America. It’s time we cutoff the spigot, and let Netanyahu fend for himself until the Israeli citizenry rises up, and gets rid of him and his right-wing cabal of crazies for good.
We aren’t doing Israel or ourselves any good by supporting the status quo and Netanyahu’s dystopian vision for the Palestinian people’s future.
When Netanyahu tells us it’s his job to make sure this never happens again; I disagree, it was his job to make sure this never happened in the first place. And from that perspective, he failed miserably!
The sooner Netanyahu is out the better.
if president biden is as serious as he claims to be about fighting the existential threat to democracy in the united states, he must capitulate to the fact that the majority of americans are in favor of demanding a ceasefire ... he must contend with the blatant hypocrisy of trying to send humanitarian aid into gaza, while also supplying israel with the bombs and weapons that have killed tens of thousands of innocent palestinians ... he must also contend with the blatant hypocrisy of denouncing the atrocious war crimes committed by russia in the ukraine, while not condemning the same or similar war crimes that israel continues to commit in gaza ... joe biden must realize that the united states' ongoing support of a genocidal war by an authoritarian leader of a far-right political party can hand the 2024 election to the dictator that he so boldly claims he needs to defeat in order to preserve american democracy ...
i agree 100% Professor Reich! America's support of israel by sending it an almost unlimited supply of arms is feeding the growth and maintenance of this IMmoral monster. i don't have any easy answers (i assume easy answers for controlling israel's insatiable bloodthirst have already been tried, or suggested at least) but i do think that america should stop sending offensive arms to israel, at least until they stop their genocide -- and instead direct them all to ukraine!
NOTE: edited to remove evidence of a pre-coffee brain fart inspired typo.
For the time being, stop sending all those munitions to Israel. Instead, send them to Ukraine. Putin's maga-hat communists in the US will object (scream bloody murder) but there is probably a way to do this. For example, send the weapons to our NATO allies in Europe (before Dump's maga-heads destroy NATO to make Putin happy and give rise to a Dump Tower next to Lenin's Tomb in Moscow). The NATO allies can then keep those weapons, and ship their own weapons across to Ukraine as a kind of shell game. Meanwhile, let's hope the Israelis remove Naziyahoo from office and put in a civilized leader who will guide the region to a peaceful two-state solution (maybe under UN mandate). Finally, make all Hitler mustaches illegal in Israel/Gaza for the next thousand years.
You should send this excellent article to the New York Times as an Opinion Piece. Like Todd, I wish President Biden had withdrawn his support for Netanyahu long before this, and I hope he will take this opportunity albeit late in the day to make the right choice. However Todd, please don't abandon President Biden and the Democratic Party because of Gaza. A Trump administration would be so very much worse for both the U.S. and the world. The Democratic Party and President Biden himself, though imperfect, have done heroic and stellar work for the American people these past 3+ years, putting the economy back on track after years of "trickle-down economics" and strengthening the labor movement and other progressive forces in our country. Trump and the leadership of the increasingly MAGA-dominated Republican party have no interest in public service, problem-solving or even in telling the truth. They seek only to manipulate public opinion and tear down or capitalize upon what others have painstakingly built to enhance their own power, status and wealth. They are thoroughly corrupt and need to be soundly defeated.
Stop sending money and arms to Israel.
What use is "humanitarian" aid when Biden is also sending weapons to Israel to murder Palestinian civilians?
The devastation wrought by Israel and abetted by the Biden Administration will live in infamy.
"Israel is one of America’s closest allies." Nonsense. They've been selling weapons to Russia to use against Ukraine; their Prime Minister has repeatedly tried to interfere in US politics on behalf of the GQP, and they have several times acted against US interests in the Middle East and only been forced to stop by various US Presidents (Democrats and Republicans) threatening to withhold military aid. It's time Biden joined those Presidents.
As for Gaza, if Hamas is in the tunnels below ground, why is the IDF constantly bombing above ground? They have known about the tunnels for years. Why haven't they been preparing to fight a war in the tunnels? They have robots, sniffer dogs, and other means to make entering the tunnels safer, so why not use them to take the battle to the enemy?
I can think of only 2 reasons:
1. They are trying to fight the battle without endangering IDF soldiers while making it look like they are accomplishing something--at the cost of over 32,000 Palestinian lives.
2. They really want to expand Eretz Israel and drive all Palestinians out of its expanded borders.
Maybe both.
If they really want to end the war, why not return the illegally Occupied Territories to Egypt, Jordan, and Syria and let them deal with the founding of the Palestinian state?
It is absolutely imperative that the US be perfectly clear that America stands fully in support of the Israeli people, but that our Government, cannot stand in support of the Israeli Government’s openly and unabashedly slaughter of innocent Palestinian civilians, men, women, and children! A slaughter that is happening both with weapons of war and the inhumane result of war in the form of starvation and deprivation of the necessities of life! We in America are a better people than that!
Israel is one of the richest countries and has an overwhelming number of millionaires. And if Israel is running out of military supplies, to me, it's from poor planning. I don't understand why (other than fattening our military industry) we're supplying money and military supplies to Israel. This "war" is doing nothing for Israelis and is instead helping to grow more future Hamas fighters who will be even more determined to "destroy" Israel.
U.S weapon shipments and $3.8 billion annual funding to Apartheid Israel should have ended a long time ago. Israel is a racist nation that has treated Palestinians in Occupied Territories brutally for decades now and treated its Palestinian citizens (20% of Israel) as 3rd class citizens.
Not only could Biden stop sending Israel arms and aid (which implicates the US in genocide) but it could demand that Israel withdraw, and position US troops along the Gaza-Israel border to ensure aid gets in and ensure the genocidal IDF don’t return under the orders of their quasi-fascist government (a peacekeeping force could also be sent to the West Bank to ensure Israel halts all abuses and ceases its continual theft of Palestinian land). Britain and others could assist in this peacekeeping force.
This has been done before in various countries and conflicts e.g. in Kosovo, where the the NATO-led peacekeeping force KFOR still operates, in response to the Yugoslav wars and the threat of ongoing genocide, humanitarian disaster and displacement of a million people. It would arguably cost less to do this than send arms to assist Israel in massacring Palestinians.
Only in technical publications is there ever any mention of the enablers of the war; Hamas leaders in Qatar, Hezbollah leaders, Iranian supporters, Saudi enablers, Yemeni and Houthi leaders, and U.S. war hawks. I suppose there are a dozen PhD theses in progress on this topic. We, the general public are mostly in the dark.
In twenty years time, possibly even 10 years time, four of us are of such an age that we will probably be dead; you Robert, me, Trump and Biden. Your history, Robert, will surely be respected, I'll be forgotten, Trump will be remembered for his attempted insurrection.
And Biden?
Biden will be remembered for enabling the Genocide of the Palestinians in Gaza. He has supported Netanyahu with political cover, vociferous support and the advanced weapons used to murder tens of thousands of unarmed civilians, and he has acted without American political mandate and even against his own Party and a majority of his own countrymen. He, personally, has Gazan's blood on his hands.
If Biden loses the Presidential election in November, it will certainly be largely due to his direct personal involvement in the murders in Gaza. I think he would do better to step aside now and let someone with cleaner hands take over the battle against Trump.
President Biden has the legal and moral justification for stopping Israel by force
1. Slow arms shipments to Israel to a trickle. If that fails...
2. Stop delivery of military spare parts to Israel. If that fails...
3. Admit 10,000 Palestinian refugee families to America as a humanitarian act.
(Failing means no action within 14 days. And, announce this stepwise plan to the world.)