It’s a moment of truth for Biden’s policy on Israel and the Palestinians – and at the least will make continued prevarication harder to disguise

Archived version: https://archive.ph/w5qaH

    • stembolts@programming.dev
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      7 months ago

      One of Obama’s biggest smh moments was when he set a line for Syria I think? Then did nothing.

      I would expect Biden, who was VP at the time to have learned from that. Will be curious to see.

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        7 months ago

        The Russians moved Assad’s poison gases out and burned them. Obama’s red line was never reached.

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    7 months ago

    He didn’t really mean it like that. What he meant was that regardless of Israel’s war crimes, he’ll still send them bombs and call anyone who disagrees an antisemite.

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      The red line just tells him when it’s time for him to say his heart goes out to the victims of all this “collateral damage”. Then he moves it again