Biden Demands Immediate Gaza Cease-Fire in Call With Israel’s Netanyahu
He also called on Israel to take immediate steps “to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering, and the safety of aid workers” and “made clear that U.S. policy with respect to Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel’s immediate action on these steps,” according to the White House statement.
I don't think the title is accurate. I don't have access to the full text of the WSJ article, but according to the Guardian
He underscored that an immediate ceasefire is essential to stabilize and improve the humanitarian situation and protect innocent civilians, and he urged the prime minister to empower his negotiators to conclude a deal without delay to bring the hostages home.
Unless I'm missing something, Biden is not demanding a unilateral Israeli cease-fire. The cease-fire is still conditional on the release of the hostages.
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Has anyone told Biden that israel is actively violating a binding UN ceasefire resolution?
Lol at the UN being binding
All UNSC resolutions are binding.
Though israel has ignored like 160 other UN resolutions (not all security council) so international law doesn't mean much since nobody enforces it.
Maybe Biden can write poems and sing songs about how much he wants to genocide to stop.
Words are irrelevant while he continues to send them the tools they use to carry out the genocide.
"you better stop using all of those guns and bombs I sold you, or else! Also the high-end fighter jets should be arriving this week, ttyl"
I know you were joking, and it's still bad, but the jets order is for 5 years from now. Which is longer than sometime this week.
Strong words are nice, would have been better 6 months ago.
At this point, it’s time to stop sending them more bombs at a minimum. Biden gets on the phone and says this bullshit, then turns around and circumvents Congress to sends billions in bombs anyway. Bibi responds by going in Israeli news media and just dunks on him for being Israel’s lil removed, it’s pathetic.
At a certain point, and maybe we’ve already surpassed this - Biden will lose voters to Trump because Biden’s “Israel First” policy doesn’t sound as good as Trump’s “America First”
He's still trying to get away with just talkie-talkie (with a wink and a nod) to save his presidency in the upcoming election.
Anybody who is not a commited tribalist and has even the slightest wiff of skepticism is by now, having seen all that Biden has said and done in the last 3 months, well beyond believing mere words from this US Administration: only actual actions (not promises of actions, actually doing it) will even just begin to offset the months of actions in the very opposite direction (including the recent sending of 2000lb bombs to Israel, since those are well known for causing massive civilian casualties when used).
Sanctions on Israel would be a good start.
Upon reading this headline, my initial question was “or what?”
Biden has previously signaled that he wouldn’t halt arms shipments to Israel and has said U.S. support for the country in its defense against Hamas is unflinching.
This week, the Biden administration authorized the transfer to Israel of over 1,000 500-pound bombs and over 1,000 small-diameter bombs, U.S. officials said.
Oh.
One day later and we can conclude that there is no ceasefire and this was a PR stunt from Biden.
Finally.
I wonder if the recent news stories about "Lavender" and Israel's grotesquely high acceptable civilian casualty rates had any bearing on this seeming shift in policy.
no doubt the IDF indiscriminately blowing up aid workers has something to do with it
Western aid workers, most importantly.
Over 100 aid workers have been killed since last October, but the others weren't nearly as newsworthy due to being of Arab descent.
In circumstances eerily similar to the recent drone strikes on WCK, aid workers and medical staff working with Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) were bombed and killed by Israeli forces even though they had notified the IDF of their location, and their convoy was fired upon as they tried to evacuate workers and their families from northern Gaza.
How fucked that indiscriminately blowing up children isn't sufficient, but I'll take whatever positive progress possible.
Probably not as much as an American citizen being killed by Israel on Monday, unfortunately.
Probably more likely the recent WSJ polls showing him losing his ass across all swing states. He's a cipher. He'll just move with the numbers.
Its not like the absurdity of Israels ongoing genocide stopped him before; philosophically, Biden basically is a Zionist. He's one of the most pro-Israel Democrats there is.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/04/03/trump-biden-polls-2024-00150322
This will be a bit of a tangent, but I can't believe people approved of Trump's time in office. Are people's memories that short? Every day was something else crazy. He basically caused this economic crisis by messing with the money in dumb ways, killed an Iranian general almost dragging us into a war, worsened this crisis in the Middle East, kids in concentration camps being separated from their families, unbelievable high amounts of corruption and turnover, impeached twice, botched Covid because they were mad at blue cities and didn't like governing, and it ended with an attempted coup. It just never ended. Every day was something new and stressful. 51% of people saying they approved of Trump's time in office from that article you posted just blows my mind. Just shows how dire straights America is in, how strong the propaganda is in Fox News and OAN.
And the sad part is that it doesn't matter what I think, it only matters what the people in those swing states they polled think.
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I'm also going to speculate Iran's threats to retaliate for the consulate bombing has their attention. Biden doesn't want to start a war with Iran before the election, or at least I hope not