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Biden: ‘Israel Has An Obligation Not To Harm My Reelection Chances’ (www.theonion.com)

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WASHINGTON—Responding to fallout from the Israeli military’s killing of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza, President Biden made an address Thursday asserting that Israel had an obligation not to harm his reelection chances.

“Let me be clear: Israel is bound by international law not to engage in any activities that undermine my ability to win a second term,” said Biden, emphasizing that if Israel did not reverse course and end civilian casualties soon, then progressive and Arab American voters were at extreme risk of sitting out November’s general election. “

Prime Minister Netanyahu and I have spoken on several occasions about the importance of keeping me in power, and he has assured me he will do everything he can to mitigate any domestic political fallout in the United States. Still, the damage this war has done to my polling cannot be ignored.” At press time, Biden quietly signed off on sending another 2,000 bombs to Israel to ensure he was reelected.

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[–] HelixDab2@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

To be very, very clear: it is in the best interests of Israel that Biden loses the election. Of the two choices that we realistically have in the US, it is in the best interests of the Palestinian people that Biden wins.

Trump will do everything he can to help Israel accelerate the genocide. Biden is at least making positive noises to stop the genocide, even if he's not doing anything yet.

[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Biden has done every single thing Netanyahu asked him to. From giving him all the weapons to building a pier. And Biden allowed israel to bomb to Iranian embassy. It's hard to surpass this level of compliance

Israel has also recently colonized a **massive **part of the West Bank recently and Biden approved it and blocked condemnation of it at the UN.

Only now WFC employees got murdered by israel are we seeing a slight shift in tone because it seems like Biden is desperately clawing back some voters for the election.

The only thing Trump could do worse is literally invade Iran and start WW3. Of course Trump could do that but it's very unlikely even for him, as he didn't do it in his first term and now has beef with Netanyahu over bombing Suleimani.