Biden officials alarmed by soaring Palestinian death toll in Gaza

US military advisors also have been directly helping the IDF plan the invasion into Gaza. He's definitely trying to play dumb, probably because there's actual backlash to this stuff that's reaching the mainstream. Like, when you get Wolf Blitzer of all people stunned speechless on live TV at the IDF justification for striking a refugee camp, you know it's out of hand over there.

So god damned stupid/malicious. Both him and the majority of Europe it seems said something to the like off: Israel are allowed to defend themselves. Defend themselves on Palestinian land. With weapons sold by us. And now we "encourage" restraint, like Israel has ever done that when it comes to civilians. They are more than happy to bomb the women and children being used as shields by Hamad.

Old sack of shit really convinced himself he could play this of without losing voters. Bro I've been routinely disappointed by your half measures and absolute failures to do what you were voted there to do, fuck. off.

went on tv and announced that we would completely back Israel no matter what they did?

That never happened. In fact, a few days after the attack by Hamas, Biden warned Israel to follow the rules of war.

I think they were expecting a much more restrained military response, rather than "1 out of every 200 Palestinians in Gaza is now dead, and the number is rising with no end in sight"

For comparison, from 2003-2005 in Iraq, around 30,000 civilians died, which was closer to 1 out of every 2000 Iraqis, and it was (rightly) considered a major fucking problem, both morally and strategically/politically.

"officials stunned that the thing they saw happening and enabled with gifts still happening"

More importantly, it makes it increasingly hard to justify US interventionist policies in Ukraine. Biden has simultaneously strengthened relations between Russia and the Middle East while weakening the position of NATO in Ukraine to some degree.

All the signs were there that this was the WRONG FUCKING DECISION. After pulling out of Afghanistan and settling one 20 year long Middle Eastern quagmire, I cannot for the life of me understand why he voluntarily entered the US into another one even if it was through one degree of separation. This is one of the all-time stupidest political blunders, and I firmly believe it could cost Biden the election next year.

Beyond that, the US is knowingly enabling Israel's bloodlust after Netanyahu and Likud spent the last twenty years frothing at the mouth, waiting for the opportunity to commit genocide while unifying Israel and wiping out what remained of the Palestinian people. It is completely fucking repugnant, and it truly seems like we are witnessing a tearing of the social fabric of society on all sides. I fear for what the next twenty years are going to look like more and more everyday.

For reference, at 500,000 the Russian invasion death toll sits at just under 25% of the total population of Gaza. So far 0.3% of the population are reported as casualties since the Hamas attack on Oct 7th. Let's not forget that figure includes any deaths from Hamas rockets that misfired and landed in Gaza (about 10-30% of them do that and they fired thousands of rockets), as well as any Hamas terrorists killed. Hamas does not differentiate casualties, instead calling them all civilians and attributing them all to Israel.

Notice that sending bombs doesn't necessarily end up with thousands of civilians dead. Ukraine has been getting plenty of bombs and the number of civilian casualties in Russia and Russian occupied territory is negligible. Even Russia's civilian infrastructure bombing campaigns took 2 years to kill as many civilians as Israel killed in the last 2 weeks and were already barbaric by all standards.

Idk, just keep sending bombs I guess?

Inb4 bombs don't kill people, people kill people

• We also cast doubt on the death counts, even though they were verified by third parties and found to be accurate for every prior conflict

• We then refused to apologize when fucking hamas of all people showed the receipts 2 days later with name, age, and Israeli-issued ID number

• We also sent diplomats to Israel multiple times throughout the conflict and encouraged them to "defend" themselves

• We also pretended that we have no ability to force a pause in the conflict, even though we recently admitted we successfully paused Israeli attacks twice to get US citizens through Rafah crossing

• We blocked multiple UNSC resolutions even after forcing the changes through that we bitched about in the first place

• We waited multiple days to even mention the islamophobic attack that led to a Palestinian boy being stabbed to death and his mother being hospitalized

• We then patronized American Muslims by shifting the conversation to domestic islamophobia rather than actually addressing their grievances of America's decades of involvement in destabilizing the Muslim world and killing of innocent civilians

• We silenced officials who spoke out against excessive violence by the IDF and made memos preventing the mention of a ceasefire

• We sent 2 aircraft carriers to the Eastern Mediterranean to support Israel and ensure no neighboring nations could prevent the massacre against Gazan women and children

• We pushed for tens of billions of dollars in aid to a country thousands of miles away led by an openly fascist and genocidal governing party. A country that we have sent over a hundred billion dollars of aid in total since its founding.

• A member of our government (paraphrasing) said "civilians die in war 🤷‍♂️" without any reprimand

• As commander-in-chief, we authorized American military specialists to help plan the ground invasion into Gaza

• We didn't give a damn about hundreds (at least) of Palestinian-Americans who were literally starving to death and were stuck in Gaza as it was bombed for weeks

• So many more things I could write an essay on it

Biden administration:

*billions of dollars

Muslims didn’t exist 3000 years ago.

The US hasn't sent any military equipment to Israel since the attack on October 7.

Biden requested a package, but Congress hasn't yet approved it. It consists mainly of missile defense systems, not weapons for the current offensive. And it includes an almost equal dollar amount in humanitarian aid.

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I can't help be cynical that this sudden concern comes at the same time that Arab American Organisations have indicated they may ask their communities to sit out the next election.

The jewish population isn't a monolith. There are some orgs that back Israel, and others, like Jewish Voice for Peace which do incredible work advocating for Palestinian liberation.

Probably some sciencey poll on it. I had to change my route recently because of a protest against this war by Jewish groups blocked my train station one night.