2y ago

Rashida Tlaib claims in video that Biden supports Palestinian genocide

www.theguardian.com

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He pretty clearly does.
Raz Segal, associate professor of Holocaust and genocide studies, is clear: the world is witnessing a genocide and is standing by.
Textbook case of genocide
Joe biden has claimed this more or less himself, saying he's a Zionist at heart, though his actions have started to be a little bit more moderate on the issue of Palestinian genocide.
Yes.
He pretty clearly doesn't
- Israel: Hi, we're bombing hospitals, schools, ambulances, refugee camps, and areas we forced innocent people into. Help pay for it?
  Biden: Oh hell yes.
  
  "Yeah go ahead" is still supporting genocide.
  
  Complete mischaracterization of the truth. Hey! Finally something conservatives and Lemmy users can bond over!
She's gone over the top many times before, including when she ridiculed Hillary Clinton before the 2016 election. It's understandable she'd be upset with what's going on. But she needs to act like a leader, and this really isn't it.
- Where you been boo?! You think that the only Palestinian in congress, speaking for the plight of the people in Gaza (regardless of your opinion) shows a lack of leadership? It sounds like you want her to be more of a follower? Please tell me, what should she say? Because obviously she has to say something?
  
  There's TinyPizza again. Like the neighborhood stalker.
- I mean she's not wrong. Bidens current stance of "support and ask questions later" is very much tantamount to supporting genocide. In the current situation the least you'd expect of the American president is to leave Israel to fend for itself, not send them aircraft carriers and military aid. For comparison in the 1980s Reagan (yes, Reagan) called the Israeli PM and basically ordered him to stop the bombing of West Beirut immediately. The bombing stopped in 20 minutes.
  
  president is to leave Israel to fend for itself, not send them aircraft carriers and military aid.
  Sure, Biden is wrong to stop a regional war. You want KIA numbers? That's certainly the way to get them.
- Ah right, because acting like a leader means falling in line.
  
  Acting like a leader means to consider how your language might move others perhaps in ways you don't want them to move.
- She’s gone over the top many times before, including when she ridiculed Hillary Clinton before the 2016 election.
  Or "why centrists are really mad at her."
- ^This comment is a violation of community rules: Referring to all Palestinians as "terrorists" is bigoted and racist. I ask the moderators to please consider banning this user on a more permanent basis, as this sort of rhetoric is the only thing they ever contribute.
  
  That this is allowed repetitively is rather telling.
  
  When did they refer to all Palestinians as terrorist?
  Tlaib supports a Palestinian one state model with the total elimination of the State of Israel.
  
  Bad news bro, in several countries, including this one, Hamas has been legally declared a terrorist organization.
  So far, she has refused to specifically condemn Hamas for its slaughter of Israelis on October 7, has fundraising ties to at least three Hamas-linked activists, including one who served prison time for his connection to the terror group, and has publicly defended those chanting calls for genocide of the Jewish people.
- Projection?
  
  Nah, we haven't even broke the seal on those two carrier strike groups yet. Maybe we'll get lucky and Iran will do something dumb and necessitate a demonstration of what a CSG is capable of.

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