• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    There’s been lots of misleading headlines on this, but this is the first time they didn’t at least include the full quote in the article…

    “We’ll continue to provide military assistance to Israel until they get rid of Hamas, but we have to be careful – they have to be careful,” Biden said. “The whole world’s public opinion can shift overnight, we can’t let that happen.”

    He’s not criticizing Netanyahu, and he’s still saying he’ll support him no matter what.

    But for literal decades now Biden has been saying that to Israels government, and they’ve literally never listened, and Biden has never stopped supporting them.

    Why the fuck are people acting like either is going to suddenly happen now?

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      9 months ago

      Supporting Israel is not the same as supporting Netanyahu.

      Biden and Netanyahu have a decades-long relationship that has at times been strained. At the Monday evening reception, Biden said he once gifted Netanyahu a photo and wrote at the top: “I love you but I don’t agree with a damn thing you had to say.”

      “It’s about the same today,” Biden said, adding he’d “had my differences with some Israeli leadership.”

      Sounds like he’s criticizing Netanyahu.