In the days Biden spent blocking a United Nations resolution on Gaza, Israel killed scores of Palestinians.
  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    242·
    11 months ago

    So the proposal was altered multiple times because he didn’t want to vote for it, and then he didn’t vote for it anyway?

    He learned a lot from Joe Manchin.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    The vote is on a U.N. Security Council proposal, put forward by the United Arab Emirates and repeatedly whittled down just for Biden, that calls for limiting the hostilities in Gaza and expanding aid distribution.

    Days later, a similar U.N. resolution, this one in the General Assembly, which doesn’t have the power to take binding positions, passed 153-10; the U.S. was one of 10 nations, including several vassal states and Israel, to vote against it.

    Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has, like Biden, echoed Israel advocates’ talk of the country’s “right to defend itself” since the war started on October 7, but this week urged the U.S. to vote “YES” on the latest U.N. resolution.

    (The next day, Sanders modified his language to demand the U.S. “not veto a reasonable resolution to stop the hostilities.”) Republican hawk Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina also conceded this week that Israel could do more to limit civilian deaths.

    Also this week, six moderate House Democrats known for their national security backgrounds sent a letter to Biden, expressing their concern for Israel’s military strategy and the civilians they have killed.

    The resulting picture is one of Biden undermining his own campaign: alienating his base for a foreign ally likely to side with his GOP rival, and isolating the U.S. instead of rebuilding relationships post-Trump.

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      • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        11 months ago

        Jewish people in general tend to vote for Democrats (around 70% according to Pew) but there’s a contingent of ultra-orthodox (obviously far right) and retired Jewish people (especially in Florida, a traditional swing state) that are more swing voters but Florida is more red than purple now so they’re less important in presidential elections. So, it’s not a monolithic block. But way more democrats.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
          2·
          11 months ago

          There are lots of ultra-Orthodox Jews that are apolitical. They don’t keep up with U.S. politics and they don’t vote because they don’t want to be part of the system (despite benefitting from it in many ways).

          But retired Jews in Florida are another matter. That said- the older generation that leans right is dying out.

          (Source: am Jewish.)

      • Lasherz12@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 months ago

        Not really about Jews as much as it is about evangelicals wanting to use them to bring on the second coming. With evangelicals they uniformly side with Israeli fascists. This is also about the enormous lobbying power of AIPAC, which from any other nation than Israel would be considered a foreign-aligned agent lobbying firm subverting US elections.

        While they (Israel and AIPAC) stand down against Democrats who tow their lines, they absolutely prefer hawkish Republicans to be in charge because they are more aligned to their regional power-grabs as evidenced by Trump’s Israeli policy. I don’t personally understand democrats who kneel for a group who doesn’t prefer them at the end of the day no matter what they do, even support genocide in a few Democrats cases, but nobody has ever accused run of the mill Washington politicians of having shame.

  • Pratai@lemmy.ca
    23·
    11 months ago

    Isn’t this what ALL presidents do? By no means am I excusing the behavior, but they all take credit for the good, and pass blame on the bad.

    ALL of them.