It is absolutely outrageous to say that President Biden supports the genocide of the Palestinian civilians. It's incredibly ignorant to attack President Biden and not vote for him on the basis of a claim that he supports Israel targeting Palestinian civilians or anything similar. I am shocked that anyone would make this completely false claim. It is a plainly false claim. Apparently some Arab Americans who may have supported some democrats in previous elections are threatening to help remove their advocate and replace him with somebody who is bigoted and is their enemy. This is the strategy known as cutting ✂️ off your nose to spite your face.
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As a start of better things to come, President Biden gets Netanyahu to allow humanitarian aid to those in Gaza
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Despite setbacks, Biden reaches aid breakthrough on Israel trip
World Updated on Oct 18, 2023 6:15 PM EST — Published on Oct 18, 2023 2:56 PM EST
President Joe Biden is departing his trip to Israel — meant as a show of continued solidarity with the ally — with a significant breakthrough on providing humanitarian assistance to Palestinians.
The president announced the U.S. will be providing $100 million in humanitarian assistance for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank to support the more than a million displaced people in need of water, food, medical care and other needs.
Israel and Egypt agreed to the movement of aid from Egypt into Gaza "based on the understanding that there will be inspections and that the aid should go to civilians, not to Hamas," President Biden said in remarks Wednesday. The president spoke after meeting with Israeli first responders and families who have lost loved ones in the conflict.
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Nobody argues that this is sufficient, but aid had to start somewhere or not start at all. President Biden was able to begin this process. He convinced Prime Minister Netanyahu to allow humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians. This was a negotiation. If the aid isn't intercepted by Hamas, then Prime Minister Netanyahu agreed to allow more humanitarian aid to follow.
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President Biden warns Israel against occupying Gaza
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Biden Considers Israel Visit, Warns Against Gaza Occupation
- President appeared in ‘60 Minutes’ interview on Sunday
- Hamas doesn’t represent all Palestinian people, Biden says
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President Biden warns Israel against repeating our mistakes
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In Israel, he expressed unwavering support in the wake of Hamas' attacks, which killed some 1,400, and secured an agreement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war cabinet to allow humanitarian aid to enter Gaza. But he also urged officials to practice restraint as they ramp up operations against Hamas in Gaza, where thousands have been killed so far in the conflict.
Biden warned Israel not to repeat what he called the "mistakes" made by the United States in the aftermath of 9/11 -- a message he echoed from the White House on Thursday night.
"I cautioned the government of Israel not to be blinded by rage," Biden said in the Oval Office, his second speech there. "And here in America, let us not forget who we are. We reject all forms, all forms of hate, whether against Muslims, Jews or anyone. That's what great nations do, and we are a great nation."
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The Financial Times reports that President Biden cautioned Israel and unveiled the deal for humanitarian aid
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Joe Biden warns Israel to avoid 9/11 ‘mistakes’
US president says country should not be ‘consumed’ by rage and unveils deal for some aid to enter Gaza from Egypt
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From whitehouse.gov, President Biden's words
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I also spoke with President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority and reiterated that the United States remains committed to the Palestinian people’s right to dignity and to self-determination. The actions of Hamas terrorists don’t take that right away.
Like so many other, I am heartbroken by the tragic loss of Palestinian life, including the explosion at a hospital in Gaza — which was not done by the Israelis.
We mourn every innocent life lost. We can’t ignore the humanity of innocent Palestinians who only want to live in peace and have an opportunity.
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NY Times reports that President Biden warned Israel that occupying Gaza would be a big mistake
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Biden Warns Israel Not to Occupy Gaza
While the president has stood strongly behind Israel since Hamas attacked, he said on “60 Minutes” that a new occupation of Gaza would “be a big mistake.”
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CNN President Biden warns Israel that Palestinian civilian suffering and casualties will erode support for Israel
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US warns Israel amid Gaza carnage it doesn’t have long before support erodes
Updated 2:38 PM EDT, Fri November 3, 2023
WashingtonCNN —
President Joe Biden and his top advisers are warning Israel with growing force that it will become increasingly difficult for it to pursue its military goals in Gaza as global outcry intensifies about the scale of humanitarian suffering there.
Biden, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken – who departed Thursday for Israel with a message on protecting civilian lives – have all explicitly pressed the case in recent private conversations with the Israelis, telling them that eroding support will have dire strategic consequences for Israel Defense Forces operations against Hamas.
Behind the scenes, American officials also believe there is limited time for Israel to try to accomplish its stated objective of taking out Hamas in its current operation before uproar over the humanitarian suffering and civilian casualties – and calls for a ceasefire – reaches a tipping point.
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President Biden warning Israel not to be consumed by rage
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From a previous diary I wrote explaining how President Biden's support for Israel has given him greater leverage and a better chance that Prime Minister Netanyahu would listen to his message of go slow and avoid Palestinian civilian casualties
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For some time, I have written that I suspected that part of President Biden's strategy in being so supportive publicly of Israel was to give him room and space to warn or even criticize Netanyahu in private. I had not read anything from the media suggesting this. It was my own read on the situation. Therefore, Prime Minister Netanyahu may feel like he has nothing to lose. He may feel that a major military conflict could lead Israeli citizens to back him as it becomes 'rally around the leader ' time. Consequently, I feel like if President Biden had not made the moves he did, then Netanyahu was likely to raze Gaza to the ground, to completely destroy it.
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However, that is likely to result in mass Palestinian civilian casualties. That likely would have caused the military conflict to widen. Iran would likely even further help the terrorist organizations that they sponsor, Hezbollah and Hamas, commit terrorist attacks. This would also have further enraged the Arab populations in various Arab nations, even those which have in recent history been allies of the United States.
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.However, by as journalists and experts below say, President Biden's forthright support for Israel and even being the first US president to visit Israel during a military conflict earned him support from and credibility with Israeli citizens. Equally important for this plan to work is an insistence that Israel abide by the Geneva convention, the rules of war, the rule of law, and prioritize avoiding mass Palestinian civilian casualties. This was crucial because President Biden backing away from Israel could not be seen to be out of the blue. Prior to this strong support for Israel, the loss of the backing of the United States and the federal government of the United States would not have been as great a loss. Now, due to the ground work President Biden laid down, I believe that Israeli citizens would be very upset with Prime Minister Netanyahu if his actions which led to mass Palestinian civilians caused President Biden and the United States to no longer support him and Israel because he rejected advice to minimize Palestinian civilian casualties.
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Now, he is in a position in which he has maximized the potential influence he could have upon Prime Minister Netanyahu and Israel. Thus, President Biden's cautions to Prime Minister Netanyahu to avoid any event that could result in mass Palestinian civilian casualties have the maximum chance of success.
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Katty Kay, "Yeah, the Brits have moved naval assets into the region as well. So they are very much in lock-step, the government is very much in lock-step, but there is some disconnect between the governments and the people, you have very big pro-Palestinian demonstrations in France, you have pro Palestinian demonstrations in London, and if you look at the domino effect of this, of any kind of big scale invasion of Gaza and even the atrocities that you know, the killings that we're seeing in the Southern part that we're seeing in the moment, I just cameback from London, it gets much more play in the European press than it does in the American press even, the Americans are trying to cover it too, but the dominoes will be that the Arab world gets impatient with the Israelis, loses faith with the Israelis, the Europeans lose with the Israelis, then the fear would be that the Americans do too if this ground invasion were to go on for a long time and we were to see night after night images of Palestinians being bombed in Gaza.
.Jonathon LeMire, " Yes certainly those images could further sway public opinion. Administration officials in Washington I have spoken with over the last couple of days they note that Israel has built this 300,000 plus reservist force near the border and there is only so long you can keep a group of that size there because there are economic impacts, logistical impacts, and at a certain point the order has to be given to go, but Israel right now is listening. US officials tell me they are very careful, they are not dictating military strategy, they want to make that very clear, a three star US Marine General over there now,other top officials as well advising Israel as to what the fight may hold ahead when they do go in and how difficult it will be and there is a sense here, senior Biden aides tell me that because the president has been so forthright with his support for Israel, going to Tel-Aviv, delivering speech after speech here in the United States backing the Israeli cause, he's bought some currency there and that Israel may be more inclined to listen to him , that they feel like he's bought in with him and therefore, they are more willing to listen to his message of take it slow. Be patient. Do the right thing. "
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Cutting ✂️ off your nose to spite your face is not a good strategy. Arab American voters may be frustrated and feel that President Biden has not addressed the injustice of Palestinian civilians more forcefully. There is incredibly inequity for Palestinian civilians! However, to accuse President Biden of supporting the genocide of Palestinian civilians is to make a false accusation against someone ywho is actually an advocate for the Palestinian civilians. Withholding a vote from President Biden enables Donald Trump to win. The overwhelming majority of Jewish Americans vote for Democratic Party candidates and they supported President Biden. If President Biden failed to support our ally Israel which has faced millenniums of antisemitism and the Holocaust after they were attacked by a terrorist organization, then he could have and would have lost votes from Jewish Americans. In reality, President Biden supports Israel and the Palestinian civilians. And whatever the frustrations that they might have with President Biden, they should know from what he has said and done, he is seeking justice for them and Donald Trump would be their enemy while President Biden is their supporter. Again, they may feel that President Biden hasn't gone far enough or that he has been too cautious in challenging Prime Minister Netanyahu, but he has warned Prime Minister Netanyahu against taking actions that will cause mass Palestinian civilian casualties. His public support for Israel after the terrorist attack has allowed him to privately warn Israel. Donald Trump would never be an advocate for the Palestinian civilians! And putting Donald Trump back in power and ending and eradicating our democracy will hurt Palestinian civilians, not help them.
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