Netanyahu released a video in English directly attacking Biden and Blinken. "I told Secretary Blinken it's inconceivable that in the past few months, the administration has been withholding weapons and ammunitions to Israel".
As far as we are aware, only one shipment of weapons has been delayed or suspended and that was the one reported prior to Biden's announcement of a "red line" over Rafah, which he has thus far not enforced.
You can imagine how big of a tantrum the Prime Minister would be throwing if he were to face a more meaningful response from the United States for the first time in his life.
Imo he’s throwing a tantrum because he knows the US will ultimately give him everything he wants. If he earnestly believed the Biden admin had the guts to shut off the tap, I think he might actually be a little more deferential. Maybe I’m wrong though.
If it were a more logical less bombastic world leader I'd agree, but I don't think Netanyahu has a deferential setting. I think if Biden actually did something meaningful Bibi would threaten to nuke Gaza, not say he'd do better.
He’s throwing a tantrum at American voters because he always meddles in American elections in favor of the Republican because he is a fascist and republicans are fellow fascists. Republican political consultants work in both countries. Likud and the Republican party are the same party.
My problem with this take is it seems like you don’t understand Israeli politics. Which is why it’s nuts that you keep lecturing everyone on how easy this actually is.
I think the anxiety is that the US will start doing what we did to the Saudis in Yemen: we will only give them "defensive weapons."
Now, what exactly is a defensive weapon but an oxymoron, agreed. But I think that's the anxiety.
Unlike the Gulf, the Israelis really can't cozy up to China.
my thoughts exactly. The purpose of doing this is for low-info people who do not look for details, so they can be mad at Biden for something Biden has never done
It's very cool that Dem leaders are so terrified of AIPAC that they invited this conniving, corrupt genocidaire to address a joint session of Congress.
I'm not particularly happy about it, but it takes time to change an entire party's foreign policy. There are a lot of people in the back who you need but who aren't really paying much attention.
im absolutely convinced that even if we gave them literally everything they wanted it would not be enough. bibi would still be out here being a petulant child.
it's really odd (not odd) that the leader & commentators who screamed at us, mostly correctly, at every twist & turn by Putin's Russia & cutouts interfering in US elections really don't feel that Netanyahu's Israel & cutouts blatantly interfering quite reach the level of significant concern
And I'm also never going to let go the bloodthirsty Americans who I had previously thought were decent but who handwaved his presence away and crawled up my ass for pointing out his long history of bigotry and disinfo campaigns
The Dominionists are doing everything they can in order to bring about what they envision as the Rapture…without once considering that they are very probably wrong.
right? i hate this asshole so much. what do they even really bring to the table besides perpetual conflict? we could cut them off and it wouldn't make a damn bit of difference to US natl security
