Israeli officials suggested that the increased military aid was part of a deal to get Netanyahu to agree to the Gaza ceasefire deal. Trump’s envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, has said he’s pushing for the full implementation of the agreement, but the ceasefire is very fragile as Netanyahu doesn’t want to implement the second phase.

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      It was a hill Biden & the democrats didn’t need to die on. The last year in Gaza was inexcusable and gaslighting potential voters was embarrassing. Shame on the democrats for making genocide a wedge issue

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          Look I voted dem, my state is still blue & I can for once in my life say I’m proud of my governor. Biden was complicit in genocide and it was one of many major factors that cost the election. Remember Biden could have simply enforced the Leahy Act and stop providing mutinous at any point. Everyone could see the war crimes and bs like temp piers. He could have kept his promise and only run one term, allow for an engaging democratic primary and a graceful exit. BUT here we are

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            I’m certainly not happy with what Biden did, but it was far from unpredictable. He just carried on the policy of intense support both parties have followed since Israel was founded. Let’s be honest though. If Biden and Harris enforced the Leahy Act, all you would have heard from the right is that Democrats are antisemites who protect Hamas terrorists.

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              If Biden and Harris enforced the Leahy Act, all you would have heard from the right is that Democrats are antisemites who protect Hamas terrorists.

              We don’t give a flying fuck what “the right” would say; we give a fuck about stopping genocide.

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              No, previous administrations were willing to reign Israel in - even Trump has proven willing to - Biden was uniqigue in his complete, no limits, full support of Israel’s most horrific crimes since it’s creation.

              If Biden and Harris enforced the Leahy Act, all you would have heard from the right is that Democrats are antisemites who protect Hamas terrorists.

              “We had to violate the law, otherwise the right would call us names!” (spoilers, they called you those names anyway.)

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          BlueMAGA once again demonstrating that they don’t think foreigners are human.

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            I’m sure the foreigners Trump puts into the concentration camps he is building will thank you for thinking of them.

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              As ever, the future crimes you’re imagining Trump committing matter more to you than the crimes democracts already committed.

              Spare me, you’ve already said that genocide doesn’t matter compared to what colour of fascist is running the USA, don’t pretend you care about foreigners being put in camps beyond being a vector to crow about orange man bad.

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                I’m not imagining anything. I am basing my decisions on what Trump has said!

                It isn’t that the genocide doesn’t matter to me. It is just out of the two possibilities in the election, neither would offer me the outcome I want (ending the war). So I based my decision on other issues, like LGBT rights, immigrant rights, abortion access, not wrecking the economy with tariff stupidity, etc

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                  I’m not imagining anything. I am basing my decisions on what Trump has said!

                  As ever, BlueMAGA shitlibs care more about what politicians say than what they do. The lives of foreigners aren’t nearly as important to them as decorum and plausible deniability, after all!

                  It isn’t that the genocide doesn’t matter to me.

                  Actually it is, as evidenced by the fact that you only care when Trump does it. (Or says it, we’ve already established you care more about rhetoric than actions.).

                  ending the war

                  You mean the genocide.

                  So I based my decision on other issues, like LGBT rights, immigrant rights, abortion access, not wrecking the economy with tariff stupidity, etc

                  Turns out, that imperial boomerang always comes home.

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      Manipulate? Trump is so 40000 IQ that he forced Biden to look like a fucking puppet on the world stage, giving in to every single one of netanyahu’s demands.

      Trump WAS the harm reduction candidate, he got a ceasefire brokered before he was fucking president. All while Biden was licking israel’s asshole begging for scraps.