Crabgrass earlier wrote that Biden is being too much a Zionist; from history dating to 1948 and Truman's having Jewish voters and no Arab voters, onward, policy has been Zionist, and AIPAC and other lobbying and money donors have been active. Getting more and more so.
This is not the Israel that negotiated over two states. This is rabid all-for-us coalition action, Netanyahu bad enough, the slobs he has had to take into his ministries to have a coalition are much, much, much worse. Combined they are a rogue government, one so bad that it awakens the moral sense in college students; those most concerned with their future careers and lives and having to pay student loans nonetheless will stand for what's right. And have stood so. Seeing daily evidence of humans starved, killed, maimed and made into homeless refugees forced hither and yon by air dropped leaflets before the bombs fall. Hospitals and schools destroyed. Approaching forty thousand dead Arabs. And Rafah beckons over-the-top foul war mongers.
The Republicans? https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/coons-mccaul-israel-report-weapons-pause/story?id=110134778
Compare: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pausing-military-aid-key-tool-presidents-foreign-policy/story?id=110117137 --- which states.
In the summer of 1981, President Reagan held back the delivery of U.S. fighter jets to Israel for two months after it bombed a nuclear reactor in Iraq.
In July 1982, he halted a shipment of cluster shells to Israel over how Israel used the weapons during its invasion of Lebanon. American officials at the time were reviewing if the use of the weapons violated an agreement between the U.S. and Israel.
So ignore that, that was then and today's not the day for Republican kissing the Gipper's ass. So rhetorically flexible they bend over to meet themselves going the other way from their "treasured" history of using might to curb Israeli over exuberance for killing in questionable ways and numbers.
Republicans overlook recent history as well as past actions under their guys. (When their guys used a leash when needed, they silently stood in place.)
Republican whoring that way goes down to their grassroots, e.g., here and here.
Blinken, authoritative in foreign policy over decades of public service, in other administrations and in private consulting before joining Biden's cabinet, himself being Jewish, willingly is point man for doing what moral necessity demands. This is not about Jewishness, it is about the moral limits of how to wage war and yet avoid gross levels of unnecessary civilian carnage. The Israelis simply overstepped bounds, and if we give them yet more heavy bombs they will continue to irresponsibly use them. They are who they are, they are not like earlier Israeli governments, which accepted two state realities and acted, in retrospect, with grater decency.
AND --- These present Republicans are, in an election year, whoring for Jewish votes by standing on Arab corpses waving a Star of David Flag.
They should stop.
BOTTOM LINE: Do you trust these guys?
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