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US President Joe Biden has suggested that Israel’s military response in Gaza has been “over the top” and said he is seeking a “sustained pause in the fighting” to help ailing Palestinian civilians.

“I’m of the view, as you know, that the conduct of the response in the Gaza Strip has been over the top,” Biden told reporters at the White House.

He added that he had been pushing for a deal to normalise Saudi Arabia-Israel relations, increased humanitarian aid for Palestinian civilians and a temporary pause in fighting to allow the release of hostages taken by Hamas.

“I’m pushing very hard now to deal with this hostage ceasefire,” Biden said. “There are a lot of innocent people who are starving, a lot of innocent people who are in trouble and dying, and it’s gotta stop.”

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Biden is such a dull piece of shit, my god. You guys really need to get rid of this walking corpse and get someone else to run against Trump.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Lots of options but none of them could beat Biden in a primary and potentially not beat Trump in a general.

You may not like Biden but he's preferable to the alternative.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Man Biden has a campaign to abandon him (and depending on who you ask vote for Trump) among Michigan Muslims, a critical and traditionally democrat-voting demographic in a battleground state. And he's losing the young voters who won him 2020 by the minute. With the way things are going Trump has the advantage with his fanatically loyal voter base.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We'll see how it shakes out. The democrats have overperformed in every election since 2018. I don't think Biden being old or Netanyahu doing a genocide will change the opinion of suburban voters who want abortion access

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

suburban voters who want abortion access

I mean yeah those people are probably going to vote, but Biden needs all his voter demographics to vote for him to win. His win depends on maintaining the house of paper that is the democratic voter base, so he can't afford to have two of those papers pulled out from under him. I'm not saying he'll certainly lose, but the current attitude that Biden has this in the bag even with his genocide is very much wrong.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The sad day when the "good" choice "only" supports a systematic ethnic cleansing campaign, in deed if not in speech.

Biden is entirely beatable, but it would take Democrats stepping up and nominating a candidate that wasn't the equivalent of soggy toast.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Is there a person who could realistically be president that would have resulted in the US cutting off support for Israel after October?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Realistically is more or less encoded "without ending the collusion between Democrats and Republicans." As it stands, the system is designed to reinforce their duopolistic control... and their followers, more concerned with winning than with fundamental human rights, allow it to continue.