On Oct. 27, three weeks into Israel’s punishing counterattack in Gaza, top Biden officials privately told a small group assembled at the White House what they would not say in public: Israel was regularly bombing buildings without solid intelligence that they were legitimate military targets.

The Israeli Embassy in Washington denied claims that Israel Defense Forces hit targets with insufficient intelligence, saying the IDF is committed to “international law” and “applies a thorough legal process in the selection of targets and invests significant resources to minimize harm to civilians.”

This article, based on interviews with 20 administration officials and outside advisers, examines how Biden, more than five months after the Oct. 7 attacks, has found himself deeply entangled in a war he does not want and that threatens to become a defining element of his tenure. His allies privately acknowledge that it has done him significant damage domestically and globally and could easily become his biggest foreign policy cataclysm.

  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    8 months ago

    This article, based on interviews with 20 administration officials and outside advisers, examines how Biden, more than five months after the Oct. 7 attacks, has found himself deeply entangled in a war he does not want

    He can stop selling them weapons anytime he wants. He can stop running interference for them at the UN anytime he wants. He is proactively acting to enable Netanyahu’s genocide.

    If he doesn’t want this genocide, he should stop supporting it.

  • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
    17·
    8 months ago

    And who is the primary beneficiary? Russia.

    Who also was found to be supporting Hamas, including funding? I had a lot going on in my life at that time but I thought Russia was determined to have done so?

    They are not solely to blame, but this might just put Trump back into the White House, just as leaking Hillary Clinton’s emails did the last time.

    Also the federal fiscal year started last October, and we are currently in month #6, with still no budget for THIS CURRENT YEAR. Dems want to support Ukraine more and halt funding for Israel less while Repubs want to do the exact opposite, and in the meantime there is NO budget.

    It sounds like it was quite a strategic move on their part, to push our buttons like this. Therefore perhaps we should expect more like it in the future?

      • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
        13·
        8 months ago

        No, I guess I would have to hunt around for the article saying how Russia was pushing Hamas to move forward quicker, and gave them weapons. Biden is just responding to the situation as it unfolds. And now Ukraine isn’t getting the aid that the USA had promised, in large part due to the situation in Israel.

        • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOP
          52·
          8 months ago

          Biden can bypass congress to give Ukraine arms if he wants to like he did for israel. He has also secretly sent 100 shipments of weapons and bombs to israel. This logic makes zero sense.