Stop funding it.

Biden: "For fuck's sake, Israel, don't do something this monumentally stupid."

No points for guessing what comes next.

Or what?

Edit: FYI I'm not supporting Israel doing this

Massacring civilians is fine, but occupying is a bridge too far, I guess.

warehouse workers ask Jeff Bezos not to travel by private jet

Israel won't even need to occupy Gaza after they carpet bomb whats left of it into rubble. 😒

Biden "And definitely don't occupy 5 different countrys at the same time. Some of them for over 20 years. Come on man!"

Yeah, what will he or the Democrats do when Israel does occupy Gaza?

Continue to provide unequivocal support and money to Israel?

It's not like they'll do anything else like officially recognize Israel has been acting as a apartheid state causing mass human suffering which in turn grew more mass suffering and conflict.

“I think it’d be a big mistake,” Mr. Biden told “60 Minutes” on CBS in a conversation taped on Thursday and aired on Sunday night. “Look, what happened in Gaza, in my view, is Hamas and the extreme elements of Hamas don’t represent all the Palestinian people. And I think that it would be a mistake for Israel to occupy Gaza again.” But “taking out the extremists” there, he added, “is a necessary requirement.”

I'm not sure how anyone is taking this as a controversial take. Logistically, practically, and the urgent bloodthirst for revenge make this fucking hard to do. But this seems to me to be a pretty even keeled non polarizing take on a complex situation where there is justification for military action against a terrorist group, and that military action must be measured against the safety and needs of a civilian population.

It's ok I told the angry pitbull to not attack the baby I slathered in steak sauce. Anyway, off to golf.

The US is sending mix signals. Biden condemns Hamas, calls them terrorists, and funds the iron dome. Of course Israel thinks they have carte blanche in the region. Surrounded by hostile nations, what other nations in the world acts as aggressive as Israel. They do it because they know they have the full backing of the US. The question is will we live in a world without any Palestinians in the middle east soon - coz that's where we're headed.

Israel misspelled their defense system. Should be called the irony dome.

But he said he was convinced that “the Israelis are going to do everything in their power to avoid the killing of innocent civilians.”

Archive link: https://archive.ph/2023.10.16-012318/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/15/us/politics/biden-israel-gaza.html

Too late?

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