The Biden administration allowed Israel unprecedented leeway to carry out its military offensive, despite the enormous death and devastation it inflicted on Gaza. Former Israeli ambassador, Michael Herzog, made a startling admission about Biden’s support:

“God did the State of Israel a favour that Biden was the president during this period. We fought [in Gaza] for over a year and the administration never came to us and said, ‘ceasefire now.’ It never did. And that’s not to be taken for granted.”

His remarks encapsulated a broader sentiment that the White House gave Benjamin Netanyahu all the political space he needed to execute the military offensive, which has claimed the lives of more than 52,000 Palestinians, mainly women and children.

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    Gee, I thought the most progressive administration ever was totally working to pressure netanyahu behind the scenes.

    It’s almost as though centrists were lying to the left yet again.

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    biden was always a two faced opportunist at best but likely just a racist pimp for the superpacs. he did infinitely more for his removed drug-addict shitstain son than thousands of starving infants in gaza.

    hope he rots in hell

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      His racism was not simply driven by donations. Biden has been a loud & avowed racist throughout his entire life. He was against school desegregation, proclaiming he didn’t want his kids growing up in a ”racial jungle.” He was close friends with Strom Thurmond, the super racist fuck who Biden delivered a eulogy for. He was a close associate of white supremacists throughout the country and in politics. He openly did not value Arab lives, and called for their deaths with ease, and targeted them in writing the Patriot Act. He openly targeted black Americans with his crime bill, and led the push for a different set of mandatory minimums against black people.

      People forget, but the entire reason Biden was brought in as Obama’s vp was to appease the racists in the party. There was significant resistance to a black candidate, and a lot of Hillary supporters declaring they would never vote for a black man to be president. The whole birther movement was intentionally started by the Clinton camp. But Biden was the most famously racist in the party, so they hoped he would bring these people back into the fold.

      To see Biden launch his post-Obama presidential campaign, touting himself as anti-racist because he was Obama’s vp, made me feel so fucking sick inside. I never believed he was doing a damn thing to prevent the genocide. Biden called for this genocide throughout his political life, and this exactly what he’s always wanted.

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        i didn’t knew these older details about this hack. getting scum like him as president is the reason why we have the half country sitting home than take part in farce of an election, even if it meant getting trump elected. something that blue maga don’t understand. they are still just braying trump this trump that instead of pushing for reform in dnc.