President Joe Biden said for the first time Wednesday he would halt shipments of American weapons to Israel – which he acknowledged have been used to kill civilians in Gaza – if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders a major invasion of the city of Rafah.
I think this is a good breakdown of the situation, and sadly it’s pretty typical Biden: one side wants pizza, the other hamburger, and he offers a pizzaburger that no one likes.
Get a spine, man. You’re going to get called Hamas’ favorite president by the warmongers whether you cut off one bomb or all of them, so there’s no benefit to taking a symbolic stance while still allowing the operation to proceed. They can’t actually do this if we cut off all bombs, but they certainly can if you just cut off 1% of their supply or whatever this is.
That said, there good news here. It’s progress. After 7 months, I was of the belief that Biden was totally immune to pressure. He’s pretty resilient to it, but clearly the combined effects – both the campus protests, the civil disobedience, the constant bird dogging at every campaign event – are moving him, and the general mainstream consensus. Let’s keep that up.