-
29 votes
-
UN-backed experts declare famine in and around Gaza City
14 votes -
In Norway we see ourselves as ethically virtuous – so why is our oil wealth enabling genocide?
9 votes -
According to online poll, calls for genocide have migrated from the margins to the mainstream in Israel
31 votes -
US President Joe Biden never pressured Israel for ceasefire, according to Israeli investigation
23 votes -
What is the motivation to keep sending Benajmin Netanyahu military aide while the Gaza crisis continues?
I hope it is kosher to post this under ~talk. I know people are sick of this topic, so I put plenty of tags in to help those not interested avoid seeing this thread. FWIW, you can go into your...
I hope it is kosher to post this under ~talk. I know people are sick of this topic, so I put plenty of tags in to help those not interested avoid seeing this thread. FWIW, you can go into your Settings and enter keywords to filter threads on ( via tags ).
To my question.
Netanyahu has been killing people with no means of defense.
What is President Biden's motivation to keep sending military aide to Israel while Netanyahu continues to do this?
I have a few guesses, but none of them on their own or together seems to justify the political or humanitarian costs:
- Somehow it is in the geopolitical interest of the U.S. to do so
- Israel would be destroyed without military aide ( but defensive weapons can still be sent )
- The U.S. benefits from Israeli intelligence
- Congressional republicans aligned with Christian Nationlists want to see Israel live out a Biblical prophesy and it would cost President Biden politically if he were to push a decrease in military aide - assuming he could.
- President Biden might have lost Jewish American votes, BUT Jews are a minority in America and many American Jews are against what Netanyahu is doing.
Those are the possibilities I could come up with. Am I missing anything? All of these possibilities together do not seem to be worth the political cost President Biden incurred. Is there something I missed?
23 votes -
Illinois now home to federally recognized tribal nation after landmark decision from Department of Interior
17 votes -
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva accuses Jair Bolsonaro of genocide against Yanomami in Brazilian Amazon
6 votes -
Candadian House of Commons gives unanimous consent to recognize residential schools as genocide
11 votes -
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declares China's treatment of Uighurs 'genocide'
15 votes -
Fear and oppression in Xinjiang: China’s war on Uighur culture
10 votes