Report: Biden Admin “Aggressively” Lobbying Senate Against Blocking Arms Sales to Israel
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The administration claimed that blocking arms transfers would embolden Hamas — ignoring Israel’s genocidal slaughter.

The administration claimed that blocking arms transfers would embolden Hamas — ignoring Israel’s genocidal slaughter.

  • dvoraqs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Where did you hear this story about Biden making a promise to protect Israel?

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      83·
      3 days ago

      Biden has partly credited his pro-Israel world view to his father, who insisted following World War Two and the Nazi Holocaust there was no doubt of the justness of establishing Israel as a Jewish homeland in 1948.

      https://www.reuters.com/world/us/i-am-zionist-how-joe-bidens-lifelong-bond-with-israel-shapes-war-policy-2023-10-21/

      Sorry it took so long.

      To find that I had to go thru all the trouble of searching “Biden dad Israel” on Duck Duck go. And then had to even click on the top result.

      I can understand why that answer would have evaded someone.

      But that’s not exactly what I said is it, and it’s not his own words…

      So I went the extra mile for you man, I clicked the second link too

      Except the problem with Bidens own words, these days they trail off.

      PRESIDENT BIDEN: Well, I hope my father heard that. He’d be — my father was what we call a righteous Christian. He couldn’t understand why we didn’t move more rapidly back in World War II (inaudible). Any rate. I —

      PRESIDENT HERZOG: I think that was a great legacy with — of your father.

      PRESIDENT BIDEN: Well, it was. And I remember how I got in trouble — we were friends even back then — when I said — years ago, as a senator, I said, “You don’t have to be a Jew to be a Zionist.” I’m a Zionist.

      https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/11/12/remarks-by-president-biden-and-president-isaac-herzog-of-the-state-of-israel-before-a-meeting/

      He starts the story there, but literally just trails off

      That was only 9 days ago tho…

      Is that recent enough?

      Do you want more?