I oppose our sending any arms to Israel, especially with the murder they’re no committing. Having said that, in this country, it is extremely difficult to extricate the country from its long-standing (albeit wrong) arms relationship with Israel. Many have said that Biden can do it with a pen stroke. But in this political environment, that’s not possible — it could easily, and probably would lead to Biden’s defeat in November. And no matter how bad things are now, they would get much much worse under Trump 2.0, especially in the Middle East. At least now Biden is trying to get Israel to moderate its atrocities a little while still getting aid to Gaza. If Trump were in office right now, there would be no aid to Gaza at all, and Trump would be encouraging Bibi to raze Gaza to the ground.
This is a position that has taken us decades to get into, and until there is broad support across the country, Biden has to tread carefully. I don’t like it, but political reality is not the same as normal reality.
I oppose our sending any arms to Israel, especially with the murder they’re no committing. Having said that, in this country, it is extremely difficult to extricate the country from its long-standing (albeit wrong) arms relationship with Israel. Many have said that Biden can do it with a pen stroke. But in this political environment, that’s not possible — it could easily, and probably would lead to Biden’s defeat in November. And no matter how bad things are now, they would get much much worse under Trump 2.0, especially in the Middle East. At least now Biden is trying to get Israel to moderate its atrocities a little while still getting aid to Gaza. If Trump were in office right now, there would be no aid to Gaza at all, and Trump would be encouraging Bibi to raze Gaza to the ground.
This is a position that has taken us decades to get into, and until there is broad support across the country, Biden has to tread carefully. I don’t like it, but political reality is not the same as normal reality.