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President Joe Biden said Tuesday Israel’s prime minister needs to change his hardline government and support for the country’s military campaign is waning amid heavy bombardment of Gaza. ... “This is the most conservative government in Israel’s history,” Biden said, adding that the Israeli government “doesn’t want a two-state solution.”

It's mind-blowing how thoroughly Netanyahu has bungled this. They had damn near the entire world in full support after Hamas' horrific attack on Israeli civilians, and they've managed to lose it.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Like every other time a headline makes it sound like Biden is criticizing Israel's government, that's not what this is.

“We’ll continue to provide military assistance to Israel until they get rid of Hamas, but we have to be careful – they have to be careful,” Biden said. “The whole world’s public opinion can shift overnight, we can’t let that happen.”

For literal decades now Biden has been telling Israel that they need to pay attention to optics if they want support to continue.

It's never a threat, because Biden always pledges support no matter what.

He doesn't have any issues with Israels actions over there. He's just worried the governments of other countries may face pressure from their citizens to stop funding genocides.

He doesn't want the genocide to stop, he wants Israel to be discrete and maintain plausible deniability