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"As the president of the United States, you have power to change the course of history, and the responsibility to save lives right now," the staffers wrote.

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[–] [email protected] 175 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (18 children)

Taking from my comment on the other community where you posted this:

Biden asked for one and reported Netanyahu said no.

The headline sounds like he’s just dismissing his staffers

[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (18 children)

You mean the headline is intentionally misleading to the point of misinforming people?

It's straight up journalistic malpractice the way they phrased it

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

"Ok then stop sending bombs and using reaper drones to help them perform mass killings"

"No can do chief, Bibi told me I need to keep doing all that."

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Considering the power that the US has over Israel, he pretty much is just dismissing his staffers.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It's almost like the US isn't technically a combatant here.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (6 children)

To be fair, i don't think Israel is going to do a cease fire even if we yeet all the aid and support we promised them. Netty has been wanting this fight for... ages.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not too sure on that, US has many ways to force cease fires as good as starting coups.

I think if we had a president and congress that wanted it done, it would be done.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if we had a president and congress that wanted it done, Israel wouldn't have felt comfortable doing it in the first place, really. I'm just saying at this point, I don't think there's a lot we can do. and as for starting a coup... that has never worked out well for the US.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Au contraire, I saw bananas on sale the other day for just 59 cents.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Considering how well those coups worked out, I’d really like for that sad chapter of US history to stay history, as much as I despise Bibi’s reactionary government.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, if we yeet all the aid we send them, at least we won't be facilitating a genocide in as many ways.

That's a start and a step worth taking.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Keep in mind, part of the reason we’ve given all this aid to Israel, historically, is precisely for that leverage it gives us.

People are rolling in their graves that we’re not using it.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's stop all aid to Israel and go from there.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ok but I'd really like to see our government try to make demands or ultimatums

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Agreed.

Just because a thing is hard doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be done. I’m just a realist. They won’t stop until the hardliners on both sides are gone.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Stopping the aid might not stop him but heavy sanctions definitely would.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

This was reported for having a misleading headline, however the headline on the post is the exact same as the headline on the article.

I agree, the headline makes it sound like Biden was addressing the "500+ former staffers" when he was not, that's an issue to take up with commondreams.org.

If OP had editorialized the headline in a misleading fashion, I'd remove it. In this case they are accurately passing along the headline from the article.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (6 children)

In just over a month, Israeli bombing has killed nearly 11,000 people in Gaza and displaced more than 70% of the territory's population.

Jesus wept.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (10 children)

CommonDreams is a garbage site.

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