I am strongly supportive of Biden and doubt we could find anyone else currently available who would be as experienced, moral and effective as he is to serve as President, although I have had some points of disagreement with his actions (or more often inaction) at times.
I understood Israel's initial response following October 7 as regrett…
I am strongly supportive of Biden and doubt we could find anyone else currently available who would be as experienced, moral and effective as he is to serve as President, although I have had some points of disagreement with his actions (or more often inaction) at times.
I understood Israel's initial response following October 7 as regrettably necessary and even understood the need for the response to be proportionately stronger than the October 7 losses given the horror and the size of the task, understood the reluctance to risk IDF lives with more risky tunnel clearing precision searches for Hamas, and the repulsion against the Palestinians they saw on public media celebrating the atrocities of October 7.
I understood Biden stating and providing support for Israel at the time but always regretted Biden referring to Netanyahu as "Bibi", as "my friend" and making such an effort to ensure our identification with what anyone with a healthy sense of dread must have suspected was about to happen in Gaza - which, in fact, Hamas intended would happen in Gaza.
I repeatedly hear that Israel is an ally because it's a "rare democracy", especially in that part of the world, but Netanyahu's attempts to eliminate the judiciary as an effective separate power surely brought (at least the future of) their democratic status into question. Netanyahu clearly feels much less identification with Biden than with Trump. I feel frustration and bafflement with Biden's forcing us into the visuals of teaming with an Israel that too frequently mirrors tactics used by Putin, under a leader who embodies many of the same qualities we deplore in our own would be despot, Trump.
We do suffer significant consequences in the world when we lose our moral authority. We fail to support the people of Israel who better deserve our support when we fail to call out Netanyahu and provide the bombs his far right government is using to ensure Israel's neighbors will view them with hatred.
I will vote for Biden, I support Biden, but I do wish Biden had taken a different tack on this one.
I am strongly supportive of Biden and doubt we could find anyone else currently available who would be as experienced, moral and effective as he is to serve as President, although I have had some points of disagreement with his actions (or more often inaction) at times.
I understood Israel's initial response following October 7 as regrettably necessary and even understood the need for the response to be proportionately stronger than the October 7 losses given the horror and the size of the task, understood the reluctance to risk IDF lives with more risky tunnel clearing precision searches for Hamas, and the repulsion against the Palestinians they saw on public media celebrating the atrocities of October 7.
I understood Biden stating and providing support for Israel at the time but always regretted Biden referring to Netanyahu as "Bibi", as "my friend" and making such an effort to ensure our identification with what anyone with a healthy sense of dread must have suspected was about to happen in Gaza - which, in fact, Hamas intended would happen in Gaza.
I repeatedly hear that Israel is an ally because it's a "rare democracy", especially in that part of the world, but Netanyahu's attempts to eliminate the judiciary as an effective separate power surely brought (at least the future of) their democratic status into question. Netanyahu clearly feels much less identification with Biden than with Trump. I feel frustration and bafflement with Biden's forcing us into the visuals of teaming with an Israel that too frequently mirrors tactics used by Putin, under a leader who embodies many of the same qualities we deplore in our own would be despot, Trump.
We do suffer significant consequences in the world when we lose our moral authority. We fail to support the people of Israel who better deserve our support when we fail to call out Netanyahu and provide the bombs his far right government is using to ensure Israel's neighbors will view them with hatred.
I will vote for Biden, I support Biden, but I do wish Biden had taken a different tack on this one.
You and I are in vehement agreement on this!
YES