President Biden on Wednesday walked back a call for Israel to declare a six-to-eight-week ceasefire in Gaza, saying the truce must be tied to a hostage deal and that it was “up to Hamas.”
The comments came a day after an interview aired in which Biden appeared to say Israel should unilaterally declare a temporary ceasefire, which would have marked a major shift in policy. According to The Times of Israel, the White House already walked back his call, saying he was referring to a hostage deal that’s being negotiated.
“It’s now up to Hamas. They need to move on the proposal that has been made [so we can] get these hostages home where they belong,” Biden said during a press conference on Wednesday. “It also brings back a six-week ceasefire that we need now.”
There’s no indication a hostage deal is close as Hamas is sticking to its demand for a permanent ceasefire and the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Gaza. Israel has rejected the demands as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed any truce will be temporary.
Biden refuses to pressure Israel to end its onslaught in Gaza despite the massive civilian casualties and starvation blockade Israel is imposing, which has put the entire population of the Strip on the brink of famine. The State Department has even acknowledged that famine could already be taking place in some areas of Gaza.
Biden is also not budging in the face of significant opposition to his support for Israel from within the Democratic Party. Over 500,000 people cast ballots for “uncommitted” or “uninstructed” in Democratic primaries across the country to protest the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza.
So, Biden is repeating what Blinky said. The bad guys will have to accept the good guy’s proposal or he’ll have no choice but let the good guys continue on with their genocide.
Poor fool occasionally says the right thing … and he’s brutally brought back to the talking points immediately.
Trump is trying his best to get me to vote Biden. I do not want a nationalist like Trump supporting whatever we want to label this.
“I do not want a nationalist like Trump supporting whatever we want to label this.”
The alternative is a Democratic Party that takes this lesson:
Despite the overwhelming opposition of our constituents, we can singlehandedly enable and support “whatever we want to label” Israel’s atrocities, and be re-elected…
…meaning the continuation of unconditional military, political and diplomatic support for Israel within the Democratic Party vs. – in the future – its having to break with the longstanding ‘bipartisan consensus’ and submission to AIPAC in order not to lose.
It’s a competition of who can be more genocidal. No to either.
I want the left blamed. Neocons temporarily took over the Dems, and I’m glad for it. Israel requires the empire to thrive. It should be the Dems who defend it.
America First means a $50b annual defence budget.
There is no real “left” left.
Well, there’s no right either.
Speaking of insane asylums, where is Mod Knapp?
No idea what yr saying…what yr point is, or points are…how yr ‘reply’ has anything to do with my reply to yr post.
Do you care whether yr understood? is that even a value, or a consideration in yr head when you post on a public forum?
I’ll clarify shortly. I seem to have angered several here recently.
It just happened faster than usual, the election is closer.
Biden is losing it. Nice choice we have in November. Senile President or a criminal President. Great.
Trump isn’t a criminal. But I don’t want him if this conflict continues. Israel needs to be defunded so it stops acting. It should be a patient anvil and accept stability so other matters can be focused upon.
If it wants rid of Palestinians, it but needs to pay them to move. Give them money, and others will accept them.
No more bombing and starving children.
There is a concept of accepting a deal not under duress; this is clearly not happening here. You cannot bomb the S&&T of them and then offer them monies to move.
Oh, they’re under duress, and it is unfair. But they should be paid regardless. Carrot & stick > stick alone.
No one will even take them in if they choose to leave. But if they had money, things would be different.
Trump is a criminal. Biden is a criminal. Obama is a criminal. Bush 2 is a criminal. Clinton is a criminal. Bush 1 is a dead criminal…..
OK, in that regard, yes. But not as he meant it.
I wasn’t limiting their criminality to just their presidencies.
I doubt Trump is otherwise a criminal in any significant sense. He’s wishing he could sell that stock.
Or maybe no amount of money will get the Palestinians to move. Zionists tried this in late 1800s and early 1900s. It didn’t work.
It’s not really the Palestinians who need to agreed. They can be bound and gagged. Someone must take them. If they come with bank accounts rather than as beggars, someone will take them.
Currently they’re feared to be terrorists, idle and unwilling to work, and radical in their views. But with enough money…
To clarify: Israel wants Gaza. Some Gazans want to stay, some leave. Others want the Gazans to stay, to retain their claims.
And I just want the US out. But if we’re in, I don’t want Palestinians harmed.
“Trump isn’t a criminal”. Tell that to the City and State of New York. He defrauded both. That is a criminal act. Convicted of rape in the E. Jean Carroll case.
He didn’t really defraud them. They just declared him guilty.
If you’re against torturing children in Gaza, you might also be found guilty.
He wasn’t found guilty of rape, just sexual abuse; and it’ll likely be appealed.
Trump is just an example of how those who resist the elite in some manner, such as opposition to a war, are crushed, like Assange who but revealed crimes.
Now, whether Trump actually accomplishes something positive with his rebellion remains to be seen.
Israel, intel, Pelosi and the Pentagon are all fighting over the Biden puppet. Please don’t pull on the strings too hard!
Filled with intravenous hatred, daily. The coming election: A bag of excrement vs a bag of bones.
Hate only works, if he has cognitive capability. Otherwise it’s just jello.
worse – this jello is a toxin – as unavoidable and human as great anger and grief are, people have to find ways of living – communities of activism, even with little power – not only for political, but for personal and mental health reasons…
Platter of sh*t. Which half would eat at the polls?
What a complete piece of shite this individual is.
Truly, words fail at this point. What a monstrosity the US political hierarchy has become. The Hague is too good for the likes of him. A yardarm would suffice.
From Caitlin Johnstone today:
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/idiot-republicans-are-saying-genocide
In reality, the only reason Republicans have begun trying to frame Biden as anti-Israel is because only through fiction and fantasy can America’s two mainstream parties pretend there are any significant differences between them. They’re both insanely supportive of Israel and its crimes. They both support war, militarism, imperialism, capitalism and oligarchy. The only areas in which there’s any meaningful disagreement between them are the issues that don’t inconvenience the powerful in any way like whether or not you’re allowed to have an abortion or whether it’s good or bad to be mean to trans people —and even those issues are only used to keep everyone’s interest and attention locked into mainstream politics and diverted from revolutionary sentiment.
Some updates on the Nicaragua case at the Hague against Germany for genocide:
Op-ed
German imperialism must answer for complicity in Gaza genocide
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2024/04/11/npao-a11.html
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/04/08/723297/Palestine-Israel-Nicaragua-Germany-International-Court-of-Justice-war-Gaza-UNRWA
https://www.icj-cij.org/case/193
I know there was a case in the US against Biden/Blinken. Tossed. Why has no country taken it to the Hague? Like Iran, maybe?
https://truthout.org/articles/us-judge-admits-horror-of-gaza-genocide-but-will-he-dismiss-case-against-biden/
https://theintercept.com/2024/02/01/gaza-biden-genocide-lawsuit-ruling/
The Peace Party is carefully setting up the War Party – it’s a step by step approach. Just be assured – the war crimes trials will be epic
I wish I was so sure.
I have my doubts too.
Israel should have been taken to task long ago. Israel has assassinated Iranian scientists. It bombed Iraqi power plants. The 17 year blockade in Gaza should have been enough. Nothing substantial was done after the attempted sinking of the U.S.S. Liberty, an act of war against us. Johnson should have been impeached for ordering American fighter jets to abort their flight to attack the Israelis, protect Americans on that ship from further deaths, injuries. Israel has been like a mad dog running around in a neighborhood for far too long.
This is why Israel get’s to continue it’s Genocide, because America is backing the ongoing slaughtering of defenseless people. Biden LIES, Trump LIES, Congress has gone ROGUE, abandoning Constitutional Values, abandoning Americans, marking us all as War Criminals. Look for Third Party Candidates to vote for, we have to rid D.C. of the Republicans and Democrats, send them all to Israel where their Loyalty is.
Israel is developing “battle tested” weapons that the world will gobble up. We are first in line. The latest developed by the Zionists: “automatic killing” via AI.
Musk visited Netanyahu in November, do you think it was about providing AI for Israelis Genocide of Palestinians? If the weapons manufacturers could possibly be charged with War Crimes for supplying lethal weapons to Israel, could Musk and others supplying AI for slaughtering Palestinians, be charged with War Crimes?
I wouldn’t go so far as to call them “battle tested;” for that you need to test them on people who actually shoot back. Sadly a lot of folks will be wanting to use them on their own unarmed people, and Israeli tech fits that bill nicely.
Biden and his underlings seem to always shoot their mouth off without any thinking.
They do think. Politics is strategy sessions. What to do, what to say, how to say it, how to wave arms, raise eyebrows, all manufactured for the right effect for the United States of Amnesia. And beyond. Until the next day. Off it goes again.
Correction: Biden doesn’t walk-back. Biden bends over.
Blinken, Sullivan yell at the decrepit president. Victoria sends a voicemail in same tone. AIPAC dangles money in his face, points toward the calendar. MIC grows impatient with the idea that continued profits could stop. Jared chimes in that it would ruin his waterfront development idea. Adelson’s wife goes nuts on him. Then, he thinks (sort of), seeks council from someone, anyone, as to what words he should read off the teleprompter, to tell all that he may have been rash. (at least Reagan used cue cards)……….
Of course he did. All it took was for AIPAC to dangle money in his face.
where is the proof?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/c73c30e45a46b6b30225bd491081aac8a692be24256c219e5773642434139dd0.jpg
Please everybody. Stop Pretending that Biden is making decisions and actually running the Chit Show in Washington.
Biden is a viscous, murdering inhumane animal just like all Zionists.
IDIOTS are in charge in DC and Tel Aviv and IDIOTS will reelect them again. We are in trouble the bad people are in charge and bad people will replace the bad people if there is a replacement.
“The comments came a day after an interview…which would have marked a major shift in policy.”
Jesus Baron von Christ, people! When has Biden EVER NOT walked back a policy one day after he blurted it out in a mental fart?
China has been saying this since Biden first started talking to them: “The US says one thing and then does the exact opposite.”
Yet every journalist – including the alt-media – expect us to take seriously something Biden mumbles offhand as he’s wandering aimlessly around the White House.
Like the Assange “we’re considering it” bullshit.
Read MY lips: NOTHING that comes out of Biden’s mouth can be considered anything but a lie or a mind fart. Period. End of story.
Really, that’s been the case for pretty much everyone since Reagan, the US is now known internationally as “agreement incapable” since, like Israel, they rarely if ever comply with any treaty or agreement once the immediate political benefit of signing it has passed. This has been particularly evident with any treaty that has to do with limiting offensive weapons, even the bioweapon and chemweapon treaties are treated like toilet paper when convenient (although that doesn’t stop them from accusing every unfriendly country of violations).
“Give us all the hostages and we’ll pretend that we won’t kill any more kids for six weeks, maybe, if we feel like it.”
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1be1e5504a9837801fe7136f9f757f8eea92497f3cd87bcc65c9afb5c0f91779.jpg
Or Christians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHayOkXe5ig