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Don’t really matter until he stops sending them bombs and billions tho innit

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He already restricted visas for extremist settlers in the west bank. Making all further aid dependent on curbing the fuckery in this area is probably the way to go. It’s pretty unlikely that the US can do more than delay strikes by Israel when it comes to further actions in Gaza, they don’t have nearly as much control over them as everyone makes it seem.

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He already restricted visas for extremist settlers in the west bank

I’ll tell that to that mother in Rafah who’s trying to scrape what’s left of her kid into a bucket, having gone there because Israel told her it was the safe place to evacuate to after she followed Israeli orders to evacuate to Khan Younis and was bombed there as well…

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No, but the US can sure as hell stop contributing to it. Then, they can go further and stop protecting them at the UN.

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Why would they do that? The UN is like 50 Muslim countries, pretty much all of them theocracratic dictatorships. They usually vote as a block against Israel which is pretty bs considering there is one jewish state with one voice.

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Israel exists by the grace of the US. Cut off aid and it ceases to be.

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Yeah… No

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He did it for 4 people.

The order initially imposes financial sanctions and visa bans against four individuals, and US officials said they were evaluating whether to punish others involved in attacks that have intensified during the Israel-Hamas war.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/01/joe-biden-expected-issue-order-israeli-settlers-west-bank-palestinians

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They do though. As well as essentially paying them to do it, they sit on the UN Security Council and veto everything raised against this genocide.

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There seems to be this thing where the mainstream media tries to appease anti-murder voters by insisting that Joe “I Am A Zionist” Biden is really trying hard to find a solution to this and he’ll get there eventually, but in the mean time his hands are tied and he has to keep picking up the tab for Israel. But like, really guys, any minute now he’s gonna stop because secretly he agrees with you that this is wrong. He just can’t stop now. Like, he could. He could just stop sending them money. But he can’t. But he will soon. But not now. Because he can’t.

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Doesn’t congress send the money? Also although I think Zionism is inherently flawed thinking, but you can be a zionist and not support genocide. Nothing about being a Zionist implies the state must grow or do anything in particular other than being a Jewish ethnostate.

A two state solution was and is the only way there will be a modicum of peace, and no, it will not be fair.

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He bypasses congress to send military aid.

Also how do you get an ethnostate on other peoples land without genocide?

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Don’t alter the headline. He bypasses Congress by not sending aid but rather by selling the weapons. Israel is paying for it, even if it’s wholesale prices on ammunition components.

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The existence of that ethnostate was built on the nakba and the continued subjugation of Palestinians and their Jewish allies.

Want an ethnostate? Go take it from Germany. God knows they deserve it at least.

Zionism requires the wiping of a culture and people to replace it with another. There is no form of Zionism which is not genocidal.

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Zionism needs a Nakba and an Apartheid state, otherwise it wouldn’t be Zionism. So no, being Zionist means in one way or another supporting genocide.

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Zionism in 2024 is the belief that nobody other than Ashkenazi Jews are allowed to live in Palestine. However you get to that point, well that’s just secularism! /s

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Oooooooh I tell you if you keep committing genocide I’m gonna get frustrated! Reeaaal frustrated!

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Is he frustrated with Israel or with the political capital this is costing him?

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The US foreign policy for Israel in a nutshell:

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