Rapidcreek@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 6 months agoBiden says US won't supply weapons for Israel to attack Rafah, in warning to allyapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square135fedilinkarrow-up1397arrow-down17
arrow-up1390arrow-down1external-linkBiden says US won't supply weapons for Israel to attack Rafah, in warning to allyapnews.comRapidcreek@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 6 months agomessage-square135fedilink
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·6 months agoBiden’s actions are pretty clearly NOT a reaction to the protests. We know this because the protests have been going on for a while now and Biden took no action whatsoever. It DOES immediately follow THIS news, and my suspicion is this is what caused the change in policy. March 27th - Israel uses US supplied bombs to illegally attack Southern Lebanon, killing seven aid workers: https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/05/07/israel-us-arms-used-strike-killed-lebanon-aid-workers April 2nd, Biden reportedly “outraged” over the attack that killed seven members of World Central Kitchen. https://www.reuters.com/world/white-house-outraged-by-israeli-airstrike-that-killed-aid-workers-gaza-2024-04-02/ Now he’s saying no, we aren’t giving you weapons for Rafa. The last thing he wants is more dead civilians with US supplied bombs.
Biden’s actions are pretty clearly NOT a reaction to the protests.
We know this because the protests have been going on for a while now and Biden took no action whatsoever.
It DOES immediately follow THIS news, and my suspicion is this is what caused the change in policy.
March 27th - Israel uses US supplied bombs to illegally attack Southern Lebanon, killing seven aid workers:
https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/05/07/israel-us-arms-used-strike-killed-lebanon-aid-workers
April 2nd, Biden reportedly “outraged” over the attack that killed seven members of World Central Kitchen.
https://www.reuters.com/world/white-house-outraged-by-israeli-airstrike-that-killed-aid-workers-gaza-2024-04-02/
Now he’s saying no, we aren’t giving you weapons for Rafa. The last thing he wants is more dead civilians with US supplied bombs.
Yeah. They won’t listen.