In Reply to: I do understand the criticism that Trump is worse than Biden posted by blindness on September 28, 2025 at 15:48:06
I'm not saying that the Biden admin was above reproach WRT Israel and Gaza. Certainly it was a flawed approach but that doesn't mean that there was a better answer. Biden absolutely could not cut off Israel and hope to win the election. That wasn't going to happen. The most he could do would be to put conditions on aid (military and otherwise) but THAT may have been the third rail by itself. So he was left with trying to influence Netanyahoo who was not able to be influenced, as he was trying to stay at war and kill Palestinians only to stay in power and out of prison.
If there was a realistic approach Biden could have taken that would have saved lives and still given him (or KH) a chance to win I'd like to hear it.
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"Biden was completely complicit in the genocide that's been going on in Gaza and he was explicitly supported and enabled the genocide. There is no question about that. That's etched in stone."
IMO that's a big overstatement. You can argue that his continuing the decades long policy of supplying arms to Israel, even after October 7, "explicitly enabled" the genocide, but to say he "supported" it is wrong. You can't really believe Biden was in favor of all those civilians being killed. That's just as obvious as the fact that tRump is ABSOLUTELY in favor of all of those Palestinians being killed. Biden had no good options but tRump is a psychopath.