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Thread #172755   Message #4192103
Posted By: Steve Shaw
24-Oct-23 - 02:04 PM
Thread Name: BS: Hamas attacks Israel
Subject: RE: BS: Hamas attacks Israel
"...but you need to stop calling the kettle black and set aside your very dark blinders."

Well perhaps, after all I've said about, them, you think I have a smidgeon of empathy for Hamas. Well I haven't, and I certainly don't need you to tell me how bad they are, thanks. But Biden refuses to criticise the utterly disproportionate response of Netanyahu. There are several pots and kettles here. Netanyahu is seriously in trouble at home and he sees the only way out is by carrying out vicious and utterly disproportionate attacks on civilians. He can't destroy Hamas and he knows it. It's just cutting off the head of the Hydra. You know that, I know that, we all know that. Biden, and he's not alone by any means, utters soft words of "advice" about how Bibi should be careful about hurting civilians. But no criticism and no call for a ceasefire. The reason for this is that Biden is not his own man. One word of direct criticism means that he will lose the next election, thanks to your all powerful pro-Israel lobby. Sunak is on the far right, is doomed anyway but is grasping at fake hubris as a last resort, so he will also say nothing. The bald fact here is that the Israeli regime requires more than criticism. It needs to be threatened with withdrawal of military aid unless it stops attacking civilians, and almost all of that military aid is sanctioned by Biden's administration. Decent people who know that Israeli shells have killed thousands of children are not going to continue to watch this horror show for evermore just because Bibi brutally and pointlessly keeps it going. We don't want to hear any more about tactics. We want to hear thst the killing has stopped. The man in the middle who can have the biggest influence I Joe Biden, and he's failing. We need a ceasefire. No more killing. Let's decide that political skins are less valuable than the lives of chidren.