I mean, that was certainly true a week ago, but they’ve definitely started doing something now. They’re dropping aid on Gaza, Harris is calling for a ceasefire, and they invited Benny Gantz, who will probably be Netanyahu’s next opponent for Prime Minister, to the White House. The aid drops are not sufficient, and the calls for a ceasefire have come far too late, but the Gantz thing is actually pretty great. Polls show Gantz would beat Netanyahu if there were an election today, and apparently this has seriously undermined him politically.
I’m very critical of Israel and the Democrats’ enablement of it’s genocide, and I have no illusions about the White House’s motives here; the only reason Biden’s doing anything is because he’s scared shitless by the 100K uncommitted voters in Michigan. But Biden isn’t just letting staffers leak that he called Netanyahu a, “bad fucking guy,” anymore, he’s taking actual action. You can argue that what he’s doing isn’t enough (God knows I think it’s not enough), but we should acknowledge and encourage positive changes, even if they’re small and insufficient.
I mean, that was certainly true a week ago, but they’ve definitely started doing something now. They’re dropping aid on Gaza, Harris is calling for a ceasefire, and they invited Benny Gantz, who will probably be Netanyahu’s next opponent for Prime Minister, to the White House. The aid drops are not sufficient, and the calls for a ceasefire have come far too late, but the Gantz thing is actually pretty great. Polls show Gantz would beat Netanyahu if there were an election today, and apparently this has seriously undermined him politically.
I’m very critical of Israel and the Democrats’ enablement of it’s genocide, and I have no illusions about the White House’s motives here; the only reason Biden’s doing anything is because he’s scared shitless by the 100K uncommitted voters in Michigan. But Biden isn’t just letting staffers leak that he called Netanyahu a, “bad fucking guy,” anymore, he’s taking actual action. You can argue that what he’s doing isn’t enough (God knows I think it’s not enough), but we should acknowledge and encourage positive changes, even if they’re small and insufficient.
Promoting a political rival would be more substantial if that political rival actually differed in policy.
He’s not just a political rival, he’s a war cabinet member who was brought to the White House and given a lecture on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. And again, if you don’t think these steps are good enough, fine, fair enough, I mostly agree with you. But he’s definitely, “doing something,” now and not just, “looking frustrated.”