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Biden didn't make Israeli-Palestinian talks a priority. Arab leaders say region now paying the price

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2y ago

Biden didn't make Israeli-Palestinian talks a priority. Arab leaders say region now paying the price

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In times like this it's comforting to know that Arab leaders will always demonstrate the leadership required to blame the US no matter happens. If the US was actively involved it's because of what the US did; if the US was hands-off it's because of what the US didn't do. The important thing to always remember is that Arab leaders have no responsibility for what happens in their own backyards.
- Let's just end fossil fuels and then they can go back to fucking about in the desert
What could Biden, specifically, have engaged in regarding talks to avoid this?
Even if we assumed that Israel was a good, cooperative, amicable ally instead of a country that both steals and sells US secrets to US enemies, what exactly could Biden have said to avoid this? Biden doesn't have the power to revoke military aid, and even within his own party revoking military aid is a non-starter. What leverage did Biden have to get Israel, especially Israel under Bibi, to agree to terms that Hamas would find acceptable enough to no longer engage in terrorism over? And what fucking terms would those have been?
- What could Biden, specifically, have engaged in regarding talks to avoid this?
  Exactly.
  This conflict between these 2 sides has been ongoing with varying levels of animosity for almost a hundred years, and pretty much every country in the world (and every American president in that time period) had taken a crack at trying to calm things down.
  Yet here we are again in yet another shooting war.
  What could Biden (or anyone outside of the 2 groups) have done to prevent this iteration of bloodshed?
- He could have publicly disavowed his state department when they sent this memo out
  In messages circulated on Friday, State Department staff wrote that high-level officials do not want press materials to include three specific phrases: “de-escalation/ceasefire,” “end to violence/bloodshed” and “restoring calm.”
  The revelation provides a stunning signal about the Biden administration’s reluctance to push for Israeli restraint as the close U.S. partner expands the offensive it launched after Hamas ― which rules Gaza ― attacked Israeli communities on Oct. 7.
Every US president in the last 50 years has made talks between the two a high priority, except for Biden and Trump. What has that gotten the region?
- Almost 3000 years of peace and then this comes out of nowhere!
That's like suggesting Biden is the dad and Israel and Palestine are misbehaving children. Maybe they would be a little better with the US watching, but not much as history has repeatedly shown.
He had a few other things on his plate, like a pandemic and inflation.
He probably didn't expect Hamas to take a giant shit on Israel

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