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Is Joe Biden Actually Going to Do Anything About Netanyahu and the Israel, Palestine Conflict?
It doesn’t appear so. It’s all just talk.
I’ve certainly been clear about my gripes with Joe Biden over the years that I’ve been sharing my thoughts publicly in this space, but if I’m being honest there are few things that bother me more than how he has handled everything going on with Israel and the people of Palestine. When you sit back and examine it all as the crisis and genocide have unfolded over the past few months, it’s hard not to view it as the ultimate indictment and embodiment of weakness.
And it just continues to get worse.
“US president Joe Biden has said prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s approach on Gaza was a “mistake” and urged Israel to call for a ceasefire, in an interview that aired on Tuesday.
Biden’s comments were some of his strongest criticism yet of Netanyahu amid growing tensions over the civilian death toll from Israel’s war on Hamas and dire conditions inside Gaza.
“I think what he’s doing is a mistake. I don’t agree with his approach,” Biden told Univision, a US Spanish-language TV network, when asked about Netanyahu’s handling of the war.
Biden reiterated that an Israeli drone attack last week that…