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Biden on hot mic: ‘Come-to-Jesus meeting’ with Netanyahu on the way (thehill.com)

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President Biden told a Democratic lawmaker and members of his Cabinet after the State of the Union address that he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that they will need to have a “come-to-Jesus meeting.”

Biden’s comments, captured on a hot mic as he spoke with Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) on the floor of the House chamber, came after Bennet congratulated the commander in chief on his speech and pressed him to keep pressure on Netanyahu over increasing humanitarian issues in Gaza.

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[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago

It really looks like he's about to start taking concrete actions, you're perfectly correct in criticizing how long this took but in the past few days he's started the floating harbor plan and is probably going to come down hard on Netanyahu. Skepticism is fair, but everything is currently moving in the right direction.

[-] Klause@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 8 months ago

Any day now he might actually do something to stop doing what he's doing.

[-] Nudding@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Maybe if there wasn't an 80 year old Zionist in the Whitehouse things wouldnt take a fortnight to ponder.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 14 points 8 months ago

Yup, we'd sure as hell have boots on the ground delivering aide if it was Bernie in office, but it seems like Biden is reading the writing on the wall.

[-] Nudding@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah it's too bad it took him 30000 dead brown people to start to maybe consider maybe asking Netanyahu to tone it down a little. So progressive

Edit: You know what, for the sake of clarity, it wasn't the dead brown people that made him reconsider, it was the fact that it might cost him some votes in Michigan.

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 months ago

Well let's be fair - he doesn't give a shit about Michigan - he doesn't want to be remembered as a one term president.

[-] Nudding@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

I think the Genocide Joe nickname is gonna stick around.

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Biden will come down on Netanyahu when Ukraine gets its F-16s

[-] NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social 0 points 8 months ago

He's not doing anything though. The air drops are literally useless (some of the meals were even expired), and the port is gonna take two months, which is too late to save anyone unless aid arrives by truck. If he really wants to do anything he could just force Netanyahu to allow in aid.

[-] juicy@lemmy.today 0 points 8 months ago

I'm seeing 10-year-old walking skeletons on Instagram, but in two months Butcher Biden will finish building his floating harbor.

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