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Bibi Is Choosing Stefanik and Trump. President Biden, Don’t Be Fooled. (www.nytimes.com)

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If you are keeping score at home, you have surely noticed that the two most important defense officials in Benjamin Netanyahu’s war cabinet — Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and the former military chief of staff Benny Gantz — warned last week that Netanyahu is leading Israel into a disastrous abyss by refusing to present any plan for non-Hamas Palestinians to govern Gaza and appears to be contemplating a long-term Israeli military occupation of Gaza instead. Gantz said he would leave the government if there was no plan by June 8.

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“Netanyahu’s acquiescence to the extreme right, Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, has generally been seen as motivated out of his need to keep his coalition together and himself out of jail,” Friedman told me. “Now it seems that he has willingly sold his soul to the extreme right. One explanation is that the extreme religious right projects a Messianic image onto him that corresponds with his own sense of having been called to save Israel and the Jewish people. He has a plan for the day after and it’s very clear to anyone who listens: ‘Total victory’ — and eventually the return of Jewish settlement there. Israel is on the way to reoccupying Gaza.”

If that happens, Israel will become an international pariah and Jewish institutions everywhere will be torn between Jews who will feel the need to defend Israel — right or wrong — and those who, with their kids, will find it indefensible.

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[-] Blackbeard@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago

I'm sure his administration is rushing around like lunatics to try to orchestrate something behind the scenes. They know their shortest path to victory is being able to say "Look! We brokered a cease fire! We ended the war!" But they know they can't throttle back one iota until that becomes a reality. He temporarily paused a bomb shipment and the media piled all over his ass in a chorus with Republicans (and some Democrats). Suddenly he was "helping Hamas". I think that's the true poison pill of his whole debacle. If he does anything other than full-throated support, he will be labeled an antisemite and also an ally to terrorists because the media is largely feckless and naive and can be led around by the nose. The right wing mediasphere is practically salivating at the prospect of Biden giving them a potent attack angle.

I hope he finds the goldilocks zone soon, but I'm afraid it's vanishingly small and shrinking every day.

[-] Zaktor@sopuli.xyz -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

But they know they can’t throttle back one iota until that becomes a reality.

This is just an utter failure in leadership. The majority of his party doesn't support Israel's war. A smaller majority of all Americans don't support it. If you can't make that a winning issue and feel straightjacketed by the opinion of your enemies, that's a you problem.

You sources are, for reference:

Daily Mail, a rightwing UK tabloid
Republicans
26 Democrats led by centrists who opposed BBB (more have called for restrictions)
A rehash of the things you already listed by a site run by an Israeli rightwing politician
Fox News
Israel's "far right" (right in the title)
The New York Post

Biden needs to realize who his friends and allies are. Fuck the rightwing mediasphere. If they were able to dictate which position would lose Biden the election, it's already over. The 26 Democrats are the only problem in that whole list, and they've been a thorn in his eye before and were brought to heel by the party machinery reinforcing that opposing your own party's president is a bad idea.

[-] Blackbeard@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I cited those sources specifically to show what his enemies will flood the airwaves with if he changes course. Their bias is exactly the problem I'm illuminating.

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