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Omar says Israel policy divisions won’t stop her from supporting Biden in November (thehill.com)

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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) said policy differences toward Israel between her and President Biden won’t stop her from supporting him in the November general election.

“Of course,” Omar said Tuesday, when asked by CNN’s Abby Phillip on “NewsNight” whether she would vote for Biden if the election were held that day, in a clip highlighted by Mediaite. “Democracy is on the line, we are facing down fascism.”

“And I personally know what my life felt like having Trump as the president of this country, and I know what it felt like for my constituents, and for people around this country and around the world,” Omar continued. “We have to do everything that we can to make sure that does not happen to our country again.”

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[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

He's doing a lot of diplomacy behind closed doors, a bit too much for my taste even, but that's how he's always worked and he'll keep doing that, so there's not much visible but the few public statements. I think he needs to do more, but he's very risk averse and the problem is that if he just straight up blocks all support for Israel then that could cause chaos (risk for war in the region, loss of internal support, etc).

[-] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

but he’s very risk averse

If he was averse to risk, he'd stop doing all this shit his voters hate less than a year out from an election...

He's being dangerously risky right now, and we're all fucked if it turns out he made a bad judgement call and loses the election.

he just straight up blocks all support for Israel then that could cause chaos (risk for war in the region, loss of internal support, etc).

At the same time, Biden says trump is incredibly dangerous, and him becoming president again could be the end of American democracy.

And I agree with that.

Which is why I think Biden putting Israel over America is so fucking stupid.

America isn't responsible for the safety of Israel. If America stopped protecting them at the UN, and the UN forced them to stop their genocide...

That wouldn't be the end of Israel, just the end of their current genocide.

If Israel got attacked after that and invaded, then aid to Israel would be a different story and the rest of the UN would be helping.

You're arguing from this false stance where Joe Biden is the only thing keeping Israel a state right now, and ignoring that his support of Israel could very well lead to the actual end of American democracy.

The president of America's priority should be America, not if a foreign country might have to stop their genocide.

Like, if Biden was stopping a genocide, that would be different.

Do you legitimately not understand any of that?

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