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"Tirelessly working for a ceasefire!"
They never lifted a finger. Remind liberals of this constantly.
They'll still defend it, somehow.
They still do.
The nice thing about being on lemmy is that these morons get shredded even in the .world community when they roll in with the "ThIs iS wHaT yOu gEt FOr vOTiNg tRuMp" as if Biden didn't just full send a 15 month long destruction and killing of Gaza.
Yep, even the median people on Lemmy.world are slowly coming to correct analysis slowly.
Trump may destroy America, but Biden was the one who enabled it. Fuck that guy. Bernie is who we needed, and what we got was a piece of shit Democrat.
Bernie is just a little nicer, he backed Biden when it mattered.
Because Bernie knew the system is rigged against him and thus allowed neoliberals like Biden to have their way. Now that the DNC lost pathetically to an orange man, and the DNC leadership is enabling fascism, I don't hear "vote blue no matter who" nonsense anymore. And Bernie and AOC have the last laugh and "told you so" moment to the DNC. Their tours are gathering record number crowds since Obama's 2008 campaign.
Now that's some high quality P-N-G
But it's the RePuBliCaNs guys not, the Democrats.
Let's be honest, neither is perfect, but only one party is gutting all the parts of government that actually help anyone.
There's a difference between being two faced with foreign policy and actively breaking the machinery that let's your own government function.
Biden said many, many times over decades that he is a Zionist. Zionists don't end Zionism. It was an obvious lie.
Perhaps the most damning statement came from former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Herzog, who said, “God did the State of Israel a favor that Biden was the president during this period, because it could have been much worse. We fought [in Gaza] for over a year, and the administration never came to us and said, ‘ceasefire now.’ It never did. And that’s not to be taken for granted.”
And Netanyahu still treated Biden like his little bitch
Arguing about who said what at this stage is pointless. Did Biden halt arms sales, or did he double down on sending them? If you are trying to stop a genocide you don't send thousands of tons of weapons to a genocidal maniac
As far as I can read from the report, one staffer quit as a result of a misleading report written by... not the white house, and the others lamented that Netanyahu was deliberately obstructing negotiations. To say that that equates to lying about working towards a ceasefire seems to be misleading at the least.
Maybe if that were the only proof, but we all know about all the aid, weapons, bombs, and jets sent to Israel during this time. It's not as if this report exists in a vacuum.
And we also know about the aid that was sent to Gaza against the protests of Israel. We also know about the majority of obstruction coming from Netanyahu. I'm not saying they did a great job, but to say that they were outright lying about even trying to stop it is disingenuous, and seems pretty clearly a way to detract from the current situation.
How is the slight amount of aid they sent any proof of trying to stop it? They also could've come out against Netanyahu at any time, or forced his hand by stopping the delivering or fast tracking of weapons (by using the US's own laws) but he didn't. It was very clearly a lie that they were working tirelessly for a ceasefire.
It would be a lie if they said they tried every avenue possible, but they didn't. They did try with less effective strategies and they should be lambasted for their ineffectiveness but not for "lying they were working tirelessly". Those are two different standards.
Okay, so you're just playing with words, like a djinn or the devil in every movie they're in lol. A genocide is happening my dude. We all knew what they meant when they kept trying to say they were working for a ceasefire and what they were trying to portray. If they had an intern write a character a day in an eventual handwritten note they would snail mail to Netanyahu's office after a year and a half asking them to politely please stop the attacks, then you'd consider that as them "working everyday" for the ceasefire, when we would know they weren't? Miss me with that shit.
They're not really trying at all for something if they're not using easily available options. If I went to work and said I got nothing done this for two years because I needed some report from some other team that I never actually asked for directly and never emailed them about, it would be fair if everyone thought I lied in my performance review about how hard I worked. That's essentially what this former Israeli ambassador revealed, even though we all kind of knew it anyway.
Contrast that with Trump who came in and immediately started demanding a ceasefire deal. Trump! The biggest fucking biggest idiot in the world. It's how they got one done, even if it only lasted a short time, it was some relief for a bit.
“What happened,” a senior Israeli government official told Channel 14, regarded as a mouthpiece for Netanyahu, “is that Witkoff delivered a stern message from the incoming president of the United States, who unequivocally demanded the deal’s conclusion.”
Writing in the daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth this week, Nadav Eyal summed up the situation confronting Israel’s prime minister and his closest aides. “Netanyahu … suddenly came to recognise precisely where it is that they stand with the new American president. They came to realise that Trump speaks at dictation pace, and they will never be able to outflank him from the right. Trump, once again, wants a deal.” The Guardian
Bide never demanded shit.
Trump and Co also put pressure not to allow a deal during the Biden admin so that there wouldn't be any shared credit. Netanyahu and the Israeli government went along with it because they thought they could get a better deal and so far that looks to be the case considering there hasn't been any pushback since they violated the ceasefire that was in place and escalated the genocide in the last few months including blocking all aid since shortly after Trump took office. https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-ceasefire-hostages-netanyahu-ff48f081b069e484955a72bc68261364
Miss me with that revisionist history.
Biden had years to get a ceasefire done and never once demanded it. You can't deny that. The only reason Trump was able to interfere is because Biden took forever, and there was no reason to take the Biden deal because they knew what they would get with Biden - absolute freedom to do whatever they wanted and he wouldn't do anything if they slow rolled it out interfered with the deal. The Biden admin made that obvious and Israel here has confirmed it. The ceasefire failing is awful but we would have never got one in the first place if Biden was still President. And the genocide has lways been escalating. They were already restricting aid during Biden, that's why they tried to do that stupid pier thing that failed, even though they could have demanded Israel open up the roads for aid trucks. It's always been steadily increasing in more destruction, less aid, more dead journalists, more dead UNRWA and other aid workers, etc. It's the same deal as before just in a Trumpian instead of Biden fashion.
Come on dude, quit making excuses. Blue no matter who is a failed strategy.
The article links to a video where Harris states: "the president and I are working around the clock every day to get that ceasefire deal done." here.
And where is the evidence to refute that? In the article, every complaint from the staffers that were published refer to Netanyahu being the one holding shit up. Transcribe where the staffers said Biden wasn't working around the clock. It's not there.
Here's an article from Times of Israel corroborating the claims:
“God did the State of Israel a favor that Biden was the president during this period, because it could have been much worse. We fought [in Gaza] for over a year and the administration never came to us and said, ‘ceasefire now.’ It never did. And that’s not to be taken for granted,” the former Israeli ambassador said.
Emphasis mine
What claims? Again that article describes Biden and the admin of being frustrated with Netanyahu and some of his ministers. It also lays out how Biden and the admin were trying to negotiate and create pressure to force Netanyahu out through elections.
You have one quote from one former ambassador with no supporting evidence.
Even that would indicate that there was no ultimatum of "ceasefire or else" given, but still leaves open the "hey this is a bad idea and you're only going to cause death and genocide and force more people to support your opposition".
That wouldn't be tirelessly working for a ceasefire at all.
It wouldn't be "using every option available" but that doesn't equal "working tirelessly".
Words matter especially in this era of misusing words to pretend something else is occurring.
It's not the smoking gun like the title claims, but it is another piece of evidence in the pile.
While it is a piece of evidence, there is nothing concrete to support it leading to: Biden and White House lied about cease fire efforts.
It could also be used to say: Biden and White House could have applied more pressure ... if they wanted to lose influence in the negotiations.
this post was submitted on 03 May 2025
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