I feel for Biden. This is a tough situation. Our policy is mealy-mouthed in the face of a merciless displacement, killing, and starving 100s of 1000s. My opinion has been made clear enough. We're complicit.
I feel for Biden because he has to negotiate a complex problem in a US that wants a simple good-evil presentation. He's also got to worry about taking any stand that makes it any easier for Trump to assume the presidency and finish destroying republic. There is no way Biden loses my vote. No way.
I was driving and listening to NPR. A US government official, probably former, with the State Dept was to be interviewed. I rolled my eyes. As with many of my predictions, I was wrong.
He brought up a hard fact that altered my attitude somewhat toward support for Israel. He used the example of 30% of the missiles fired from Iran were intercepted by the US and allies. I was all for the defensive measures, but I hadn't really thought of the implications.
One, keeping Israel from being done like Gaza is being done is unacceptable. As unacceptable as what Israel perpetrates this very day. Two, while I still think we should cut off supply of weapons being used in Gaza, I have a deeper understanding feel for Isael's the Israeli people's dependence on the US to deter devastation. The Israeli goverment can all be kicked out of helicopters over the sea or over Gaza.
Our electorate's binary mindset about conflict, good-guy v bad guy, does not allow for anything but the most simplistic discourse. The GЯP's insistence on turning any issue into a pack of lies to be used as a dagger in the back of American interests makes Biden's position even tougher.
The same concern I have for the Gazans would be there for Israel pushed toward a similar situation. I wish we were not involved at all and that a Jewish State could have been set up somewhere in the West. Utah probably wouldn't work out, but somewhere they wouldn't have been immediately beset.
Another fucking novel. Sorry about that.