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“All they are trying to do is convince us that there is some kind of movement toward where we want,” Siblani said. “But it’s too slow and it’s dragging. It’s more death and casualties that are happening.”

The highest-profile example of the stonewalling came last week when a Palestinian American doctor walked out of a meeting with Biden. But interviews with Muslim and Arab American leaders reveal how that face-to-face protest was only the most conspicuous case of a fracture that has damaged crucial relationships and closed avenues needed to repair them.

But the situation presents a challenge for a president who believes in the political power of personal relationships and has prized his history of sitting down with opponents and critics. It could also jeopardize his reelection this year, with some Muslims warning they are unwilling to support Biden even it that risks returning Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, to the White House.

Salam Al-Marayati, who lives in Los Angeles and leads the Muslim Public Affairs Council, described the attitude as, “Forget them. They have to learn a lesson. And if they lose, that’s the lesson they should learn.”

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[–] natural_motions@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Biden is the only moron here. If he wasn't fixated on supporting this genocide he'd be able to just sit back and watch the GOP eating itself alive. We'd all have a good laugh and then he'd win in November.

Instead he's playing chicken with our Democracy in defense of a far right-wing government half way across the world that despises him.

It's the most politically boneheaded shit I've seen in my entire life, and all in the name of slaughtering children. He's insisted on making it morally impossible for people to vote for him, even as the supposed "lesser of two evils".

[–] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He just shit the bed so bad.

All he had to do was stay the fuck out of it and say I’m not trump and he would have won by a landslide.

Now we will probably get trump and we deserve it.

Yes I am part of that and no I don’t feel bad about it.

You guys decided you would rather have trump and support genocidal actions and said fuck you to us.

Then you beg for our support while calling us idiots.

Generic you, not natural_motions you

[–] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Do you not at all understand why this is a complex issue? Yes he could appease you and a lot of lemmy by denying Isreal aid but he'd upset as many if not more people by doing it, especially when things went real bad and his enemies start saying he hates Jews and backtracked on decades of promises, rolling pictures of dead Israelison the news 24/7

Politics isn't about everyone getting exactly what they want, it's about trying to balance impossible choices and push towards the direction that benefits the most.

[–] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Then I don’t want to hear people bitch at us for not getting in lockstep.

You guys decided that the pro genocidal action side is more important.

Stop begging us to work FOR you, when you won’t work WITH us

[–] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You've got a binary choice between someone who is trying to limit Israeli brutality but giving support and someone who literally cheered on the brutality, demanded more and offered greater support.

I'm not asking you to work for me, I'm pointing out the reality of the situation

[–] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don’t believe he’s actually trying. I believe he is doing the bare minimum he can try and get elected and that is not good enough for me

Is the same attitude that I’ve gotten every mother fucking presidential election about how now they care but they never fucking do

[–] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Of course you choose to belive what suits you, he could go in bare handed and fix the whole thing in a weekend and you'd complain he looked too good doing it.

What is your magic wand solution?

[–] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would bitch he could have done it sooner but it would at least stop my opinion of him going down further, the fact that he chose to do it so late would still hurt him, but at that point he could start rebuilding my opinion of him

[–] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ha of course you would, you want him to be perfect and instant without any consideration for what's actually possible.

[–] NoIWontPickAName@kbin.earth 1 points 2 months ago

So, I say that I am perfectly open to my viewpoint changing and that is your response?

The only one that made him send weapons is him, the only one who can change that right now is him.

I may eventually forgive him what he has done, but I will not forget

[–] hark@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You call it a complex issue but have decided that clearly the solution is to say "fuck the Muslims" because otherwise he'll lose the support of genocide-lovers.

[–] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not the Muslims it's hamas and they would love to kill all the Jews if they could, they try constantly with money from other extremist groups and despotic countries like Iran. If anyone is a genocide lover then its them, and most reasonable people don't want to see them get in a position where they can live out their dreams which is why they support the fight against them.

I'm sick of idiots pretending this is big bad monsters vs sweet innocents who are hard done by because they're Muslim - what is your plan for the hate filled religious zealots desperate to make the whole region even worse than Afghanistan? Just let them win? Just shrug when they complete their river to the sea genocide and focus their oppression on the Palestinian people because their lives are objectively worse but at least the jews are dead?

You don't care about the people you care about ideological purity and finding an excuse to hate

[–] hark@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

How many of the 30,000+ killed so far do you think are hamas?

[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

If he wasn’t fixated on supporting this genocide

It's not Biden - Israel being a holy cow is untouchable policy, not politics. Israel is immune from US politics - and people in the US who doesn't want to sign on to genocidal white supremacism have run straight into that wall (a wall that wasn't supposed to be in a supposedly "democratic" state) and don't really know what to do.

I don't envy you.