US President Joe Biden strongly defended Israel on Monday, saying Israeli forces are not committing genocide in their military campaign against Hamas militants in Gaza.

“What’s happening in Gaza is not genocide. We reject that,” Biden said at a Jewish American Heritage Month event at the White House.

I can’t tell if he’s pandering or trying to lose the election

  • @Mostly_Harmless_Variant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    -19•1 month ago

    Hamas is a terrorist group. Not all Palestinians are Hamas. Israel is targeting Hamas. They have done their best to minimize Palestinian civilian causalities. It’s not genocide. If they were going for genocide, this would have been over with a long time ago.

    The problem is, we as the general public, have gut reactions to things we don’t understand and aren’t directly involved in. This is made worse with misinformation and poor Internet literacy.

    Another problem is that many Americans’ view points are sympathetic to terrorists. But, as I’ve heard somewhere “one person’s terrorist is another’s freedom fighter.” These people believe Hamas aren’t terrorists and are wrongly being fired upon, therefore Israel is bad.

    Another group, Trump supporters and the like, will twist anything Biden does negatively because it doesn’t align with their narrative.

    • @CanadaPlusEnglish
      17•1 month ago

      They have done their best to minimize Palestinian civilian causalities.

      Where does denying entry of food and water to the whole strip factor in to that?

      Also, mandatory comment that terrorist is a meaningless word, since I don’t want it being used as a rhetorical crutch. I don’t like Hamas because they are brutal theocrats who care nothing for human rights.