Bear-hug all you like Biden, but just take away Netanyahu's toys.
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“He needs to say, ‘I’m for Israel, but I’m not for this extreme rightwing government.’ And that means if [Netanyahu] defies the United States, not allowing aid, or going into Rafah” – which Biden has said must not happen but Netanyahu has said will – “[then] no more weapons transfers … unconditionally.
“It means not protecting [Netanyahu] from the entire international community at the United Nations, it means recognising a Palestinian state. And those are the things I think some of the Arab American community want.”
Asked about a looming clash over Rafah, Khanna highlighted Netanyahu’s behaviour, refusing to heed Biden’s warning that the attack would represent a “red line”.
“What I disagree with and sort of the media narrative on this [is that] Netanyahu and Biden, somehow they’re equals,” Khanna said.
“They’re not. We’re the greatest superpower in the world. We’re giving Netanyahu weapons. He needs to be deferential with respect to the American president, whoever that is. And I find it insufferably arrogant for him to act as if he’s somehow an equal to the American president. And that’s just going to rub people the wrong way.
Exactly.
If the US didn't support Israel, Israel wouldn't still be around.
Unconditional support just makes them act like they're always right.
Think of it like a toddler, if you only tell them good things and never punish them, you're going to end up with an entitled little shit that constantly causes problems and if there's any repercussions, then drag the parent into the fight while hurling insults from under their moms skirt.
Lol. This picture .. His face makes it all the better.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
“The bear-hugging of Netanyahu has been a strategic mistake,” Ro Khanna said, accusing the Israeli leader of conducting “a callous war” in Gaza, in defiance of the United States.
Speaking to One Decision, a podcast co-hosted by Sir Richard Dearlove, a former British intelligence chief, Khanna, from California, also called Netanyahu “insufferably arrogant”, for acting as if he is “somehow an equal” to Biden.
Liz Landers, a One Decision guest host, asked Khanna about a recent trip to Michigan to meet leaders of the state’s large Arab American community.
I’ve been in Congress eight years and my record reflects that I unequivocally condemned the brutal Hamas attack [on Israel] on 7 October, the rapes, the murders.
Asked about a looming clash over Rafah, Khanna highlighted Netanyahu’s behaviour, refusing to heed Biden’s warning that the attack would represent a “red line”.
Khanna said there was potential for the convention, in mid-August, to generate unwelcome echoes of chaos in Chicago in 1968, the year of an election won by the Republican Richard Nixon amid protests against the Vietnam war.
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I don't think I'd call Ro Khanna a key democrat.
This is the whole tan suit obama thing all over again
Supporting a genocide and wearing a tan suit is basically the same thing when you think about it
This article is about a hug
A hug with whom?
Should we talk about who Trump has hugged?
They're not talking about Biden physically hugging Netanyahu himself, but his diplomatic strategy with respect to Israel. Basically pledging unwavering support so that Israel can be talked down and restrained from doing all that it might otherwise do.
Except it's unclear exactly how it's worked here, perhaps apart from preventing some potentially huge escalation in the North against Hezbollah and Lebanon.
Oh sorry I'm stupid. I thought it was just the awkward hug.