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"As the president of the United States, you have power to change the course of history, and the responsibility to save lives right now," the staffers wrote.

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[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 128 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (16 children)

Taking from my comment on the other community where you posted this:

Biden asked for one and reported Netanyahu said no.

The headline sounds like he’s just dismissing his staffers

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 75 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

You mean the headline is intentionally misleading to the point of misinforming people?

It's straight up journalistic malpractice the way they phrased it

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[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

"Ok then stop sending bombs and using reaper drones to help them perform mass killings"

"No can do chief, Bibi told me I need to keep doing all that."

[–] daftwerder@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago

Considering the power that the US has over Israel, he pretty much is just dismissing his staffers.

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[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago (5 children)

To be fair, i don't think Israel is going to do a cease fire even if we yeet all the aid and support we promised them. Netty has been wanting this fight for... ages.

[–] jimmydoreisalefty@lemmus.org 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not too sure on that, US has many ways to force cease fires as good as starting coups.

I think if we had a president and congress that wanted it done, it would be done.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if we had a president and congress that wanted it done, Israel wouldn't have felt comfortable doing it in the first place, really. I'm just saying at this point, I don't think there's a lot we can do. and as for starting a coup... that has never worked out well for the US.

[–] DaleGribble88@programming.dev 9 points 1 year ago

Au contraire, I saw bananas on sale the other day for just 59 cents.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Considering how well those coups worked out, I’d really like for that sad chapter of US history to stay history, as much as I despise Bibi’s reactionary government.

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[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, if we yeet all the aid we send them, at least we won't be facilitating a genocide in as many ways.

That's a start and a step worth taking.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Keep in mind, part of the reason we’ve given all this aid to Israel, historically, is precisely for that leverage it gives us.

People are rolling in their graves that we’re not using it.

[–] Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ok but I'd really like to see our government try to make demands or ultimatums

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Agreed.

Just because a thing is hard doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be done. I’m just a realist. They won’t stop until the hardliners on both sides are gone.

[–] twisted28@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Or an Embargo similar to the one on Cuba. Bit BiBi said no guys so we will just have to listen to our overlords.

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[–] constate368@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's stop all aid to Israel and go from there.

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[–] FarceOfWill@infosec.pub 4 points 1 year ago

And even if he didn't want the fight, a ceasefire now would destroy his coalition, being down the government , remove him from power, and probably end up with him personally in prison from the outstanding corruption allegations

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This was reported for having a misleading headline, however the headline on the post is the exact same as the headline on the article.

I agree, the headline makes it sound like Biden was addressing the "500+ former staffers" when he was not, that's an issue to take up with commondreams.org.

[–] Sneptaur@pawb.social 4 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Consider the quality of sources allowed to be posted to the community. Some sites are bad, and it’s okay to filter them out in the interest of quality.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We have talked about that, and commondreams.org has a high credibility rating and is allowed to be posted here:

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/common-dreams/

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[–] Maeve@kbin.social 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In just over a month, Israeli bombing has killed nearly 11,000 people in Gaza and displaced more than 70% of the territory's population.

Jesus wept.

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[–] jimbo@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (8 children)

CommonDreams is a garbage site.

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[–] febra@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah. Israel needs land. A ceasefire would prevent that.

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