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

  • gmtom@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    6 months ago

    More like he wants average middle aged swing state voters to vote for him, since those are the only people that really matter and they are typically pro Israel.

    • Wes4Humanity@lemm.eeEnglish
      111·
      6 months ago

      Okay but seriously who’s out there, wringing their hands, trying to figure out if they’ll vote Trump or Biden? No one. If you’re voting for Trump, there is absolutely nothing Biden (or Trump for that matter) could do to change your mind. All those centrist neolibs in the swing states are going to vote for Biden regardless, because there’s no one else for them to vote for. The true “undecided voters” are undecided between showing up and just not showing up. And shit like this just pushes them closer to the not showing up position. Every time Biden panders to his already locked in centrist base, instead of trying to get progressives to show up for him, it should be considered a willful attempt to get Trump elected.

      • gmtom@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 months ago

        It seems like the country is totally polarised because the most extreme people shout the loudest.

        People who are undecided don’t make memes or aggressive twitter posts about how undecided they are etc.

        And while the GOP establishment are fully on Trumps side there is a sizeable contingent of people who are usually republicans that are put off by trumps bullshit, but still don’t really want to vote for a “lib” like Biden either. And if he “supported hamas terorrists” that very well could be more than enough to put them off.

        • Wes4Humanity@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          I’ll look myself, but any chance you’ve found any research with numbers for these groups? Are there more progressives and young people deciding between show up or not show up, or more centrists deciding between Biden and Trump?