Biden staffers admit what we all knew: White House lied about ceasefire efforts : worldnews

[–] teagrrl@lemmy.ml 32 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"Tirelessly working for a ceasefire!"

They never lifted a finger. Remind liberals of this constantly.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They'll still defend it, somehow.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They still do.

The nice thing about being on lemmy is that these morons get shredded even in the .world community when they roll in with the "ThIs iS wHaT yOu gEt FOr vOTiNg tRuMp" as if Biden didn't just full send a 15 month long destruction and killing of Gaza.

[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 days ago

Yep, even the median people on Lemmy.world are slowly coming to correct analysis slowly.

[–] Transform2942@lemmy.ml 79 points 5 days ago (1 children)

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Now that's some high quality P-N-G

[–] Transform2942@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Only the finest pixels for the Lemmy

[–] gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com 67 points 4 days ago

Biden said many, many times over decades that he is a Zionist. Zionists don't end Zionism. It was an obvious lie.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Trump may destroy America, but Biden was the one who enabled it. Fuck that guy. Bernie is who we needed, and what we got was a piece of shit Democrat.

[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 4 days ago

It's not just Biden. A lot of the legal tools Trump is using were put in place under Clinton.

[–] 3abas@lemm.ee 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Bernie is just a little nicer, he backed Biden when it mattered.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Because Bernie knew the system is rigged against him and thus allowed neoliberals like Biden to have their way. Now that the DNC lost pathetically to an orange man, and the DNC leadership is enabling fascism, I don't hear "vote blue no matter who" nonsense anymore. And Bernie and AOC have the last laugh and "told you so" moment to the DNC. Their tours are gathering record number crowds since Obama's 2008 campaign.

[–] JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee 49 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Perhaps the most damning statement came from former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Herzog, who said, “God did the State of Israel a favor that Biden was the president during this period, because it could have been much worse. We fought [in Gaza] for over a year, and the administration never came to us and said, ‘ceasefire now.’ It never did. And that’s not to be taken for granted.”

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 10 points 4 days ago

And Netanyahu still treated Biden like his little bitch

[–] wurzelgummidge@lemmy.ml 41 points 4 days ago

Arguing about who said what at this stage is pointless. Did Biden halt arms sales, or did he double down on sending them? If you are trying to stop a genocide you don't send thousands of tons of weapons to a genocidal maniac

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But it's the RePuBliCaNs guys not, the Democrats.

[–] mrcleanup@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Let's be honest, neither is perfect, but only one party is gutting all the parts of government that actually help anyone.

There's a difference between being two faced with foreign policy and actively breaking the machinery that let's your own government function.

[–] Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago (4 children)

As far as I can read from the report, one staffer quit as a result of a misleading report written by... not the white house, and the others lamented that Netanyahu was deliberately obstructing negotiations. To say that that equates to lying about working towards a ceasefire seems to be misleading at the least.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 30 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Maybe if that were the only proof, but we all know about all the aid, weapons, bombs, and jets sent to Israel during this time. It's not as if this report exists in a vacuum.

[+] Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works -18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

And we also know about the aid that was sent to Gaza against the protests of Israel. We also know about the majority of obstruction coming from Netanyahu. I'm not saying they did a great job, but to say that they were outright lying about even trying to stop it is disingenuous, and seems pretty clearly a way to detract from the current situation.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How is the slight amount of aid they sent any proof of trying to stop it? They also could've come out against Netanyahu at any time, or forced his hand by stopping the delivering or fast tracking of weapons (by using the US's own laws) but he didn't. It was very clearly a lie that they were working tirelessly for a ceasefire.

[+] Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works -15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It would be a lie if they said they tried every avenue possible, but they didn't. They did try with less effective strategies and they should be lambasted for their ineffectiveness but not for "lying they were working tirelessly". Those are two different standards.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Okay, so you're just playing with words, like a djinn or the devil in every movie they're in lol. A genocide is happening my dude. We all knew what they meant when they kept trying to say they were working for a ceasefire and what they were trying to portray. If they had an intern write a character a day in an eventual handwritten note they would snail mail to Netanyahu's office after a year and a half asking them to politely please stop the attacks, then you'd consider that as them "working everyday" for the ceasefire, when we would know they weren't? Miss me with that shit.

They're not really trying at all for something if they're not using easily available options. If I went to work and said I got nothing done this for two years because I needed some report from some other team that I never actually asked for directly and never emailed them about, it would be fair if everyone thought I lied in my performance review about how hard I worked. That's essentially what this former Israeli ambassador revealed, even though we all kind of knew it anyway.

Contrast that with Trump who came in and immediately started demanding a ceasefire deal. Trump! The biggest fucking biggest idiot in the world. It's how they got one done, even if it only lasted a short time, it was some relief for a bit.

“What happened,” a senior Israeli government official told Channel 14, regarded as a mouthpiece for Netanyahu, “is that Witkoff delivered a stern message from the incoming president of the United States, who unequivocally demanded the deal’s conclusion.”

Writing in the daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth this week, Nadav Eyal summed up the situation confronting Israel’s prime minister and his closest aides. “Netanyahu … suddenly came to recognise precisely where it is that they stand with the new American president. They came to realise that Trump speaks at dictation pace, and they will never be able to outflank him from the right. Trump, once again, wants a deal.” The Guardian

Bide never demanded shit.

[+] Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works -10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Trump and Co also put pressure not to allow a deal during the Biden admin so that there wouldn't be any shared credit. Netanyahu and the Israeli government went along with it because they thought they could get a better deal and so far that looks to be the case considering there hasn't been any pushback since they violated the ceasefire that was in place and escalated the genocide in the last few months including blocking all aid since shortly after Trump took office. https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-ceasefire-hostages-netanyahu-ff48f081b069e484955a72bc68261364

Miss me with that revisionist history.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 10 points 4 days ago

Biden had years to get a ceasefire done and never once demanded it. You can't deny that. The only reason Trump was able to interfere is because Biden took forever, and there was no reason to take the Biden deal because they knew what they would get with Biden - absolute freedom to do whatever they wanted and he wouldn't do anything if they slow rolled it out interfered with the deal. The Biden admin made that obvious and Israel here has confirmed it. The ceasefire failing is awful but we would have never got one in the first place if Biden was still President. And the genocide has lways been escalating. They were already restricting aid during Biden, that's why they tried to do that stupid pier thing that failed, even though they could have demanded Israel open up the roads for aid trucks. It's always been steadily increasing in more destruction, less aid, more dead journalists, more dead UNRWA and other aid workers, etc. It's the same deal as before just in a Trumpian instead of Biden fashion.

[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 4 days ago

Wow, taking a page right out of Trump's playbook - Biden failed while he was in power because of Trump when Trump wasn't in power. You really are Blue MAGA

[–] DancingBear@midwest.social 11 points 4 days ago

Come on dude, quit making excuses. Blue no matter who is a failed strategy.

[–] AltMediaGuy@altmedia.house 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The article links to a video where Harris states: "the president and I are working around the clock every day to get that ceasefire deal done." here.

[+] Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works -23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And where is the evidence to refute that? In the article, every complaint from the staffers that were published refer to Netanyahu being the one holding shit up. Transcribe where the staffers said Biden wasn't working around the clock. It's not there.

[–] AltMediaGuy@altmedia.house 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Here's an article from Times of Israel corroborating the claims:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-biden-aide-israel-missed-opportunity-for-saudi-deal-hopefully-it-wont-do-so-again/

“God did the State of Israel a favor that Biden was the president during this period, because it could have been much worse. We fought [in Gaza] for over a year and the administration never came to us and said, ‘ceasefire now.’ It never did. And that’s not to be taken for granted,” the former Israeli ambassador said.

Emphasis mine

[+] Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works -20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

What claims? Again that article describes Biden and the admin of being frustrated with Netanyahu and some of his ministers. It also lays out how Biden and the admin were trying to negotiate and create pressure to force Netanyahu out through elections.

You have one quote from one former ambassador with no supporting evidence.

Even that would indicate that there was no ultimatum of "ceasefire or else" given, but still leaves open the "hey this is a bad idea and you're only going to cause death and genocide and force more people to support your opposition".

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That wouldn't be tirelessly working for a ceasefire at all.

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's not the smoking gun like the title claims, but it is another piece of evidence in the pile.

[+] GlacialTurtle@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

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[+] Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works -20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The person in charge of the state department is the Secretary of State (Antony Blinken). Which is a stretch to say that it comes directly from Biden or the White House since it is written by a branch department. It comes from the state department. The memo declaring that they had to publish that information came from Biden, but again the response that you're livid at was written by the state department. Notice how the only people who were targeted in the article were people who didn't publish that bullshit? Whoever wrote the report is clearly disingenuous but to directly tie that to their superiors is not how that works. You need actual evidence and so far all I have seen is hearsay.

The video of Harris saying that her and Biden are doing all they can is also probably overplaying it a bit, but again the only evidence in that article is that other staffers were complaining about Netanyahu being the problem.

How does that translate into "Biden lied about doing everything and oh yeah let's throw a hit piece on AOC" and finish the article off on that note with also no evidence beyond hearsay?

[+] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth -23 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I see a shit ton of .ml accounts signal boosting this article, partying like its October 2024. I don't buy the legitimacy of "altmedia.house" either. None of it passes the sniff test, to say nothing of the current state of the world.

[+] Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works -19 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Yeah I've been generally assuming this is outside interference from conservatives to fuck with democrat morale. It's not coherent or logically laid out and has no evidence that actually supports the conclusion....

Sounds really conservative to me after that.

[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 4 days ago

LOL, you think conservatives are worried about Democrat morale being so high that it might make them effective at something? Jesus you people are just so wrapped up in your own bullshit fantasy. The Republicans do not care about hurting the morale of Democrat voters. The Democratic party, it's leaders, and the elected officials that adhere to it destroy voter morale all on their own without any need for assistance.

Essentially, the Republicans are following this aphorism - Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.

[+] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth -20 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Yeah I was gonna say, blaming Biden for anything is exactly what Trump is doing right now. lol

[–] stephen01king@lemmy.zip 22 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Its funny that we're not allowed to call out Biden for his bullshit before the election, and now we still can't call out Biden for his bullshit after the election even after their bullshit contributed to the Democrat's loss. When are you guys ever gonna learn if any criticism is hand waved away as being a Republican misinformation effort. Do you want to continue losing the election?

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago

Here's the neat part, we're not allowed any criticism of their favorite team.

Any criticism, even if it would help them in the elections they swear will stop fascism for real this time, is actually bad for their moral. So why allow criticism when it hurts the idea of "They can't be blamed, the voters are the problem!"

[–] AltMediaGuy@altmedia.house 18 points 4 days ago

Fuck Biden.

[–] AltMediaGuy@altmedia.house -1 points 4 days ago

The article links to a video where Harris states: "the president and I are working around the clock every day to get that ceasefire deal done." here.

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