PugJesus ,
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Except, at least on paper, we all agree that there is a resolution that would be acceptable to both parties.

The two-state solution that the Biden administration has confirmed is the desired solution?

I suspect (as do many other leftists who have a more cynical view of american imperialism than you do) that Biden is well aware of what the right thing to do is, but doesn’t want to be the one to give up the benefits of having Israel as a foothold in the middle east and is willing to accept a genocide in order to keep it.

"the benefits of having Israel as a foothold in the middle east"

This line is trotted out all the fucking time by both Zionists and anti-Zionists, and yet it has not one lick of fucking truth to it.

Israel isn't a good ally. They aren't even a mediocre ally. They're a pariah state we play human shield for because a third of the electorate is high on Israel's propaganda that it's pumped in for the past forty years, and a third is high on religious eschatology.

If Biden ever made a strong case publicly on why Israel is such an important ally that we should ignore their atrocities, it would be impossible for any of us to miss it.

Biden has made the case, publicly, that Israel's atrocities do not rise to the level of being worth being stripped of aid, for political, diplomatic, and security reasons. It's a stupid case, but it is a case.

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