“Would the U.S. respond?” ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce asked repeatedly as the president walked away after the end of an unrelated event. He paused, thought for a moment and then returned to the lectern.
“We are devoted to the defense of Israel. We will support Israel. We will help defend Israel and Iran will not succeed,” he said.
According to one U.S. defense official, the assets being moved to the region include both “ships and aircraft.”
Big brother Biden standing behind his little brother bullying everyone and making sure they can’t hit back.
It really sucks that Joe is hitching his legacy to this shitty government (Israel). I’m guessing this is meant as a general strategy to moderate the conflict leaking out of Gaza. But I can’t imagine support for the conflict is still high among US Israelis but I’d have to fact check that. Does Joe need the Jewish vote more than the youth in this election? I just don’t get it.
Israel is a pet project of more than 50 years. Noone is going to throw it out on a whim, genocide or not.
A whim?
Thats what i said!
There are two major issues here:
Joe Biden’s diplomatic job is to try to prevent things from descending into a full-scale regional war, try to protect Gaza civilians, try to reduce tensions, try to keep Israel as an ally… Notice how some of those have come into contradiction with each other? Yeah. He’s trying to thread a very difficult needle.
I’m not saying he’s succeeding, either, but he’s at least trying.
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Iran did not attack israel this is twisting facts.
Has America attacked Russia by supplying Ukraine?
An embrassy is not a valid military target to begin with. it’s a blatant direct attack.
Umm, that’s just factually wrong.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/iranian-forces-fire-rockets-at-israeli-military-in-first-direct-attack-ever-israeli-army-says/2018/05/09/62e3a526-52f7-11e8-a6d4-ca1d035642ce_story.html
That was in 2018. Things have been tense between the countries ever since.
Edit: Look, I’m not trying to defend Israel, here, I’m just pointing out the truth. Truth is all too often a victim of war, and if we pretend Iran has no history of violence directed at Israel, we do ourselves a disservice.
So this is in retaliation for something that happened 5 years ago? What took them so long?
Linkerbaan said Iran didn’t attack Israel. I was just pointing out that Iran actually has a history of attacking Israel, and that Linkerbaan is factually incorrect.
A pretty arbitrary line to draw around ‘factually incorrect.’
You could’ve gone on about Lebanon and Hezbollah too and easily gone back to 2006 without a hiccup, too.
But in this discussion it’s pretty obvious the scope is well within the current events of the embassy being struck this month.
Yes, but that was in response to Iran sponsoring groups like the Houthis that have been committing terrorist attacks.
Which, yes, was probably in response to earlier actions by Israel. Which were in response to earlier actions by Iran. Which were…
I mean, you can probably see where that goes. There are no innocent parties in this, and it’s intellectually dishonest to pretend that there are.
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Embassy staff in the diplomatic service ARE civilian casualties.
I’m sure Israel thinks breaking international laws are worth it but there’s consequences.
I only read of the seven IRGC military casualties. If there were more, I didn’t know about them.
That’s all the media focused on but it wasn’t an empty embassy on a workday. It’s like how the world media focused on the WCK workers killed in Gaza but ignored the Palestinian drivers who also were killed.
I just read more, and you’re right. I’ll delete my comments. Thank you for prompting me to look for more information.