Israeli officials suggested that the increased military aid was part of a deal to get Netanyahu to agree to the Gaza ceasefire deal. Trump’s envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, has said he’s pushing for the full implementation of the agreement, but the ceasefire is very fragile as Netanyahu doesn’t want to implement the second phase.

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    There was no distinction between the candidates on this issue. Biden just sent $8 billion in arms less than a month ago. There were plenty differences between candidates, but this is not one.

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        It was a hill Biden & the democrats didn’t need to die on. The last year in Gaza was inexcusable and gaslighting potential voters was embarrassing. Shame on the democrats for making genocide a wedge issue

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              I’m sure the foreigners Trump puts into the concentration camps he is building will thank you for thinking of them.

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                As ever, the future crimes you’re imagining Trump committing matter more to you than the crimes democracts already committed.

                Spare me, you’ve already said that genocide doesn’t matter compared to what colour of fascist is running the USA, don’t pretend you care about foreigners being put in camps beyond being a vector to crow about orange man bad.

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        Manipulate? Trump is so 40000 IQ that he forced Biden to look like a fucking puppet on the world stage, giving in to every single one of netanyahu’s demands.

        Trump WAS the harm reduction candidate, he got a ceasefire brokered before he was fucking president. All while Biden was licking israel’s asshole begging for scraps.