Close to 300 ex-Obama-Biden staffers call to suspend military assistance to Israel

[David__77]

Philip Martin, a former Obama-Biden administration staffer, says he feels betrayed by President Joe Biden’s “unconditional support” for Israel as it continues its attack in Gaza, almost seven months after the terrorist group Hamas killed 1,200 people in Israel and took 250 hostages.

Martin, a former director in the U.S. Department of Education, told USA TODAY he’d joined the Obama campaign in 2008 because he was furious that the Bush administration had “hijacked" the country's pain to justify kill civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But now, he says Biden is having a similar effect with his Israel foreign policy.

“Seeing the Biden administration provide unconditional support to the Israeli war machine that is killing, displacing, starving, and otherwise terrorizing Palestinian civilians makes me just as furious and feels like a betrayal,” he said.

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/05/02/ex-obama-biden-staffers-suspend-aid-to-israel/73539778007/

[tritsofme]

1. Great to see they are all no longer working for the government!

Wonderful news!

[enid602]

2. Disadvantages

Being a worldwide pariah state has some disadvantages.

[dutch777]

3. Just don't think we are helping Israelis or ourselves in the long run. There is NO END GAME that is not worse than...

...status quo. Israel, with or without our hel,p will not defeat Hamas, maybe morph it more underground it until is regenerates into Hamas 2.0 or whatever new name is chosen. Hezbollah and Iran and especially Iran's money will still be in play to the same bad ends. Yes, the Houthi's are a side show but are managing to show that the combined might and $$$ and militaries of the likes of the US, UK and Saudi Arabia are much more limited in these matters than anyone wants to admit. I am very afraid this issue in some battleground states could keep home enough otherwise solid Dem voters to give the deal to Trump. The swing is not 1 million votes, its 10,000 or so some places. We Dems and Biden need to be mindful.

[ripcord]

4. President Biden has already said the student protests won't have any affect on his ME policy

I doubt he will listen to ex staffers.

[David__77]

5. Nelson Mandela said "it always seems impossible until it's done."

[ripcord]

6. Remember what Einstein said about doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results