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If he really wanted to let Israel do what it wants he wouldn't have made aid to Israel contingent on getting aid to Ukraine which got roughly ten times what Israel was supposed to. People forget this but the ground invasion was supposed to happen 48 hours from the attack but was delayed for weeks due to behind the scenes pressure from Biden. And Biden did initially force them to let aid through and even forced them to allow internet access in Gaza at one point.
Israel is not a vassal state of the US, in fact it doesn't even have very deep loyalty to the US as it has good relations with China and Russia. The US cannot dictate policy to Israel and if its too forceful Israel might just decide to throw her lot in with Russia and China. If you think Biden is indifferent to the Palestinians imagine when Israel's patron is Russia or China. I think its clear now that I'm not a fan of the Zionist state but I still prefer Israel on our side and not with the likes of those states.
We'll have to respectfully agree to disagree here but to summarize they cannot dictate their policy of course but they can simply not send bombs. It's easy they just have to not send them, as said.
Don't forget that high ranking officials of the Biden administration have quit because all the usual procedures - including for Ukraine aid - were thrown out the window to send the maximum amount of weapons possible to Israel.
Don't forget also that they vetoed every single one of the ceasefire UN resolutions.
That they tried to cover the fake Al Shifa is a command center as long as they could and that they took the UNRWA accusations at face value and cut all funding to it despite it being critical for the survival of Palestinian refugees and that no relevant evidence has been sent to any international body or even ally.
So yeah I'm not cutting Biden any slack, he has enabled the ethnic cleansing in my book and I won't forget. We can "what if" Trump all day as others have suggested here - not you - but I don't care about hypotheticals. I care about what's happening now.
On another note and because you touch upon that, I don't see the interest for the USA in this relationship, it's clearly not symbiotic or advantageous for both sides, as Israel has no real loyalty to the US as you mentioned, but a parasitic relationship where Israel uses the US to the core and the US gets nothing back except shouldering all the international bad heat that comes with it. If it can't be explained externally it has to internally, and when you see the power of AIPAC and how close they are to many congressmen you understand a lot.
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