US president reiterates support for Israel in call with Netanyahu amid reports that he is also opposed to counterattack.

US President Joe Biden has condemned Iranian attacks on military facilities in Israel, pledging a coordinated Group of Seven (G7) diplomatic response while highlighting the United States’s help in taking down “nearly all” of the attacking drones and missiles.

Biden, who cut short a trip to Delaware and returned to Washington, DC to meet advisers over the late Saturday night attack, said in a statement released by the White House that the US forces and facilities had not been hit.

The US president said he reiterated the “ironclad” support for Israel’s security in a call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with whom he has had strained relations over Israel’s handling of the war in Gaza.

“Tomorrow, I will convene my fellow G7 leaders to coordinate a united diplomatic response to Iran’s brazen attack,” he said.

“And while we have not seen attacks on our forces or facilities today, we will remain vigilant to all threats and will not hesitate to take all necessary action to protect our people,” he said.

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  • sandman@lemmy.ca
    2726·
    8 months ago

    I’m not voting for Biden ever again.

    1 mistake was enough. Independent or bust.

    • Arin@kbin.social
      163·
      8 months ago

      Biden making multiple mistakes right now. WTF, He’s literally in bed with MIC

      • CableMonster@lemmy.ml
        511·
        8 months ago

        I mean we already lived under trump and know what it was like, its not the hellscape they keep pretending will happen.

        • EvilBit@lemmy.world
          1·
          8 months ago

          Yeah, just a million preventable deaths, huge transfer of wealth to the upper classes, lots of children stolen from their families and caged, but my grocery bill wasn’t that high, so I don’t see the problem.

              • CableMonster@lemmy.ml
                13·
                8 months ago

                This is not controversial, feel free to do a second of research. And Biden had the vaccine too, he really just killed so many.

                • EvilBit@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  8 months ago

                  Holy shit you’re bad at this. “Let me make a broad and extraordinary claim and it’s on you to prove it.”

                  Here’s why your rebuttal sucks and you’re bad at thinking:

                  1. You have never heard of “burden of proof”.
                  2. Biden wasn’t president when COVID was killing a million Americans, so your point is not just vague, it’s stupid.
                  3. You ignored all my other points completely.
                  4. Your only defense was completely unsourced whataboutism.
                  5. You think claiming “it’s not controversial” is like a cheat code for arguments.
                  6. Your fundamental “hellscape” argument relies on a definition of badness that is so impossibly narrow and dismissive that you’re basically claiming that Trump would only be a bad president if people were literally suffering and dying in the streets in such numbers that everyone had no excuse not to realize it, which utterly invalidates everything any human could do in a presidential term unless they literally went full Hitler.

                  Looking forward to your trenchant and scholarly “no u” rebuttal.

    • ganksy@lemmy.world
      1215·
      8 months ago

      That’s fine. Just save us your opinion about the alternative shit show that unveils when Trump’s in office. That guy hired John Bomb Iran Bolton as his national security advisor. Trump basically pushed the button himself to kill Qasem Soleimani when his advisors weren’t extreme enough.

      If it’s only Palestinians you care about, remember who moved the US embassy in Israel to Tell Aviv. With trump back in office, Bibi could prop up his regime for another 4yrs.

      RFK or bust but you won’t get to wash your hands of this going forward.

              • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
                81·
                8 months ago

                I’m trans in a red state. If Trump wins I might die.

                I’m still not voting for Biden.

                Not like it fucking matters, if my state passes a “kill all the trans people” law Biden wouldn’t stop them.

                • ganksy@lemmy.world
                  28·
                  8 months ago

                  So you’re arguing that both sides are the same? You could argue that he may not stop states from archaic legislation but he’s not going to help them. Every one of the supreme justices that have refused to conserve your rights has been designed in their position by the right. I say live to fight another day. We haven’t come far enough but it’s still far from how things were 50yrs ago. Ever heard the saying don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good? Well, don’t let the epically flawed be the enemy of the tyrant.

                  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
                    81·
                    8 months ago

                    No. I’m arguing that both sides are bad in different ways.

                    I voted for Biden in 2020 and Democrats in 2022 because I believed they were the lesser of two evils.

                    Then the genocide in Gaza accelerated and I’m realizing there are no lesser evils in this country. Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good? My dude, America is the enemy of the good! And as those protesters in Michigan said, Death to America

        • ganksy@lemmy.world
          76·
          8 months ago

          Totally agree. I cannot wash my hands of my complicity in this genocide in my inability to help guide my country to ethical, consistent policies.

          I admit, all I can do is try to keep the worst out of power.