"I am by the White House in Washington DC where Jews are rallying in support of Palestine and Israel and are asking
Netanyahu to "stop the killings", say no genocide in their names."
-Simon Ateba
We need to hear more from people around the world that demand a ceasefire & peace🕊️from Netanyahu, Hamas leaders and their enablers.
Update from IfNotNowOrg: American Jews and allies have now blocked 4+ doors to the White House. We’re prepared to put our bodies in the way of more slaughter — we’re ready to stay here until Biden forces a ceasefire.
@KimPerales There isn't much Biden can do here other than threaten to withold aid, right? (This may be a failure of imagination on my part.)
If so:
Would threatening Hamas with withholding aid get them to agree to stop murdering, raping, and kidnapping people? I don't think there's any evidence from their past behavior that this would work, but I'd love to read an argument that it would. (It might degrade their ability to do so, I suppose, since a lot of that aid goes to military purposes, IIUC. Civilians, as always, would suffer if we did this.)
Would threatening Israel work? If there was some way Israel could achieve their objective here (eliminating Hamas as a terrorist threat) while also doing something that kills fewer civilians, then I think it could! But that's a big if: I'm ignorant – are there more steps Israel could be taking to limit civilian deaths? If not, then, alas, no, it probably wouldn't. I think it's clear they need to achieve this objective, one way or another. I guess biden and the US could then wash our hands of any further casualties. (Well, not really, but it's a step.)
It might be more useful for Biden to use this carrot to pressure Israel into doing other things, like: due process, protect palestinians from settlers more fairly, etc, etc.
