The videos and images coming out of Israel are fucking horrific. We’re not going to be sharing them here and we ask our commenters to please use caution and be considerate of others if they feel they have to, but we’re also not going to moderate them except in the most extreme cases. Anyone sensitive may want to avoid the comments for a while – and Twitter for that matter. It is absolutely gut-wrenching to see what these sick fucking animals have done and are still doing to people.
This is exactly why so many Americans & Israelis were DISGUSTED to see @JoeBiden give the Iranian regime $6 billion last month. Every dollar given to Iran funds terrorism in the Ayatollah’s quest to destroy Israel.
Iran is behind today’s invasion & everyone must say that.
— Rick Scott (@SenRickScott) October 7, 2023
Which makes this shitshow perfect for our fellow Americans to capitalize upon politically with the most tenuous connection to the Biden Administration’s foreign policy. Why let gruesome images of children shot dead in a van on a highway go to waste when they can score a few points with voters who don’t otherwise really understand any of it? Never mind that the US Treasury Department still controls the $6 billion being held in a Qatari bank account and has the final say on all the transactions, which can only be spent on humanitarian purposes. Or that the funds, proceeds from oil sales, were held in escrow by the Trump Administration starting in 2019. Or that the US Navy seized Iranian weapons bound for the Yemeni Houthis last year and sent them to Ukraine, which should tell you that they would’ve done the same if the guns had been headed to Gaza instead. Or that there haven’t been any reports so far of drones being used against Israel, which you might have expected to see if the Iranians were supplying Hamas with them like they supply the Russians.
Never mind any of those facts when it just feels true that Biden has blood on his hands here.