Less than 2 percent of Americans regard the conflict in Gaza as their most important issue. Social media wildly distorts the perceived influence of a tiny minority of people. There are just a few thousand pro-Palestinian protesters. The other 300 million Americans have other concerns and are broadly sympathetic to Israel.

I support a two state solution and the rights of Palestinians not to get murdered en masse.

However, Biden is hemmed in on the Gaza War question because the GOP is rabidly anti-Muslim and anti-Arab, and therefore, when it suits them, pro-Israel (they're rabidly anti-Semites at other times). And some progressives are repulsed by all the dollars and US weapons being used to kill Gazans, sent to Israel by the US.

This is a politcal hot potato for Biden's campaign. His best bet is redirection to abortion, his record in infrastructure and healthcare, his many reforms, etc.

Anonymous wrote:Maybe Biden realizes that a center-right country should not be governed by a leftist president for four out of five elections. Things fall apart.

How many times has the right wing president won the popular vote? Once in fives time and that was 20 years ago. This country is not center right. The political system has been constructed to weigh urban and suburban voters as less vs urban voters. It takes 20 states to equal California’s population yet those 20 states have 40 senators while California has 2.

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Anonymous wrote:Is this the real 5D chess? Is he THAT out of touch? He can’t win the electoral college without the youth vote yet… here we are. He has put loyalty to Israel over everything.
Is no one advising him?!
As a woman I can’t believe this is how my rights end in America. A senile stubborn old man that doesnt get the memo. I’m furious

This is probably a troll post, but perhaps you haven't noticed that not everyone is pro-palestinian. There are a lot of pro-Israel people in this country and many of them are democrats. If Biden did whatever it is you want him to do, then those people would be saying he's out of touch. The president is never going to do everything you want. That's not the way the world works. If this is your top issue and you think that Trump's policy on the conflict (if you can even figure out what it is) is closer to yours, you should go ahead and vote for him.

Most of the people in this country care about their money and their children’s lives. Israel endangers both. The only people that care about Israel is the corrupt power class.

Most people care about whether they are better off now than 4 years ago. I think the answer is a resounding "no."

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Anonymous wrote:Is this the real 5D chess? Is he THAT out of touch? He can’t win the electoral college without the youth vote yet… here we are. He has put loyalty to Israel over everything.
Is no one advising him?!
As a woman I can’t believe this is how my rights end in America. A senile stubborn old man that doesnt get the memo. I’m furious

This is probably a troll post, but perhaps you haven't noticed that not everyone is pro-palestinian. There are a lot of pro-Israel people in this country and many of them are democrats. If Biden did whatever it is you want him to do, then those people would be saying he's out of touch. The president is never going to do everything you want. That's not the way the world works. If this is your top issue and you think that Trump's policy on the conflict (if you can even figure out what it is) is closer to yours, you should go ahead and vote for him.

Most of the people in this country care about their money and their children’s lives. Israel endangers both. The only people that care about Israel is the corrupt power class.

Anonymous wrote:Is this the real 5D chess? Is he THAT out of touch? He can’t win the electoral college without the youth vote yet… here we are. He has put loyalty to Israel over everything.
Is no one advising him?!
As a woman I can’t believe this is how my rights end in America. A senile stubborn old man that doesnt get the memo. I’m furious

I might agree with you, but the tell is the "senile stubborn old man" comment. That's ridic and not what is going on here.

Anonymous wrote:Is this the real 5D chess? Is he THAT out of touch? He can’t win the electoral college without the youth vote yet… here we are. He has put loyalty to Israel over everything.
Is no one advising him?!
As a woman I can’t believe this is how my rights end in America. A senile stubborn old man that doesnt get the memo. I’m furious

You're probably very young.

I remember in 1972 - everyone I knew on campus was against the war and all of us we for George McGovern.
Come November 1972 we got a huge wake up call. Nixon won every single state except Massachusetts and DC.
This pro-Palestine stuff might be marginally important in Michigan, bit that's about it. And November is still a long way away.

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Anonymous wrote:Is this the real 5D chess? Is he THAT out of touch? He can’t win the electoral college without the youth vote yet… here we are. He has put loyalty to Israel over everything.
Is no one advising him?!
As a woman I can’t believe this is how my rights end in America. A senile stubborn old man that doesnt get the memo. I’m furious

He is going to lose because he has alienated the moderate and independent voters, not so much because whiny college students are having a temper tantrum.

While he needs to come out and support everyone’s first amendment rights of protest, he really needs to distance himself from the voices specific to the campus activists. He will lose way more voters in the middle if the republicans can associate him with their words and actions than he will progressive voters that support them.

Anonymous wrote:Is this the real 5D chess? Is he THAT out of touch? He can’t win the electoral college without the youth vote yet… here we are. He has put loyalty to Israel over everything.
Is no one advising him?!
As a woman I can’t believe this is how my rights end in America. A senile stubborn old man that doesnt get the memo. I’m furious

This is probably a troll post, but perhaps you haven't noticed that not everyone is pro-palestinian. There are a lot of pro-Israel people in this country and many of them are democrats. If Biden did whatever it is you want him to do, then those people would be saying he's out of touch. The president is never going to do everything you want. That's not the way the world works. If this is your top issue and you think that Trump's policy on the conflict (if you can even figure out what it is) is closer to yours, you should go ahead and vote for him.

Anonymous wrote:Is this the real 5D chess? Is he THAT out of touch? He can’t win the electoral college without the youth vote yet… here we are. He has put loyalty to Israel over everything.
Is no one advising him?!
As a woman I can’t believe this is how my rights end in America. A senile stubborn old man that doesnt get the memo. I’m furious

it
net/net I don't think this hurts him at all. Maybe it could be important in Michigan, and that's about all

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe Biden realizes that a center-right country should not be governed by a leftist president for four out of five elections. Things fall apart.

There is nothing left about Biden or his cabinet.

Also, there’s nothing left in Biden’s brain, but that’s an entirely different observation.

Anonymous wrote:Maybe Biden realizes that a center-right country should not be governed by a leftist president for four out of five elections. Things fall apart.

The democratic candidate wins by millions more votes every election cycle.
We are not a center right country.

Anonymous wrote:Maybe Biden realizes that a center-right country should not be governed by a leftist president for four out of five elections. Things fall apart.

There is nothing left about Biden or his cabinet.

Maybe Biden realizes that a center-right country should not be governed by a leftist president for four out of five elections. Things fall apart.

Anonymous wrote:He isn’t pandering to the vocal minority. The US supports democracy abroad. Palestinians can vote and have representation in government. Hamas is a terrorist organization.

Are you one of his delusional advisers like Sullivan, or the intern?

Maybe you can work on that “democracy abroad” in Saudi Arabia and get back to us.