Progressive commentator Mehdi Hassan slammed President Biden for not doing more to end Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza, saying the president could end the war with a phone call. I insisted that I could.
“Joe Biden has the power to pick up the phone and end this war. He can call the Israeli prime minister and say, ‘We’re cutting you off.’ We cut off aid, we cut off armaments. ” Israelis themselves, Israeli generals say, “We can’t have this war without America.” He’s not doing that,” Hasan said during his recent appearance on CNN.
The former MSNBC anchor pointed out that Biden has “correctly said in recent years that Donald Trump poses an existential threat to our democracy.”
“The idea that he would risk not only his presidency, but the future of American democracy for Benjamin Netanyahu, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich, and the rest of Israel’s fascists… It’s strange and inexplicable,” he added. .
Hassan’s comment was the first highlighted By intermediaries.
Mr. Biden has come under increasing pressure from the American left to negotiate a ceasefire in the bloody Middle East conflict that has left tens of thousands of Palestinians dead since October.
Hasan, one of the most prominent figures in the media advocating for a ceasefire in Gaza, announced earlier this year that he was leaving MSNBC after the network canceled his Sunday night opinion show.
Hasan launched his own media company this week, becoming the latest of a number of former cable news anchors and pundits to start one.
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