Joe Biden's Israel-Hamas conflict stance makes it 'very hard' for Pennsylvania Democrats to support him

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA: Some Democratic Party supporters in Pennsylvania, a crucial battleground state, are hesitant to support President Joe Biden in November because of his stance on the Israel-Hamas conflict.

"I have a very hard time imagining myself being able to pull that lever for him seeing what [Biden] has endorsed and allowed to happen," Abe Taleb, who lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, told The Wall Street Journal, referring to Gaza. "It’d be very hard to say yes, because voting is still a tacit endorsement of that individual."

Leftists slam Joe Biden for supporting Israel 

According to the outlet, if the President hadn't backed Israel, the Taleb family's support for him would not be in doubt. The leftists have reacted negatively to his backing of Israel as a national anti-Israel movement has emerged.

Joe Biden's actions are difficult to overlook, according to a Democrat supporter

"Witnessing the ongoing suffering of children and fellow parents makes it even more difficult for us to simply overlook the administration’s actions here," Jane Olszewski, 36, a Democratic voter in Pennsylvania, told the outlet. 

Olszewski also refuted that by not supporting Biden for president, she was supporting former President Donald Trump, the presumed Republican nominee.

"The idea that Democrats are the only bulwark against authoritarianism and fascism is day-by-day proven less legitimate by Biden and his administration ignoring clear evidence of Israel’s war crimes and their refusal to end their unconditional support and take meaningful action to stop Israel," she said. 

Married couple Olszewski and Taleb told the journal that arguments over their views have happened in both of their families. "I find it hard to believe in the face of, like, 15,000 dead kids, that there is still some greater plan at work. If there were, it has failed," Olszewski said of Biden.

Joe Biden's statements on Gaza are found repulsive by his supporters

"I used to think a lot of Biden, because he’s a statesman. He’s been around," Lutfi Taleb, Abe's father, told the Journal. "But the words that I heard from this man in the last six months made me go 180." Biden's remarks on Gaza, in his opinion, were repetitious.

"[Biden] can’t come and tell me, ‘I’m not that great, but the other person that’s running for president is worse,'" Lutfi said. "If it’s gonna take four bad years of somebody else for [Democrats] to wake up and change course, then so be it."

Voters in Georgia say they wouldn't vote for Joe Biden or Donald Trump

A group of Georgia voters, citing the President's handling of the war, informed CNN in April that they would not be voting for either Biden or Trump. "If there is no substantive policy change, when it comes to the genocide in Gaza, then there's not really a discussion for me," one young man in the group said.

"I think what Biden has done in aiding and abetting genocide is just something I cannot stand for," another woman added.

Joe Biden pressed Israel and Hamas to agree to a three-phase agreement

Biden is pressing Israel and Hamas to reach a three-phase agreement that could result in the immediate release of dozens of Israeli hostages, the release of Palestinian prisoners, and possibly even the end of the nearly eight-month-long Gaza conflict, despite opposition from senior Israeli officials.

A sizeable portion of Biden's political base, demoralized by his handling of the conflict, may be convinced by his dramatic turnabout in the tumultuous reelection campaign that he is contributing to the end of the war, which has claimed more than 36,000 Palestinian lives and left hundreds of thousands struggling to meet their basic needs.

On Monday, June 3, White House representatives stated that Biden's purpose was to put Hamas on the spot, which is why he decided to make public what he describes as an Israeli proposal just one day after it was given to Hamas. The decision to let the Israelis speak for themselves regarding hostage negotiations deviated from the US administration's stance throughout the conflict.

What did White House national security spokesman John Kirby say?

“The president felt that where we are in this war, where we are in the negotiations to get the hostages out, that it was time for a different approach and a time to make the proposal public, to try to energize the process here and catalyze a different outcome,” White House national security spokesman John Kirby said, per Associated Press. 

Shortly after Biden presented the plan, which calls for a cease-fire and a gradual withdrawal of Israeli forces from Gaza in exchange for Hamas freeing all of its hostages, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office declared it would keep fighting until Hamas was destroyed.

Internet skeptical about Joe Biden's chances to become the US president again

Netizens doubt Biden's chances to get re-elected in the upcoming November election.

One X user tweeted, "How can anyone trust in Biden…or even Obama for that matter!" Another wrote, "These people only worry about themselves. I cannot wait for Armageddon, yeah, I said that."

"We love Trump," echoed one.

"Yeah, it's a tough spot for them. Supporting Biden might not sit well with everyone given the situation in Gaza," one user opined and another said, "These Dems are stuck between their party loyalty and their constituents' outrage over Gaza. It's a tough spot to be in, but maybe they should just own up to their conflicting values instead of trying to straddle the fence." 

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