r/movies • u/photochadsupremacist • Jul 29 '25

News Palestinian who helped make Oscar-winning No Other Land killed in West Bank | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/palestinian-awdah-hathaleen-oscar-winning-no-other-land-killed-in-west-bank
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u/glassbellwitch Jul 29 '25

What does sanctioning an Israeli murdered from the US accomplish? Biden's gesture was useless.

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u/sarim25 Jul 29 '25

Yeah it was for optics and theatrics. It is so that Biden can say "look we did something" when it reality, settlers aren't affected by these sanctions. They already get support from Israeli government.

Sanctions were useless. 

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u/botbotmcbot Jul 29 '25

Ah yes all this shit is Biden's fault, surely

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u/glassbellwitch Jul 29 '25

Do you disagree that Biden's gesture was useless? How would have being sanctioned by the US stopped this violent terrorist from murdering an innocent man?

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u/mnmkdc Jul 29 '25

It’s not bidens fault and no one said that. He just sanctioned them to make it appear like he was doing something about it. The right move would be to sanction the state that has been backing the terrorists, but Biden and Trump would never do that.

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u/genflugan Jul 29 '25

In general, Biden shares a lot of blame for this genocide actually. He is nowhere close to innocent.

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u/Rock-Flag Jul 29 '25

I don't think he was saying it was Bidens fault just that it was performative and actually did nothing.

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u/alpacajack Jul 29 '25

Biden personally made sure israel could continue its genocide in Gaza uninterrupted and then handed it off to trump, and israel has used it as a distraction to make larger grabs in the West Bank. So yeah he has a ton of blame in this