Netanyahu’s split with Biden and the Democrats was years in the making
The Israeli leader’s longtime strategy of 🔸aligning with the GOP 🔸has helped shatter the American consensus behind Israel
Over the past 16 years, Netanyahu has departed sharply from his predecessors’ studious bipartisanship to embrace Republicans and disdain Democrats,
an attitude increasingly mirrored in each party’s approach to Israel.
The war in Gaza has vastly accelerated the shift,
as the once-broad support from Americans for Israel is shattering along partisan and generational lines.
The divide, playing out in angry protests and Democratic debates, marks a fundamental shift in U.S. politics.
“I don’t think there’s any other way to say it:
Netanyahu has been an absolute disaster for Israel’s support around the world,” said Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.).
“Here in the United States, Netanyahu made a reckless decision to integrate himself with the Republican Party,
taking very clear sides in U.S. politics, and it has come with serious consequences.”
Netanyahu is not solely responsible for the shift.
Israel has moved steadily to the right and the Democratic Party to the left in recent years,
while memories of the Holocaust, which long undergirded Americans’ sympathy for Israel,
have increasingly faded into the past.
But Netanyahu has led the change with a strategy of aligning himself with the American right, former aides say
— a decision that underlies his growing #rift with Joe Biden
Biden personifies the traditional Democratic affection for Israel.
The stakes for Israel could hardly be greater, as leaders on all sides agree that American military and diplomatic support is critical to the viability of the Jewish state as it faces powerful neighbors and a growing number of diplomatic challenges.
The United States is by far Israel’s biggest backer.
Murphy, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he has personally warned Netanyahu several times over the past 10 years about the risks of aligning himself so closely with Republicans.
The prime minister, he said, “has never wanted to listen.”
So, I was diagnosing a weird webcam issue for days and days. I've been using a Oculus Rift Sensor for head tracking for a while now and it suddenly stopped working. It's basically just a USB webcam. I tried several different kernel versions and even some from last year with no luck. I dug into the code of the uvcvideo driver, I tried setting quirks, nothing helped. I was obsessed with this issue.
Long story short: I disconnected my computer's front panel and everything worked.
The front panel must be faulty which must've tripped the USB controller in such a particular way that it kept working fine but was unable to recognise newly plugged devices and sent garbage to the kernel.
What the actual heck. USB is so weird. Do you have any USB stories like this?
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I did just build a "new" PC (new case/RAM/heat sink, used CPU/mobo/GPU/storage) so I have been checking in with my #MMOs, #LotRO#WoW#Rift and #FallenEarthClassic