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Not nominating a UN ambassador who said Israel had a biblical right to it, for one thing.
Biden's "stop or I'll say stop again also here's more weapons" level of 'resistance' to Netanyahu sure wasn't anything to be real proud of, but I'll take that over enthusiastic encouragement any day. Trump also has unpaused some of the military shipments that Biden had paused, today, on day one. Sending even more weapons than Biden was one of his key priorities for the next few years, apparently.
Edit: Also, Biden sanctioned settlers in the West Bank, which never happened before, which Trump also undid on day one. Also, Biden resumed shipments to Palestinian aid organizations which Trump had stopped. Has Trump stopped those again? I don't know whether that rose to the level of a day-one priority, but I'm absolutely sure it is coming.
B-b-but, both sides. Genocide Joe.
I will never co-sign a genocide. That's why I'm voting for Cornel West. Don't thank me, I don't have time, I have another comment to write.
Gotta meet your quota
As it stands in terms of manifested actual political effects, not virtue signaling and token efforts, Trump managed to push for the ceasefire Biden was unwilling to apply pressure for.
We will see, how the politics of Trump look, when it comes to material on the ground effects, but Biden proudly stood by and gave more bombs while watching daily how women and children are murdered with them and millions of people have their everything destroyed.
So so far Trump did much more for Palestinian lifes than Biden. That is not a big achievement of Trump. It just shows that Biden indeed is genocide Joe, who chose every day to continue this, despite all it taking to end it being a phone call.
Also as Biden delivered weapons while Israel was murdering US aid workers he directly violated US laws.
You know they've still been shooting people in Gaza past Sunday, right?
An Israeli sniper just shot a kid. Yesterday or today I think. They also air-struck a refugee camp in the West Bank, which hasn't been happening recently.
I don't even know why I'm still here, having these conversations. This place is very weird. On most of Lemmy, it's kind of isolated spots of "yay Trump he fixed it, Israel's gonna be good now" from time to time, but mostly it just gets laughed out of the room. On !world@lemmy.world it's like a mob of it.
That is, unfortunately, just what happens when Israel accepts a ceasefire. It's definitely not good, but it's better than when the genocide was going full steam ahead.
The ceasefire doesn't cover the West Bank. Again not good, but this is how Israel does things and isn't an indication that the ceasefire is going to fail.
I didnt say Trump fixed it. I said that Biden put the bar so ridiciously low, that it was easy for Trump to step over it.
And while i hope that murder who sho the kid in Gaza will be punished for it in this world and the next, it is certainly a much smaller extend than what Israel was doing daily for the past year with full support from Biden.
So your answer to the question is "nothing"? And yes, the sum total of four settlers Biden sanction do qualify as "nothing".
I know. It never stops.
Not that it's the point, but here's a summary of the sanctions at one point. 11 individuals, 11 entities, I don't know what changed about it after that: https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-issues-new-batch-of-sanctions-targeting-west-bank-settlers-amid-rampant-violence/
He also paused some weapons shipments, he re-funded Palestinian aid organizations, he tried to get them food, yada yada yada I'll just repeat what I said about it before since you seem to have missed that part of it:
I would broadly agree with you that the sum total of what Biden did was infinitesimal. He was hitting a boulder with a rubber mallet. He was throwing water bottles at a house fire that he helped ignite. The difference is, Trump is showing up with gasoline, a whole truck full of it, and spraying it on and wants to burn five other houses in addition to this one. Biden at least wasn't doing that. That makes Trump way worse, even though Biden is bad. I don't know how that simple logical construction turns into this post-graduate equation that people can't fathom, or means that they claim I'm saying Biden wasn't abetting a genocide, but that's how I see it.
I eagerly await the strawman through which this fairly crystal clear explanation, in my view, gets turned into something else which it isn't.
I'm not gonna say this assumption is wrong, because we'll have to wait and see about that, but people who disagree with your position (including me) see what Biden was doing as nearly the worst way he could've handled the war in Gaza. Trump's rhetoric is definitely worse than Biden, but on the ground what he did in his first term and what he's doing now is what other US presidents were also doing، give or take symbolic actions like moving the US embassy. To borrow your analogy, the worst Trump could possibly do is put some lego bricks on the boulder and pretend he contributed to its structural stability. The whole thing boils down to: What can he do that Biden didn't already do?
Also note that I'm discounting any possible relation between Trump and the ceasefire; if we assume he did contribute to the ceasefire then he becomes objectively the better candidate for Palestine no matter what he does from this point, but let's not get into that.