I was dreading the day that this might happen, but I suppose it was probably inevitable. After holding the line for 100 days, it appears that Joe Biden has succumbed to pressure from within his own party and started to walk away from our stalwart ally Israel. The statement from the White House yesterday wasn’t a total abandonment of Israel (at least not yet) but it was clearly a call for Bibi Netanyahu to change course and back off in his battle to eliminate Hamas. Biden’s spokesperson said that the 100-day mark of the war is “the right time” for Israel to “scale back” the offensive in the Gaza Strip. Perhaps ironically, the statement was issued just as Israel was not only pressing the offensive in Gaza but sending warplanes to strike Hezbollah targets in Lebanon where a missile strike was launched yesterday that killed two Israeli citizens. (AP)
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