It appears that the current pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas will continue for at least another two days. Hamas’s plan to stretch out the release of hostages to gain time for the left to pressure Biden to get Israel to end the war has, so far, not worked. Biden has remained steadfast in his support for the Jewish state.
Until now.
Feeling the heat from his own party’s left wing as well as the international community, Biden is slowly pulling back from his previous unqualified support for Israel and is now looking to qualify that support and perhaps even condition military aid on Israel giving in to American demands that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exercise restraint in trying to destroy Hama.
“You cannot have the sort of scale of displacement that took place in the north replicated in the south,” a senior administration official said on a call with reporters. “It can’t happen, which means that the manner of the campaign has to be extremely carefully thought through to minimize this consequence of further, significant displacement.”
The administration’s concern is that by leveling the Gaza Strip, North, and South, “it would cause a crisis beyond the ability of any…
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