Why Israel’s Allies Are Pretending To
Be Impatient
Posted By: Dreadnought, 12/20/2023 12:29:22 AM
Foreign policy is still subject to domestic politics, no matter how far away the theater of battle is. That is a pretty reliable rule, and it explains much of what people are finding inexplicable: the insistence that the Biden administration is giving Israel “tough love” in private conversations while publicly supporting the IDF’s mission in Gaza. “Netanyahu’s war bluster exposes growing rift with Biden,” reports The Hill, putting a slightly more dramatic gloss on a version of the same story you can read today in the New York Times, Washington Post, and elsewhere. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s trip to Israel yesterday, reports the Times, “was part of a full-court press
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