Israel Hamas War, West Bank, Etc. | Hostilities resume

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These are the types of admissions they wouldn’t make under the Biden Administration but feel free to make now because they won’t impact Trump’s support or create political pressure within his own party to pressure Bibi’s war cabinet in any way.

I think Biden did the right thing in coming to Israel’s aid after October 7 but I said at the time that he had to know that Bibi was an unreliable partner (and obviously he did know that). I thought the Biden Administration handled things pretty deftly for the first 6 plus months after the attack by Hamas — including putting Bibi on his back foot politically as Biden demonstrated how to make human contact with shell-shocked Israelis.

I’m not sure if Biden’s cognitive decline or his deeply rooted dedication to Israel blinded his later policy decisions (or both) — there became no good options as Hamas refused to give up the hostages and the IDF clearly had a different agenda. The Biden Administration sometimes tried and mostly failed at restraining Israel and the IDF as things ground on, though at least got a ceasefire for a time.

Now there are no restraints at all but I’m not entirely sure how much difference that is making in terms of outcomes for the average Palestinian.
 
nycfan said:
I’m not sure if Biden’s cognitive decline or his deeply rooted dedication to Israel blinded his later policy decisions (or both) — there became no good options as Hamas refused to give up the hostages and the IDF clearly had a different agenda. The Biden Administration sometimes tried and mostly failed at restraining Israel and the IDF as things ground on, though at least got a ceasefire for a time.
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What happened is that it became election year.

No American politician can afford to be seen as favoring a Muslim terrorist group over Israel. The reality doesn't matter -- the appearance is deadly. No American politician with national ambitions can be seen as favoring the interests of brown foreigners over white foreigners. And it's especially problematic because there have been so many Arab/Muslim bad guys in that conflict that ordinary Americans really can't keep up. They will see, "Biden is on the side of terrorists" and the election would have been over.

I don't think any Dem president of our lifetime would have acted differently than Biden did in this regard. Pub presidents would have been pulling the opposite way of course.
 
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