The President is right to tell Israelis they must not copy America’s post-9/11 mistakes driven by “all-consuming rage” that could ignite the region’s wider conflicts again.
Joe Biden’s visit to a wartime Tel Aviv this week must be one of the most striking that a US president has ever made. In 1973, the last time Israel was under such direct threat, Henry Kissinger was the tireless emissary of Washington. President Biden, who takes pride in his personal diplomatic skills, has this time gone to Israel himself and staked his own authority on both keeping Israel secure and making sure it also acts with restraint.
Joe Biden has staked his own authority on both keeping Israel secure and making sure it also acts with restraint.This must be clear, and America should be supported in doing this. But Mr Biden’s presence underscored that support only comes with assurances from Israel that it will avoid needless casualties when it moves on Hamas, and that ways must be found to relieve suffering among Palestinian civilians.
Destroying Hamas with its arsenals and tunnel networks without mass casualties for Gazans who live among them will be hard, even for Israeli forces who have long trained for such a fight. The US aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean are there to deter, and regional experts believe it unlikely that Iran will risk the network of paramilitaries and proxies that it has built up in an all-out confrontation with Israel in Lebanon or Syria. But an Israeli ground assault on Hamas will be a direct strike on that network, which they cannot give up easily. Iran’s proxies might try to launch more terror on Jewish targets elsewhere instead.
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