Joe Biden hoped the successful defence against Iran’s attack on Israel could give the major actors enough to claim victory and walk away. But Israel does not work that way.
| It was so close. Had just one missile or drone got through and killed a lot of Israelis, US officials feared, the region could have gone up in flames.
It may not work out that way, however. Rather than pocketing the win, such as it was, Israeli officials said this week they would respond – without saying when or exactly how – and Biden’s advisers were bracing to see what that might entail. Some hawkish analysts said that Biden was thinking about it all wrong. His effort to avoid escalation may trigger one instead, they argued, because Iran and other enemies have been emboldened by increasingly public disagreements between Washington and Jerusalem over Israel’s conduct of the war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
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