The US president must lend Israel support as he seeks its restraint in Gaza. But the long-term goal has to be a durable peace for Israeli and Palestinian alike.
, planned for Wednesday, will correctly underscore Israel’s right to defend its people from mass slaughter. He will urge Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to seek to avoid needless casualties as Israeli ground forces prepare to enter teeming civilian-populated Gaza in pursuit of Hamas’ terror networks.
Joe Biden’s presence in Israel, Jordan and Egypt this week will be a further warning to Iran not to launch new fronts against Israel in Lebanon or Syria.inflicted on Israeli civilians on October 7 could only have been designed to provoke maximum Israeli retribution on Gazan civilians for the benefit of Hamas propaganda output.
But a military plan is not a political strategy that shows how this new battle ends without generating the next version of Hamas. A long-term settlement to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians will for now seem fanciful. The most that can be hoped for in the coming days is that Israel, a democratic society still ruled by law, does its utmost to minimise civilian casualties and show how different it is to the nihilistic violence of Hamas.
But out of this pit of violence and despair, a turning point for peace must emerge that offers security for both peoples. There are enough powerful players to press for another peace effort, in the US, among other Middle Eastern nations, in Europe, and in Beijing and other Asian capitals, who must be alarmed at these fresh Middle Eastern eruptions. There will be minimum conditions for both sides.
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