These wars will demolish Joe Biden’s claim to have restored America’s reputation as the guarantor of world peace
US voters will be seeing the stumbling figure of Biden on their screens presiding feebly over an escalating crisis which is largely of his own making
Similar devastation is now being visited on the Lebanese as the Israeli operation there expands northwards with the same complete disregard for civilian casualties as in Gaza and the occupied West Bank. In the latter, home to three million Palestinians, 18 people sitting in a café in a refugee camp in the city of Tulkarm were killed by an Israeli air strike on Thursday. The IDF claimed that it had killed the local head of Hamas as well as “other significant terrorists”.
are merely a smokescreen so that the US can pretend publicly to be seeking to end to these wars, while in practice approving and supporting them.There certainly are powerful people in Washington who agree with this cynical realpolitik. President Barack Obama derided what he called “the Washington playbook”, by which he meant the view of much of the US foreign policy establishment that most problems can be dealt with by military force.
Earlier in the week, he was asked about Israeli air strikes on Yemen, to which he replied that he was in favour of “collective bargaining”, mistakenly believing that he was being asked about strikes as a form of industrial action. All wars are information wars – none more so than the conflicts raging in Gaza and Lebanon, with sideshows in Syria and Yemen. Pundits reflect despairingly that truth is “the first casualty of the war”, but this overused saying is a little misleading.
Israel has always put great efforts into the information wars in previous conflicts, but in one significant respect the work of the war propagandist has become more difficult. The universal availability of phone cameras means that it is no longer possible to pretend that airstrikes and artillery fire are hitting only military targets and that those that die are all “terrorists”, as happened in the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982.
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