Enabled by weak and incompetent US and UK foreign policy, Benjamin Netanyahu is using war for his political survival
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in Tel Aviv during a meeting in October 2023 with U.S. president Joe Biden to discuss the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas.Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks in Tel Aviv during a meeting in October 2023 with U.S. president Joe Biden to discuss the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas.of the Francis Scott Key bridge in Baltimore was shocking.
Perceptions of permanent, lawless rupture are especially strong in the Middle East following the 7 October attacks and the Israel-Hamas war. The scale of the atrocities is alarming. So, too, is the impunity with which they have been met.. President Joe Biden and Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, barely speak. Biden demands more aid deliveries, a stop to threats of assault on Rafah, where 1.4 million Palestinians cower in fear and hunger, and postwar talks on a two-state solution.
The US volte-face at the UN, when it finally allowed a Gaza ceasefire resolution to pass, was encouraging, up to a point. Yet neither the US nor the UK has taken steps to enforce it. Permanent security council members Russia and China prefer grandstanding to pursuing peace and justice. The Arab states are a
“Senior US officials complain they don’t understand what Netanyahu wants. But is quite clear. Political survival is his top priority. And if continuing the war, even amid growing claims that Israel is violating the laws of war, is what will keep him in office, he’s completely prepared to do so.
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