Israel’s prime minister stands in the way of the two-state solution that is the US president’s goal.
Lawyers are taught never to ask a witness a question to which they do not know the answer. That logic also applies to wartime alliances.
The tool Biden wields is influence. Everything about Netanyahu suggests that behind-the-scenes suasion is not a method that works. Biden’s staff say his approach is working even though it will be hard to convince the world of that. But their rationale is deteriorating. The case for a sterner Biden approach is made by Netanyahu nearly every day. Last week, Netanyahu cited the prophecies of Isaiah in defence of the coming war.
The alternatives – a binational secular state, or the status quo – can respectively be dismissed as fantasy and unacceptable. Yet Netanyahu’s life work has been about making the two-state solution impossible. By some measure, Netanyahu is Israel’s worst leader. But Biden does not have the luxury of waiting for history’s verdict. Israel’s military plan to remove Hamas has to be linked to the political settlement that will come afterwards. Netanyahu stands in the way of Biden’s two-state goal.
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