Saf Hashmat

Rest assured, if any other country had launched an attack on the US or Israel that killed 11 (inc children), with 4000 injured - 400 critically - we would call it both a terrorist attack AND a declaration of war. Now, we do neither. Yet again, we are seeing the abysmal failure of the Biden administration's bear hug strategy with Israel. The idea that the best way to influence Israel is to support it to the tilt, never criticize it publicly, and defend and protect it at the UN. This approach, Biden told us, would provide the US with the leverage to reign in Israel and prevent it from starting a regional war. The strategy is absurd - and perhaps more importantly, dangerous to US national interest. It certainly has not restrained Israel - we saw that again today with the attack in Lebanon despite messages from the White House to Israel that it should not start war with Lebanon. In fact, it has done the opposite: The more Biden has armed Israel, defended Israel, made excuses for Israel when it has killed Americans, vetoed resolutions at the UN, and accused American critics of Israel's genocide of being "anti-semitic," the more dismissive of US wishes Israel has become. And like clockwork, after Israel has attacked Lebanon (or any other country in the region), Biden will launch an extensive campaign to stop the attacked entities from retaliating - while doing nothing to truly prevent Israel from escalating in the first place. And much of the mainstream media will praise Biden for "seeking to prevent a regional war" without asking the obvious question: Perhaps it is Biden's misguided strategy that has kept us on the brink of a regional war for months now?