If Israel ignores the American demand for a ceasefire, the White House must halt all arms shipments, says Bloomberg Opinion's Andreas Kluth.
If Israel ignores the American demand for a ceasefire, the White House must halt all arms shipments, says Bloomberg Opinion's Andreas Kluth.
Why?, wonders Sheline, who has a PhD on political Islam and helped write human-rights reports on the Middle East before resigning. Security Council resolutions are meant to be binding, after all; that’s the whole point. By now, evidence of Israeli violations on both counts seems overwhelming - from blanket rather than precision bombing to blocking aid and causing starvation. Just this week, Israel struck well-marked trucks in anSheline represents a larger shift in US public opinion. Whereas about half of Americans still approved of Israel’s Gazan campaign in November, when the shock of Oct 7 was fresh and the worst of Israel’s bombing yet to come, a majority now disapproves.
Another tragedy, Sheline told me, is that Biden was supposed to be the good guy, and the US the good country. A Biden America, unlike the alternative version peddled by Donald Trump, was meant to stand up for democracy, law and human rights at home as abroad. That claim is looking more hollow by the day, and the US less credible and more hypocritical abroad. The conflict in the Middle East is threatening to take hostage Biden’s entire foreign policy .
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