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The US abstention in the UN Security Council, contrary to Netanyahu’s plan, marks an important turn in Biden’s policy.
Hamas began a war against Israel on October 7 with a massacre that left more than 1,200 people dead and another 257 kidnapped. Israel’s response was immediate and brutal. Netanyahu He promised total victory, which would be the annihilation of Hamas, and the result is visible to the world: Gaza is an accumulation of rubble and dead, and whoever should be seen as a victim ends up being seen by half the world as a villain.
Netanyahu has been losing allies over the months. First it was a few Europeans who raised their voices. Then those who lowered the tone of their defenses joined in. The enormous internal and external pressure has put us in a compromised position in these six months. Biden. How to position yourself as president of the United States in this war? How to remain loyal to the current Government of Israel without losing the support of thousands or millions of voters months before the elections against Trump?
APPROACHES | Biden teaches Netanyahu the limits of their friendship
Many have forgotten what Biden said on his first trip to Israel after the Hamas attack. It was very important. “I understand your anger,” he told a traumatized people. “But don’t let yourselves be consumed by it.” It was of little use. Netanyahu executed his idea. And, six months later, the United States seems to be losing patience. With his country’s abstention, Biden has allowed a UN Security Council resolution to go forward for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and the immediate release of all Hamas hostages.
It is an extraordinary change in the United States’ position, no matter how much the Biden Administration tries to publicly downplay the implications. This action sends a very clear message and is in line, for example, with the latest statements by the Democratic leader of the Senate, Chuck Summerwhich pointed to Netanyahu as “an obstacle to peace.”
So it’s only natural that we all wonder what’s next. And especially if all this will have any effect on Netanyahu. Because at the moment we do not know if it will obey the binding resolution of the UN Security Council. But we do know his first reaction: interrupt a scheduled meeting between representatives of the American and Israeli governments to address the next steps of the war.
Biden taught Netanyahu the limits of their friendship. But Netanyahu showed them before. And there are those who are malicious, as the philosopher told us Susan Neiman in an interview, that the Israeli prime minister is campaigning hard for Trump.
Now the situation is likely to worsen between Washington and Tel Aviv. And with all this tension, we leave some questions pending. There goes one of them. If Netanyahu decides to ignore this resolution, as so many suspect, how will Biden respond? Will he bite the bullet or cut off, as so many voters ask him, the supply of weapons to Netanyahu?
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