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Steven Cook, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, said Biden had miscalculated with his early unstinting support for Israel.
Biden underestimated how Israel would "frame the conflict in terms of an existential struggle, which means he has actually limited influence over them."
Cook said that while Biden has come under fire from the left, he is beginning to face criticism from Israel supporters who believe he is tilting too far to the Palestinians.
"It's really a lose-lose situation for the president. It'll have to be entirely up to him and his political people to decide which constituency he wants to upset more."
"I don't know exactly what the president meant, but if he meant by that that I'm pursuing private policies against the majority, the wish of the majority of Israelis, and that this is hurting the interests of Israel, then he's wrong on both counts."Netanyahu said he thinks the majority of Israelis supports the operation in Gaza to destroy what's remaining of Hamas — the U.S.-designated terrorist organization that governs the Gaza Strip. Hamas killed 1,200 Israelis in the Oct. 7 massacre and took about 250 hostages.
"These are not my private policies only. They're policies supported by the overwhelming majority of the Israelis. They support the action that we're taking to destroy the remaining terrorist battalions of Hamas.
"The majority of Israelis understand that if we don't do this, what we'll have is a repetition of the October 7th massacre, which is bad for Israel, bad for the Palestinians, bad for the future of peace in the Middle East."
Comment: It is a sign of the times, when a major religious leader is being chastised for calling for peace negotiations.
The conflict will not end as long as the West continues to push for a fight to the last Ukrainian. The concessions the West will make at the end will be enormous and likely ensure a diminished role in world affairs for Europe for the rest of the century.