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The war between Hamas and Israel has failed to enforce a “humanitarian pause” in Gaza, and the Biden administration has become increasingly isolated in its unconditional support for the Jewish state.
America’s stance toward Israel today “contributes to creating a public perception in the region that the United States is a biased and dishonest actor, at best failing to advance progress and, at worst, serving the country’s interests around the world.” This statement, accompanied by a call to demand this ceasefire in Gaza, the principle of which Washington currently rejects, is not the work of a rival power, a concerned ally or an international organization that bears witness to its embarrassment. The diagnosis comes from the heart of the reactor of American foreign policy: the State Department, where this internal memo published on Monday by the website Politico would be just one of several translations of the anger and disapproval expressed against the The Biden administration has violated the line it has followed in recent weeks in the Middle East, after years of neglecting the deep problems. And this domestic discontent – which began in mid-October with the resignation of a veteran diplomat who denounced a “blindness” in rushing to the aid of the Israeli response without questioning “how many Palestinian children must die in this process” – is not that case as a domestic echo of the White House’s growing isolation amid concerns and anger growing both in the United States, particularly within the Democratic electorate, and outside, among its partners in the Arab and global South.
Unsustainable balance
A growing loneliness that crystallized