Oh look - Biden has once again shown his resolve by staking out a position demanding that Israel show just the barest minimum of restraint.
And never mind that in the relatively unlikely event that Israel won’t even bother to meet that bare minimum, that’s okay, since he’ll abandon even that position.
It’s just so tedious and transparent. He doesn’t have the will or the courage to take a meaningful stand, but he has to create some illusion of demanding at least some restraint from Israel, so he draws a line in the sand that’s distant enough that they likely weren’t going to cross it anyway, and makes his stand there. And it’s doubly meaningless, since if they do happen to go so far as to cross it anyway, he’ll just let them, with no consequences.
Oh look - Biden has once again shown his resolve by staking out a position demanding that Israel show just the barest minimum of restraint.
And never mind that in the relatively unlikely event that Israel won’t even bother to meet that bare minimum, that’s okay, since he’ll abandon even that position.
Does this upset you?
It’s just so tedious and transparent. He doesn’t have the will or the courage to take a meaningful stand, but he has to create some illusion of demanding at least some restraint from Israel, so he draws a line in the sand that’s distant enough that they likely weren’t going to cross it anyway, and makes his stand there. And it’s doubly meaningless, since if they do happen to go so far as to cross it anyway, he’ll just let them, with no consequences.
It’s all a sham.