If Israel doesn’t help Gaza’s civilians, Biden has to stop supplying weapons – Daivd Ignatius/WaPost

“Administration officials speak of U.S. policy failures with anguish and shame.”

“The burden of civilian suffering in the year-long Gaza conflict is intolerable. Israeli defense leaders told the Biden administration several months ago that they had achieved their major military goals there. But the war continues, in part because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no clear plans for a ‘day after’ transition.”

The writer of this column calls for Biden to do the right thing. But he also repeats the false premise that the Netanyahu government lacks a clear plan. Its plan is clear: kill or displace as many Palestinians and take as much of their land in Gaza and the West Bank as politically and militarily feasible:

Trump win means ‘time has come’ to annex parts of West Bank, Israeli minister says – msn/WaPost

“Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich welcomed President-elect Donald Trump’s electoral victory Monday, saying that ‘the time has come’ to extend full Israeli sovereignty over the occupied West Bank…”

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