The president wants to restore the status quo, while Netanyahu wants to win.
Mr. Biden’s legacy: a foreign policy that projects American weakness. This weakness dates from the earliest days of the administration.
When Joe Biden became president, the Middle East was calm. Now it is in the midst of a multifront war.
The equivocation of Biden, Harris and other leaders should cause us all to feel a degree of shame.
As a columnist in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz argued this week, humiliation may be ‘the single most under-appreciated force in international relations’. So will Iran hit back hard, even if it means a wider war?
Over the course of 19 days, U.S. officials raced to contain escalating tensions between Israel and Iran
The Biden administration immediately leapt into action by issuing a strongly worded statement, while simultaneously proclaiming that it wanted to avoid escalation. Which, of course, is precisely the wrong thing to do when faced with aggression from a smaller, hostile adversary.
The senior fellow reflected on Trump’s killing of Iranian military officer Qasem Soleimani, stating that Trump’s actions had drastically helped in avoiding any point of war with Iran.
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