When it's all determined by domestic politics - as Mr Williams' article suggests - the USA has lost its world leadership. The UNSC vote on 8 December left it isolated and having to use its veto. The UNGA then met on 12/12 and passed a demand for an immediate ceasefire with a massive majority of 153 in favour, just 10 against, and 23 abstentions.
The French President has burnt his bridges with Israel and USA, and one of London's biggest ever marches was held last month in solidarity with Palestine (the biggest ever, by the way, was against the the US Iraq War). Next year's General Election may well see His Majesty's Government launch BDS, arms embargoes and other anti-Israel policies.
Worldwide, social media has come into play in a way that it couldn't in 2008-9 Operation Cast Lead: Israel really has lost the battle, and maybe even the war too, and its implications are severely damaging the West as a whole.
Biden is fiddling in domestic politics while Gaza, US leadership and the West's reputation burns. To contradict Mr Williams' assumption of Domestic Determination of foreign policy, Republicans are setting conditions for more aid for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, tied in with border security and how illegal Mexican immigrants are processed in a way that may well make Biden or the Democrat nominee lose the next election.
The poverty and myopia of thinking of the Biden Administration and the US Department of State is astounding, especially when you think Israel has nowhere to go, nor have the tiny Jewish voting population in the USA. Biden should have cut the Gordian Knot and forced Israel to abide by the law of war and to come up with an alternative plan other than pulverising Gaza in what looks to the world like genocide and ethnic cleansing. Now the USA and the West is left to rebuild Gaza at exorbitant cost, but I suspect hearts and minds will nevertheless have been lost forever.
When it's all determined by domestic politics - as Mr Williams' article suggests - the USA has lost its world leadership. The UNSC vote on 8 December left it isolated and having to use its veto. The UNGA then met on 12/12 and passed a demand for an immediate ceasefire with a massive majority of 153 in favour, just 10 against, and 23 abstentions.
The French President has burnt his bridges with Israel and USA, and one of London's biggest ever marches was held last month in solidarity with Palestine (the biggest ever, by the way, was against the the US Iraq War). Next year's General Election may well see His Majesty's Government launch BDS, arms embargoes and other anti-Israel policies.
Worldwide, social media has come into play in a way that it couldn't in 2008-9 Operation Cast Lead: Israel really has lost the battle, and maybe even the war too, and its implications are severely damaging the West as a whole.
Biden is fiddling in domestic politics while Gaza, US leadership and the West's reputation burns. To contradict Mr Williams' assumption of Domestic Determination of foreign policy, Republicans are setting conditions for more aid for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, tied in with border security and how illegal Mexican immigrants are processed in a way that may well make Biden or the Democrat nominee lose the next election.
The poverty and myopia of thinking of the Biden Administration and the US Department of State is astounding, especially when you think Israel has nowhere to go, nor have the tiny Jewish voting population in the USA. Biden should have cut the Gordian Knot and forced Israel to abide by the law of war and to come up with an alternative plan other than pulverising Gaza in what looks to the world like genocide and ethnic cleansing. Now the USA and the West is left to rebuild Gaza at exorbitant cost, but I suspect hearts and minds will nevertheless have been lost forever.
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Two-state solution will happen when the Easter Bunny comes and feeds carrots to the Unicorn.