President Joe Biden‘s shock announcement that he would condition U.S. military support of Israel on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s decision to invade the Gazan city of Rafah to end Hamas has been criticized by pro-Israel Democrats and conservatives.
But many pro-Palestinian Democrats are also skeptical of Biden’s words and actions.
The longer the war between Israel and Hamas lasts, the more the support of Israel that Biden demonstrated immediately after Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attacks gets tested as he seeks to keep pro-Palestinian stakeholders on his side.
“The moment Biden decided he would oppose Israel destroying Hamas and winning the war, he started a countdown to this moment,” Foundation for Defense of Democracies senior adviser Richard Goldberg, a onetime national security aide to former President Donald Trump,
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