2023-11-06 01:30:07
Analyse. Two tragedies intertwine. The first is that of Israel, placed in the obligation to render Hamas militarily incapacitated, because the attack of October 7 on its soil shattered its concept of national security. The second is that of Gazan civilians, whose torment reaches unprecedented proportions under the Israeli bombs and blockade.
The Biden administration demonstrates the difficulty of taking into account both aspects of the drama. It has committed its credibility and resources to supporting the Jewish state, whose government is dominated by arsonist and xenophobic nationalists and whose army is committing war crimes in Gaza.
For Joe Biden, this support is not a matter of partisan calculation, but of a necessary moral clarity in the face of the evil embodied by Hamas terrorism. However, the more these war crimes by the Israeli army accumulate, the more the horror suffered by the Jewish state a month ago seems to be diluted in public opinion.
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“If you want to solve the problem, then you have to take into account the truth in its integrity, said former President Barack Obama, in excerpt from a podcast soon to be released. And we must then admit that no one has clean hands, that we are all complicit to a certain degree. » These cold and analytical remarks offer an unprecedented contrast with the position of his former vice-president.
The alliance by proof
After the shock caused by the October 7 attack, the Biden administration provided full political and military support to Israel. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, then Joe Biden himself, visited the site. Arms deliveries were urgently decided. A spectacular deployment of naval aviation forces in the Eastern Mediterranean served as a dissuasive message to Lebanese Hezbollah and Iran. Bilateral exchanges in terms of intelligence but also military analyzes have intensified. This support is the alliance through proof. The fulfillment of America’s decades-long bipartisan commitment to stand with Israel if its security were threatened.
But the perception of this commitment turns against the White House and isolates it. His way of questioning the official reports of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, even if it is under the control of Hamas; his way of placing full responsibility for the deaths on the Islamist movement, because its fighters hide among civilians; his way of not publicly questioning the scale and relevance of the Israeli bombings: all this creates a gap with Arab opinions, but also with a large part of the Democratic electorate in the United States. The demonstration organized on November 4 in Washington, bringing together tens of thousands of people in support of the Palestinians, illustrated this phenomenon.
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