Benny Avni is a columnist who has published in the New York Post, WSJOpinion,…
Perhaps influenced by a growing anti-Israel protest movement on America’s campuses, the Department of State is raising the stakes, claiming a Rafah operation would lead to ‘inordinate’ harm to civilians.
Washington officials now acknowledge that America’s months-long diplomatic push for a Gaza cease-fire and hostage release has hit a brick wall. Officials now blame Hamas, rather than Israel, for blocking any cease-fire.
Biden, meanwhile, emerges as ambiguous on whether he’ll back an Israeli attack on Rafah, Hamas’s last remaining stronghold.
Yet because American laws forbid funding any UN body that recognizes Palestine as a full member, even if Biden wanted to support Palestinian UN membership, he would be forced to veto the current motion, several non-American diplomats tell the Sun.
The visit ‘proves how rogue states and dictators can exploit the UN structure to whitewash their crimes,’ Israel’s UN ambassador, Gilad Erdan, tells the Sun, comparing it to ‘Hitler’s foreign minister addressing the stability of Europe’ during World War II.
The Islamic Republic is eager to complete its domination of Iraq and is pressuring Baghdad to sever agreements that facilitate the presence there of 2,500 American GIs.
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