A Significant Announcement
Published at 08:23 on 9 May 2024
The latest announcement from the Biden Administration is significant. That it is also weak sauce compared to the sort of announcement one might expect in the wake of genocidal conduct by most other nations does not refute the former point. Because, of course, Israel is not most other nations. Israel is a nation that has had a uniquely tight relationship with the USA for the last seven decades. Changing such a long-standing policy is like changing the course of a supertanker: it does not happen overnight. Despite the slow pace of the change, Israel’s self-inflicted reputational damage is starting to take its toll.