Biden's plan of coddling Israel to cozy up to Saudi Arabia is right out of Donald Trump's playbook — but even worse. In addition to the moral calamity — on full display as Israel bombed Palestinian refugee camps in Gaza — it has also exacted a political cost, damaging his relationship with his base and swing state voters. Critics have attributed Biden’s disastrous handling of the war to incompetence or his lifelong Zionism.
What is really at the center of the administration’s policy, however, is an insidious geopolitical play that will make the world a more dangerous place, advancing U.S. imperial interests under the guise of a diplomatic deal.
Biden wants to... put American lives on the line to protect the Saudi dictatorship and lock us into a new cold war.
At theintercept.com
