President Joe Biden left the White House on Tuesday afternoon to fly to Israel, a nation still mourning its dead even as it prepares a ground invasion of Gaza and a mission to wipe Hamas from the face of the earth.
Officials say his whistle-stop mission is two fold: To show solidarity with Israel and to help deliver humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.
Written into that is an even bigger ask.
Analysts say Biden must walk a fine line between helping Israel ensure that Hamas terrorists can never repeat last weekend’s murder spree, when they killed at least 1,300 people, without letting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu‘s military operation give an excuse to Iran‘s regional proxies such as Hezbollah to join the fight.
President Joe Biden left the White House on Tuesday afternoon to fly to Israel, a nation still mourning its dead even as it prepares a ground invasion of Gaza and a mission to wipe Hamas from the face of the earth
Brett Bruen, president of the Global Situation…