Israel's War Crimes and Biden's 'Unusually Strong Language'

The Israeli government should be losing the Biden administration’s support as a result of its indiscriminate bombing, but of course that isn’t happening.

The president once again acknowledged that the Israeli military is committing war crimes:

Israel's security can rest on the United States, but right now it has more than the United States. It has the European Union, it has Europe, it has most of the world ... But they're starting to lose that support by indiscriminate bombing that takes place.

Biden can’t grasp or maybe he can’t face up to the reality that the indiscriminate bombing isn’t just “taking place” but has been a defining feature of this war from the start. The president knows that the Israeli military is indiscriminately bombing Gaza and acknowledges that it is indiscriminate, but he refuses to cut off military assistance to the government doing the bombing. He is doing this in total disregard of our own laws and his administration’s own rules governing the transfer of weapons.

The Israeli government should be losing the Biden administration’s support as a result of its indiscriminate bombing, but of course that isn’t happening. The most that the president can muster is a vague warning that Israel might start to lose the support of nameless others.