By Walter E. Block
The Biden-Harris Administration has a goal for Israel: at all costs, avoid escalation. And when they say all costs, they mean exactly that: all costs. These costs include, even, the eventual total destruction of that country, Israel, itself. Hey, it is not their nation. They have proven, over and over again, that the prosperity, even the very survival of the Jewish state, is not one of their prime objectives.
To this end they have often urged, nay, threatened, that unless the Jewish state agrees to a pause with its enemies, to a cease fire, to a truce, to a treaty, there will be an end to US transfers of needed, and contracted for, military supplies.
In behalf of this goal there has been recent but constant shuttle diplomacy on the part of the United States, conducted by officers such as Antony Blinken. He and his colleagues have engaged in Monday morning quarterbacking with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his staff in order to promote this vision of theirs: avoid escalation at all costs, even if it severely weakens the only civilized country in the Middle East.
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