By Daniel DePetris
To say that the Biden administration is frustrated with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be a significant understatement.
The hardline prime minister heading up an even more hardline ultranationalist government has humiliated President Joe Biden continuously, whether it's over Israeli military strategy in Gaza, how Gaza will be administered after the war against Hamas is over, or how much aid should be sent into the enclave. The fact that the U.S. military had to resort to dropping food parcels into Gaza was perhaps the biggest insult of them all—the Biden administration wouldn't be going to such drastic measures if its advice was getting through to the Israeli government.
This piece was originally published in Newsweek on March 7, 2024. Read more HERE.