My Take | For Israel, the road to Tehran has always been through Washington
Netanyahu has long understood with each escalation towards – from Gaza and the West Bank, then Lebanon and now finally, the prized war against Iran – the US will capitulate bit by bit, until it has no autonomy left in the Middle East
A forthcoming book on the Joe Biden presidency by legendary journalist Bob Woodward reports that the retiring US president was repeatedly frustrated by Benjamin Netanyahu. That’s according to Associated Press, which was given an advance copy.
You don’t say! Several leading newspapers have said as much if not worse for Biden, so it must be official.
“How Netanyahu ran rings around Biden”, headlined an op-ed in The Washington Post.
In a longer news feature, the Financial Times ran almost the exact headline at about the same time: “How Netanyahu is ‘running rings’ around Biden”. At least two columnists at The New York Times have been arguing Biden may have failed in the Middle East, but it was all with good intentions!
A coincidence? And, by the way, don’t they call that the road to hell?
Perhaps the White House has been feeding the same line to the news media to create the appearance of “diminishing responsibility” for the elderly president. Who knows what the reputational damage there would be to Biden’s legacy – or whatever is left of it – if the charges of genocide and war crimes against Israeli leaders at international courts stick? After all, his administration has been arming the Israelis and giving them diplomatic cover at every step.
