I dont think Biden is trying to distract people. I think if anything the move points out the extreme measures the US is willing to go through to get aid to people in a territory controlled by what is supposed to be a close ally who is refusing to cooperate.
The pier is both an answer, if a bad one, and a glaring, flashing red light that the Biden admin has committed to prodding the Israel goverment with. It carries with it the threat of “we may put US soliders on the ground in Gaza,” which would drastically shift the scope and direction of thr US/Israel relationship, a relationship that has been intensely beneficial to Israel. A change in its status quo will only be negative from a domestic and foreign policy standpoint locally.
It has indeed already prompted intense attention to Israel border police refusing to arrest or stop Israeli protestors calling for genocide that have been blocking the land routes for over a month. They have just now finally started apprenhending those protesters, but aid is still not getting in by Israel’s choice.
If this was meant to distract people from the fact that Israel is stopping aid getting into Gaza then it’s not working. More the reverse I think.
I dont think Biden is trying to distract people. I think if anything the move points out the extreme measures the US is willing to go through to get aid to people in a territory controlled by what is supposed to be a close ally who is refusing to cooperate.
The pier is both an answer, if a bad one, and a glaring, flashing red light that the Biden admin has committed to prodding the Israel goverment with. It carries with it the threat of “we may put US soliders on the ground in Gaza,” which would drastically shift the scope and direction of thr US/Israel relationship, a relationship that has been intensely beneficial to Israel. A change in its status quo will only be negative from a domestic and foreign policy standpoint locally.
It has indeed already prompted intense attention to Israel border police refusing to arrest or stop Israeli protestors calling for genocide that have been blocking the land routes for over a month. They have just now finally started apprenhending those protesters, but aid is still not getting in by Israel’s choice.
It’s a distraction from the US’s complicity.