Joe Biden’s ‘red line’ is an invasion of Rafah. So what happens if Israel attacks?

 

 

"“Biden is in a strategic cul de sac,” Miller said, arguing that a hostages–for-ceasefire deal is the only way out.

 

In the absence of such a deal, Israel is likely to move on Rafah city, forcing Biden to choose between a historic rift with Israel, or humiliating acquiescence in potential war crimes. In both those scenarios, his Middle East policy would be rendered bankrupt, and bankruptcy comes in two ways, as Ernest Hemingway famously noted: “Gradually, then suddenly.”

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