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Antony Blinken tends to speak with a soft voice, almost in a whisper. His language is also restrained, and his words are chosen carefully. You won’t catch him putting his feet on the table like Barack Obama, or swearing like Donald Trump. He’s a diplomat. His stabs are barely noticeable. It’s hard to argue with him.
But as the days go by, it is becoming increasingly clear that the second Jewish US secretary of state is the most hostile Israel has known in decades. The most serious thing he does, with honey-mouthed words, is trying to stop the Israeli war machine in its tracks. That is the real goal of the moves he is trying to concoct.
He won’t say that out loud. US President Joe Biden stated at the outset of the hostilities that Washington was committed to the goals of the war, and unlike the case in Israel, a US cabinet secretary cannot contradict the president’s words. So Blinken has found a workaround: He demands more and more humanitarian aid, which he knows goes straight to Hamas, and helps the organization prolong its rule in the Gaza Strip; he opposes IDF activity in Rafah, Hamas’s last stronghold, for fear of harming the population, of course; and he expects the Gazan population to return to the north of the Strip, even though this would interfere with the war.
Thus, visit after visit, Blinken throws a spoke in the Israeli tanks’ tracks.
Now he expects Israel to agree to a very long ceasefire as part of the second deal, turn a blind eye to Hamas’s continued rule, withdraw its forces from the Gaza area and commit to a Palestinian state.
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But as the days go by, it is becoming increasingly clear that the second Jewish US secretary of state is the most hostile Israel has known in decades. The most serious thing he does, with honey-mouthed words, is trying to stop the Israeli war machine in its tracks. That is the real goal of the moves he is trying to concoct.
He won’t say that out loud. US President Joe Biden stated at the outset of the hostilities that Washington was committed to the goals of the war, and unlike the case in Israel, a US cabinet secretary cannot contradict the president’s words. So Blinken has found a workaround: He demands more and more humanitarian aid, which he knows goes straight to Hamas, and helps the organization prolong its rule in the Gaza Strip; he opposes IDF activity in Rafah, Hamas’s last stronghold, for fear of harming the population, of course; and he expects the Gazan population to return to the north of the Strip, even though this would interfere with the war.
Thus, visit after visit, Blinken throws a spoke in the Israeli tanks’ tracks.
Now he expects Israel to agree to a very long ceasefire as part of the second deal, turn a blind eye to Hamas’s continued rule, withdraw its forces from the Gaza area and commit to a Palestinian state.
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How Blinken is undermining Biden’s pro-Israel stance
As the days go by, it is becoming increasingly clear that the second Jewish US secretary of state is the most hostile Israel has known in decades.
www.israeltoday.co.il
