President Biden denounced the Hamas killings as “sheer evil” but also condemns attacks by Israeli settlers as “pouring gasoline on the fire.”
By Yasmeen Abutaleb, The Washington PostPresident Joe Biden speaks during a meeting with his Cabinet in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Monday, Oct. 2, 2023.
In the aftermath of Hamas’s deadly attacks on Israeli civilians Oct. 7, Biden fiercely embraced Israel, traveled to Tel Aviv and emphasized the Jewish state’s right to hit back hard. But in recent days, he has increasingly responded to rising discontent in the Arab world over Israel’s devastating barrage of airstrikes and its comprehensive siege of Gaza, an enclave of roughly 2 million people.
Biden immediately condemned the Hamas attacks as “sheer evil,” suggesting they echoed centuries of antisemitic violence endured by Jews.
When Biden was asked by a reporter about the more than 6,500 civilians killed in Gaza, he said he was skeptical of that figure, which has been reported by a Health Ministry run by Hamas. If Iranian-backed proxies — especially Hezbollah, a political party and militant group in Lebanon that, along with its allies, currently controls the largest number of parliamentary seats — then enter the conflict and turn it into a two-front war, it could stretch Israeli forces and potentially pull the United States into the fray.
Throughout his presidency, Biden has devoted less energy than some of his predecessors to trying to bring about peace between Israelis and Palestinians. His long foreign policy experience appeared to convince him of America’s limited influence in that effort. At the same time, Biden seemed to accept the growing conclusion of some leaders in the region that Israel and Arab nations could normalize relations without resolving the Palestinian issue first.
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