An increasing number of Americans want Joe Biden to encourage Israel to stop military actions in Gaza; and Mr. Biden’s handling of the situation is now down to its lowest levels yet.
In the poll, conducted before Iran’s drone and missile attack on Israel, there wasn’t much clamor among the U.S. public for U.S. military action against Iran, were Iran to strike Israel. More would instead have the U.S. support Israel’s next actions.
He didn’t need to set conditions, the Leahy Law already does that. His conditions were a smoke screen so Israel could self certify they aren’t doing anything and people would be mollified. The law already bans weapons exports to countries with credible accusations of human rights abuses. And we’ve been past that point for months now.