Biden administration losing patience Israel, says senior official. 

For weeks, President Joe Biden and his senior officials have been losing patience with the way Israel is fighting the war in Gaza.

They have used increasingly harsh language to express their displeasure to Israel and the wider world.

The decision to allow the latest ceasefire resolution to pass through the Security Council shows that President Biden has decided that strong words are not enough.

Lifting diplomatic protection over Israel’s conduct of the war constitutes an important step. It shows the depth of the rift that has opened between the White House and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Prime Minister Netanyahu responded with a critical attack on Israel’s most important ally.

He condemned the American decision not to use the veto, saying that it harmed the war effort and attempts to free the hostages taken by Hamas on October 7 of last year.

Joe Biden and his senior officials may present these statements under the title of extreme ingratitude.He wants freedom for the hostages as well as the destruction of Hamas as a military force. But Biden wants Israel to do it, as he puts it, “the right way.”

In those devastating first weeks of the war, President Biden warned Israel not to become blinded by anger, as America did after the al-Qaeda attacks of September 11, 2001.

The US President traveled to Israel, consoled the families of the victims of Hamas attacks, and even embraced Netanyahu, with whom his relationship was not easy at all.

President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who have visited Israel six times since October 7, have repeatedly asked Israel to respect international humanitarian law, which includes the obligation to protect civilians.

At the beginning of the war, while those first American warnings were being prepared, Prime Minister Netanyahu promised the Israelis what he called “great revenge.”

Since then, more than 30,000 Palestinians, most of them civilians, have been killed by weapons mostly provided by the United States.

With Gaza in ruins, starvation looming for Palestinian civilians, and the possibility of many more dead in the Israeli attack on Rafah in southern Gaza, President Biden appears tired of his advice being ignored.

Israel claims that it has always respected the laws of war and denies that it is preventing humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza.

But evidence is accumulating that the Israelis are not telling the truth, as children die of hunger just miles from abundant food stores in Israel and Egypt.

Americans and the rest of the world can see the evidence provided by the United Nations and aid agencies that Gaza is on the brink of famine.

The US military is airdropping aid and setting up a temporary dock across the Atlantic so supplies can reach Gaza by sea, while Israel is allowing only small quantities through the port of Ashdod, a modern container terminal located just a half-hour drive north of Gaza. .

The decision not to veto the Ramadan ceasefire resolution is also an attempt by the Americans to respond to accusations that they enabled Israel to act.

This comes after Prime Minister Netanyahu strongly rejected the Biden administration’s plans to find a way to resolve the worst crisis in the Middle East in decades.

The Americans are trying to show that Israel’s impunity in the face of international pressure has limits.

Security Council resolutions are usually considered to have the force of international law. Israel must decide now whether it will respect the resolution, which was welcomed by Hamas and the Palestinian representative to the United Nations.

Netanyahu’s coalition government relies on the support of Jewish nationalist extremists. They will urge him to ignore the decision. If he does, the United States will have to respond.

If more words were not enough, the largest lever at President Biden’s disposal controls the airlift of weapons supplies to Israel, dozens of flights of huge transport planes that bring in the munitions that Israel has used in the war, as well as those that it will need if it proceeds with its plan to expand the war. Wilderness to Rafah.

The alliance between the United States and Israel is deep—in 1948, President Harry Truman recognized Israel’s independence 11 minutes after declaring it—but it has been dysfunctional at times.

Crises occur when Israel defies the wishes of American presidents and harms what they consider to be American interests.

This is not the first time Benjamin Netanyahu has angered the men in the White House. He has done so regularly since he first became Israel’s prime minister in 1996.

But his challenge to the United States has never been so long or so bitter, and no crisis in the long American-Israeli alliance has been as serious as the one that developed during the nearly six-month Gaza war.