The Bottom Line

US Sen­a­tor Van Hollen: It’s time for the US to tell Is­rael, ‘If you con­tin­ue to ig­nore us, there will be con­se­quences.’

Fac­ing a re­bel­lion in his par­ty and star­va­tion in Gaza, will the Biden ad­min­is­tra­tion con­sid­er a new ap­proach to Is­rael?

Gaza’s med­ical in­fra­struc­ture was woe­ful­ly in­ad­e­quate, but now even that has been de­stroyed by Is­rael’s war.

Is Is­rael try­ing to as­so­ciate Hamas and UN­R­WA to mo­bilise anti-Pales­tin­ian sen­ti­ment in the US?

US po­lit­i­cal sci­en­tist Stephen Walt says Is­rael has changed over the years, but Biden’s pol­i­cy is stuck in the past.

Philoso­pher and in­de­pen­dent pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Cor­nel West says Is­rael and the US are ‘in­ter­twined in geno­cide’.

White House spin notwith­stand­ing, Is­rael is pro­ceed­ing ex­act­ly as the US likes, ar­gues The In­ter­cept’s Je­re­my Sc­ahill.

For­mer US diplo­mat Aaron David Miller says prospects for ‘con­flict-end­ing so­lu­tion’ have en­tered ‘a long, dark tun­nel’.

French his­to­ri­an Jean-Pierre Fil­iu says Gaza’s rich civ­i­liza­tion has en­dured cen­turies of wars, but not Is­rael’s war.

US Gen­er­al Mark Kim­mitt says Is­raeli talk of an­ni­hi­lat­ing Gaza ‘sounds good on TV’ but is im­prac­ti­cal and il­le­gal.