Israel, the spoiled nation

Israel asks and the United States gives it.

All.

Since the war began, the flow of weapons, including precision missiles and bunker buster bombs, has not stopped, passing through Congressional control in only two cases.

It contrasts with the freezing of aid to Ukraine thanks to a Republican blockade that the White House barely knows how to evade.

There is only one thing Netanyahu doesn't ask for or want: advice.

When he receives them, he ignores them.

And even less so if they are formulated in public, as Europeans usually do.

There are many levers that Washington has to subdue such a surly prime minister, but it does not use any of them.

Let us imagine for a moment that it stops sending weapons, renounces the veto in the Security Council, withdraws the air and maritime forces that prevent escalation in the Red Sea and the Mediterranean and monitors Syria, Iraq and Iran, and even increases the punishment. to the settlers who terrorize Palestinians in the West Bank and to the politicians who represent them in Netanyahu's Government and in the Knesset.

None has been used by Biden to moderate this unfriendly Government, extremist and hostile to his presidency, willing to facilitate Trump's campaign so that the recommendations of compassion and common sense are replaced by applause for the permanent occupation of Gaza, the expulsion of its inhabitants and the establishment of new Jewish colonies in Palestinian territory.

The last message is no longer advice, but a red line, that is, an order from Biden that Netanyahu does not intend to follow.

He is about Rafah, which Israel will only be authorized to invade if it has a credible plan to protect the population.

The patience of the White House seems infinite: since Israel does not have a plan, let's create it with the launch of humanitarian aid by parachute or through a maritime corridor organized by our allies.

It is a slow and insufficient initiative and also tragically contradictory with the bombs supplied by the United States, which fall along with flour, cans and medicines.

Netanyahu has also drawn his red line, which challenges Biden's.

It is the entry into Rafah without conditions, essential for the destruction of Hamas.

He calls it a total victory, but it is his political survival and his judicial lifeline.

He admits a pause before attacking, but not the six-week truce that Washington wants and even less the definitive one that Hamas asks for.

That would be his personal defeat for him, even if he disguised it as Israel's defeat.

Despite the neglected advice on Rafah, Biden has also wanted to reaffirm the dogma on Israel's security as a state policy for Washington, as if it were possible to blow and sip at the same time.

Some have wanted to understand such a paradoxical warning as a surreptitious threat to limit military aid to that which serves strictly to defend themselves and not to kill Palestinians.

It would be the first and most decisive step to convince Netanyahu, but it is hard to believe that such a weak father would win this fight against such a spoiled son.

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