Michael Doran is director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East and (says I) our best analyst of American Middle East policy. See, for example, his classic 2015 essay “Obama’s secret Iran strategy” and, following up, his 2021 Tablet column “The realignment.” Doran explains otherwise inexplicable Obama/Biden policies while also demonstrating that the Obama/Biden team is, speaking colloquially, crazy.
That’s not how the Obama/Biden team sees it. This morning the Wall Street Journal has published Doran’s column “Israel Kills Sinwar, and Biden Wants to ‘Move On’” (behind the Journal paywall). The Obama/Biden team seeks to restrain Israel and force it into ceasefire deals with its genocidal enemies. They think that Prime Minister Netanyahu and his ministers are crazy for not seeing things the Obama/Biden way.
Some rational observers might see this as a pure case of projection. You be the judge.
Biden hoped that Sinwar's death would force Hamas to negotiate a ceasefire. But the killing simply vindicated Netanyahu's demand for "total victory."
My colleague @Doranimated details the breakdown in Biden's approach to the Middle East: https://t.co/MCo4ha71Vk pic.twitter.com/YCcPqaJiZJ
— John Walters (@john_walters_) October 18, 2024
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