Political scientist Shibley Telhami says Biden is letting his “personal preference” guide US policy toward Israel.
Shibley Telhami, a professor at the University of Maryland, says US President Joe Biden makes his decisions on Palestine and Israel “based on personal beliefs, personal preferences, personal emotions” and “not necessarily motivated by thoughtful assessment of the U.S. interests at stake.”
Telhami told host Steve Clemons that Biden’s “failure to empathize” with the Palestinians is shocking and that the president’s recent warnings to Israel were partly motivated by his calculations for the Palestinian elections. next year.
All the talk about plans for “the day after” the war distracts from the real-time death and destruction in Gaza, Telhami says.