Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US president Joe Biden. Netanyahu invited Biden to Israel last weekend, but confirmation of the trip only came after US secretary of state Antony Blinken spent several hours in talks with the Israeli cabinet. Photograph: Michel Euler/APIsrael is the closest ally of the United States in the Middle East, and going back to Richard Nixon virtually all presidents have visited during their period in office.
Netanyahu invited Biden to Israel last weekend. But confirmation of the trip only came after US secretary of state Antony Blinken spent several hours in talks with the Israeli cabinet. Blinken said Biden would restate that Israel had the right and the duty “to defend its people from Hamas and other terrorists, and to prevent future attacks”. But he suggested he US had insisted that the visit could not just be about Israel’s war plans.
There will be an expectation that Biden will now be able to deliver on a plan for aid and the establishment of safe zones. If that does not happen or happens in only a limited way his party could start to splinter on how it views the conflict. And then there is the personal risk that Biden is taking by travelling to a war zone. The president visited Kyiv in February, but this came after the US reportedly warned Russia not to interfere.
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