Israel held hostage—and Biden, too

U.S. President Joe Biden rightly despises Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu as a person, and yet he refuses to call time on him because he's still romantically entangled with Israel. That could cost him next November’s presidential election and give us all four more years of President Donald Trump.

The people around Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, pictured, regularly describe the war in Gaza as "existential," but that’s nonsense. The only thing facing an existential risk is his government, which would immediately collapse if the shooting stops, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

January 4, 2024

Israel is withdrawing some troops from Gaza because the reservists who were called up for the fighting amount to 10 to 15 per cent of the country’s workforce, and the economy is showing the strain. But “nobody is talking about doves of peace flying,” said a senior Isra...

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