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 Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesJoe Biden is in the process of alienating his allies for the sake of adversaries he can neither win over, nor appease. This, as they say, is a rookie mistake.
I'm speaking, of course, about Biden's threat that the U.S. will not supply weapons for Israel to invade Rafah, a city that the Associated Press describes as "the last major Hamas stronghold in Gaza."
In so doing, Biden is being less than a loyal friend to Israel, an ally who rightly views Hamas as an existential threat. But he's also alienating his political allies right here in America. And while we can debate the ethics of urban warfare in Gaza, what seems less debatable is the notion that this is a shrewd political move. Indeed, it strikes me as quite stupid.
Read more at The Daily Beast.
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Larry Hamm is chair of the People's Organization for Progress and a Princeton alumnus who took part in protests at the school in the 1970s to call for divestment from apartheid South Africa. He visited the Princeton student encampment earlier this week and says he is "really proud of the students" for their protest against the war in Gaza. Hamm, who is running in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate from New Jersey, is promoting a vote for "uncommitted" in the state's presidential primary vote. "I'm totally opposed to the Biden administration's approach to this genocidal war in Gaza. There must be an immediate and permanent ceasefire, and the United States should cease any military aid to Israel."
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