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Eight years after helping Donald J. Trump get elected — and four years after being released from prison — the longtime political operative was back as a volunteer to advise the G.O.P. convention.
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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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