Joe Biden seems unreasonably attached to Israel, a nation (like Assyria) invented by people concocting a shared fiction. These national fictions matter. Millions die to defend them.
The world's first superpower, the Assyrian empire, conquered the Middle East 34 centuries ago and kept going, They took Egypt, too. They raped, tortured, slaughtered whole cities. And for some reason this behavior never stopped happening among Samaritans, Babylonians, Israelites, Moslems, Christian crusaders, etc.
Consider ancient Jericho, where the walls fell down. The invaders murdered every man, woman, child and beast of burden. You can read about it--it's in the Book.
Netanyahu (or Ashurbanipal) today seems to be seeking new killing fields. I think Biden, behind the scene, may be trying to slow that search. But he should get out front. It's time.
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