Biden begs Israel to go easy on Hamas

In his second visit to the Holy Land in two weeks, Secretary of State Antony Blinken is beseeching Bibi and his “war cabinet” to cut the Palestinians some slack. Rules of War and all that jazz. In response, Israel bombed a convoy of ambulances attempting to ferry injured from Gaza City to the south. That strikes me as a resounding “go fuck yourself” from the Israelis. Blinky’s first visit didn’t fare much better. On that trip he pleaded with Bibi to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza. The desultory response from the Israeli side was to allow in an average of 12 trucks per day for two weeks. Aid organizations unanimously agree at least 100 trucks per day are required. It’s safe to say that US influence over its pet isn’t what it used to be. Which presents a political conundrum for the Biden regime. Apocalypse Joe has an election coming up, and it won’t do him any good if he’s seen to be presiding over an actual apocalypse at the time. And apocalypse is what’s unfolding there in the Holy Land. Operation Mighty Vengeance has claimed almost 10,000 civilians by now, 4,000 of them children. That’s revenge for the 1405 Israeli’s slaughtered by Hamas on 10/7. How does Israel calculate how much Mighty Vengeance is enough? Is a 10:1 kill ratio sufficient? Or does that still undervalue a Jewish life vis-a-vis a Palestinian? Does the kill ratio need to be 50:1 or 100:1 before a humanitarian ceasefire can be considered?