Nathan J. Robinson
Until recently, the Biden administration has publicly insisted that it is conducting vigorous diplomacy to end Israel’s war in Gaza. That war has made Gaza unlivable and likely resulted in well over 100,000 deaths. Health care and aid workers have been killed in staggering numbers, and Gaza has been designated the most dangerous place on Earth to be a child. Every week brings new reports of massacres in Gaza, as one of the world’s most advanced militaries pounds a densely packed strip of land housing an impoverished, hungry, traumatized, and trapped population.
Over the summer, U.S. President Joe Biden made repeated public assurances that a deal between Israel and Hamas was close to being achieved—one that would ensure the release of the remaining Israeli hostages in Gaza and produce a lasting cease-fire. But the deal never happened, and the administration is no longer actively trying to secure a cease-fire, a possibility that has become even more remote as the war has expanded into Lebanon.
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