It’s tempting to place a major focus on the mishaps now besetting the U.S. temporary pier project off Gaza. But we’re going to get past that lightly, for a brief, even more important discussion of a couple of unbudging realities in the overall situation.
One is that the Biden administration continues to try to thwart Israel’s strategy for Gaza, which is to eliminate Hamas as a factor there and reset post-Hamas conditions for long-term arrangements as advantageously as possible for stability and Israeli security.