The US should have a short leash with Israel when it comes to military aid. Israel is flattening Gaza right now with indiscriminate bombing. I understand why they are doing that, but there is no way they are appropriately discriminating in their target selection when they are dropping more bombs in a day than we did in a month in Mosul.
Israel is an ally, and its understandable that Biden and US leadership will be pretty unequivocal in their public support. But I hope that behind the scenes they are telling Israel that if they don't respect the laws of war their aid will dry up. All the Palestinians with dead family members and no prospects are going to be the reason this violence continues in the decades ahead, so it really is in Israel's interest to be more selective than they are now (and the IDF are not being subtle in their public statements that they basically view any target in Gaza as legitimate.).
Israel is an ally, and its understandable that Biden and US leadership will be pretty unequivocal in their public support. But I hope that behind the scenes they are telling Israel that if they don't respect the laws of war their aid will dry up. All the Palestinians with dead family members and no prospects are going to be the reason this violence continues in the decades ahead, so it really is in Israel's interest to be more selective than they are now (and the IDF are not being subtle in their public statements that they basically view any target in Gaza as legitimate.).
