Joe Biden caught in a situation he didn’t want to get into

U.S. President Joe Biden is caught in a crisis he didn’t want to be involved in, the whole conflict in Gaza “was not on the president’s agenda.”

Joe Biden caught in a situation he didn’t want to get into

Joe Biden was caught in the middle of a crisis he did not want to join. The outbreak of the conflict in Gaza, after seven years of tense calm, was not on the US president’s agenda.

The pressure is on him to get personally involved in the conflict, as senior officials in Washington try to negotiate a shadow truce after four times blocking a declaration of uncertainty to a damage of hostilities.

Biden only announced Monday that he would speak by phone with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the second time in 48 hours. “I’ll talk later,” he told reporters after a statement on the pandemic.

The traditional U.S. mediating role in the conflict was fulfilled by the Democrat’s evasions, who has dispatched U.S. Secretary of Israeli–Palestinian Affairs Hady Amr to the area.

The White House is confronting the crisis with what its spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, has called “quiet diplomacy”, while criticism from the left wing of the Democratic Party for its collusion with Israel’s crimes is mounting.

The President also spoke for the first time by telephone with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, to whom he asked for an end to Hamas attacks.

An attempt at dialogue that was overshadowed by the sale of $735 million (more than 600 million euros) worth of arms to Israel.

An increasingly complicated situation for the president who hoped that everything would remain dormant.