President Biden faces a unique combination of factors that may constrain his approach to the war between Israel and Hamas.
America's response to outbreaks of violence in the Middle East conflict has followed the same pattern for decades: U.S. presidents from Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton to Barack Obama pledged support for Israel, then urged restraint and eventually called for an end to the fighting as the death toll rose.
president to exert pressure on Israel's leaders at the moment given how raw emotions are in the country in the early days of the war, Daniel Byman, a professor in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, told Newsweek.'Pushing Israel in one direction or another is going to be very hard,' said Byman.The hostage crisis will also limit Biden's leverage, Byman said, because the U.S.
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