Former U.S. officials lamented the Biden administration’s policies toward Israel amid the Gaza war during a 60 Minutes segment focused on disillusioned officials.

Miller added the U.S. did not impose any red lines, leaving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the message that “he was the one in the driver’s seat, and he was controlling this, and U.S. support was going to be there, and he could take it for granted.”

Former diplomat Hala Rharrit noted she was “basically berated” by a superior for including images of children that starved to death, with her reports on Arab views on the U.S. role in the war suspended after just three months.

Miller, meanwhile, noted the war will only end “when Israel says it’s over. Absent intervention from the United States or for someone else to compel or to force a decision. It ends when Netanyahu says it’s over.”

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    We literally sanctioned the ICC rather than Israel. So yah… this is putting it lightly. The US will never again be able to claim they are above genocide without looking like ridiculous hypocrites, and it’s fucking sad.

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    Obama risked his re-election chances to give healthcare to tens of millions of Americans. Biden threw away the presidential election just because he was that stubbornly committed to protecting Israel from any consequences for their aggression. Even his ambassador to Israel conceded that this sunk the campaign. He is so out of touch.

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      Good thing the current guy will super totally definitely hold Israel to account!

      Biden failed on this issue but the people who decided not to vote because of that are plain stupid and are to blame.

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        They are not stupid, they literally say there was no red line. Whatever trump will do is not going to be any worse. The sniper literally shot kids in the head multiple time. They killed over 100k and many other with limbs missing. One kids has only one leg, lost his entire family, no food and most likely they will burn the camp he is in.

        They disguised as doctors, in the west bank, and shot a woman the other day going to buy food.

        Like get over it already. Is not going to get worse.

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    The US was belligerent to international calls for some form of help. I mean it’s blatantly obvious the message is our forward operating base is what it is and we’ll just let shit happen to keep it.

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    What failure? The excessive use of force is why we were selling them weapons. Gaza has been Biden’s only unmitigated success.