The current debate within the Biden-Harris administration is not whether to go after Israel, but how far to go. The administration has escalated its governmental BDS policy by imposing sanctions on Israeli construction companies building houses in parts of Israel claimed by Islamic terrorists.
Meanwhile, White House staffers anonymously signed a letter demanding an arms embargo.
Congressional letters in favor of an arms embargo and sanctions on members of the Israeli government have been signed by a number of Democrats.
The Biden-Harris administration had threatened an arms embargo using false claims of hunger in Gaza as a pretext, but the timing may be bad after Hamas was just caught raiding food shipments. The existing silent arms embargo may still transition into an open one. And likewise the sanctions on Israeli government officials may still kick in, but after the election, those tactics appear impotent.
Trump has already announced a pro-Israel team and that means much of what the Biden-Harris admin does is likely to get shut down. It also means that their activities can be described as…
- Creating precedents regardless of whether they are later canceled
- Modeling and promoting actions within an international context
The Trudeau regime in Canada in particular has coordinated its campaigns against Israel with this administration.
The larger question though is what will the Biden administration do at the UN on its way out the door? Everything else is building up to that.