Secretary of State Antony Blinken has finally found a country that he is willing to stand up to. That country happens to be Israel.
Blinken has been a key figure in President Joe Biden’s plan to blackmail Israel into letting Hamas survive and rebuild, which is what Biden is calling for by telling Israel not to invade Rafah. Blinken continues to insist that Hamas can be defeated by other means, a laughable notion before you even consider that the grand plan he has been boasting of involves getting Hamas to agree to a ceasefire that he described as “extraordinarily, extraordinarily generous.”
In the meantime, though, Blinken has been part of the Biden team putting pressure on Israel. He boasted about going to the notoriously anti-Israel United Nations with a resolution supporting a ceasefire, just for Russia and China to unceremoniously shoot it down. He has shamed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in private with warnings about Israel’s standing in the world and is now feeding into the narrative that Israel’s actions are immoral by defending Biden’s decision to withhold arms and saying that “we do not want to be a part” of Israel’s plan.
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All of this is more pressure than Blinken has put on just about any other country or group. Much as Biden’s idea of deterrence is muttering the word “don’t” when a country such as Iran begins acting up, Blinken’s grand strategy is to issue “condemnations.” If Hamas seizes humanitarian aid, as it always has done, offered by the United States to Gaza civilians, Blinken declared, “We’ll be the first to condemn it.” Blinken allowed the Taliban to walk all over the Biden administration and its “concerns.” Blinken’s warnings to China over its support of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are less ominous than those he is giving to Israel over its war against Hamas.
This is where Blinken’s brand of doormat diplomacy leads. Biden and Blinken get rolled by enemies and adversaries, whether at the United Nations, in Afghanistan by the Taliban, or in various infamous “don’t” declarations. Instead, they have to flex their might on an ally in Israel and do so while pushing aid to Gaza that will inevitably end up in the hands of Hamas with nothing more than a condemnation. Is it any wonder that global affairs are so much worse now than before Biden and Blinken took office?