CNN —Israel could not have asked for a better friend than President Joe Biden.
As global anger mounted at the thousands of civilian deaths in Gaza during Israel’s counter-attack against Hamas, Biden has been unequivocal on the Jewish state’s right to hit back.
He pushed back at suggestions by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel would somehow control Gaza after the war.
Senior administration officials have repeatedly denied that any part of Biden’s calculations on Israel are rooted in domestic politics.
Protests have rocked university campuses, where there’s been an outbreak of anti-Israel feeling that has sometimes crossed into blatant antisemitism.
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