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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Simon Tisdall

Netanyahu is a liability for Biden. Peace is impossible until he goes

Joe Biden embracing Benjamin Netanyahu
US president Joe Biden meets Israeli prime minster Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv in October. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters

The devastating, deeply distressing and unrelenting human suffering in Gaza caused by Israel’s response to Hamas’s 7 October atrocities will leave a permanent mark on all who witness it.

The political damage that resulting worldwide revulsion is inflicting on Israel’s main ally, US president Joe Biden, and on the western-led international rules-based order may also prove irreparable.

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