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The Guardian - US
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Lloyd Green

The political ripples of the Israel-Palestine crisis are already hitting both US parties

Joe Biden held a bilateral meeting with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the 78th UN general assembly in New York in September 2023.
Joe Biden held a bilateral meeting with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the 78th UN general assembly in New York in September 2023. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

Once again, the Middle East looms large in US politics. Hamas’s attack on southern Israel will reverberate in the weeks and months to come. On Monday, Joe Biden announced that 11 Americans were killed. Already, the political fallout is being felt in the White House and Capitol Hill, in California and in New York.

The strains between the Biden administration and Benjamin Netanyahu’s government have subsided. As a result, the Republicans can no longer try to lay sole claim to the pro-Israel card heading into the 2024 elections.

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