Why All the Shock and Outrage?

I guess I'm mystified a bit by the shock and outrage at Biden's betrayal of Israel. Biden has always been a slug, and one who associates with slugs. He and all of his associates continually traffic in lies. I don't want to burst anyone's bubble, but this aspect of Biden and his cronies is not exactly some kind of national secret. So what wise national leader is there, anywhere, who would ever actually trust Joe Biden for anything?

I have to believe that Israel is not surprised by these events. At all. I suspect they have alternatives. If they went into Gaza wholly dependent on Joe Biden, of all people, to achieve their strategic goals and without any plan B, then they are both incompetent and infantile. I don't think they're either of those things.

So I will be more than a little surprised if Israel doesn't proceed, undaunted, to crush Hamas. After which Biden will probably be blamed by Israel's enemies for not betraying Israel sooner, while also now being blamed by Israel's friends, for betraying Israel at all. Thus Biden will have achieved a politically imbecilic kind of hat trick. A maneuver that has turned into kind of a signature move.

Time will tell, I suppose. I myself would prefer to live in uninteresting times. But, to paraphrase Gandalf, “That is not for me to decide”.