Netanyahu is defiant at every turn and Biden’s foreign policy has left the US looking increasingly like an enfeebled partner in this decades-long relationship.
The EU said such a route could open “very soon”,while British Foreign Minister David Cameron said Israel’s allies were losing patience.
Those of us who are Jewish must not only protest Israel’s profoundly selfish understanding of its right to self-defence,but we must also protest what is a self-inflicted tragedy for not just Israel but the Jewish people in general.
The visit comes as friction between the US and Netanyahu is rising over how to alleviate the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza.
Perhaps it’s time for the PM to take the initiative and continue to raise the tone of the national conversation.
Israeli negotiators say they are prepared to swap high-profile Palestinians in a new hostage deal being negotiated in Paris.
“There’s room for them to go north of Rafah to the place that we’ve already finished fighting in,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
Deep disagreements over Gaza’s future have led to increasingly public friction between Israel and the United States,its closest ally.
It comes after some Israel allies suggested they might consider simply recognising a Palestinian state before any deal is done between Israel and Palestinians..
“There is simply nowhere else for civilians to go,” Anthony Albanese said in a joint statement with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon.
A mass of exhausted people crammed into a two-storey house tells the story of Rafah,the geographic and humanitarian end point of the war in Gaza.