Status Updates From Crossing the Red Line: Bide...

"Many knew they were being disingenuous. "Ultimately, Israel did not meet all of [Biden's] criteria, and we pretended as if they had done so," a senior U.S. official later told me. Separately, another senior official said the spirit of Biden's red line-no ground operation in Rafah and winding down, not escalating, the war-was indisputably violated. But the administration was committed to behaving otherwise."

"...The administration was strong-arming its own political partners to sustain an image of U.S.- Israel amity and so weakening itself relative to Netanyahu for the coming battle over the red line. Additionally, U.S. officials' involvement in the battle over campuses legitimized the actors and ideas that would later, under Trump, drive a crackdown on fundamental freedoms and universities' independence."

“If a nuclear bomb was dropped on D.C., two forms of life would survive: cockroaches and Brett McGurk.”