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. Biden reiterated his staunch support for Israel in San Francisco last week. He said he did not know when the assault on Gaza, where more than 11,000 Palestinians have reportedly been killed, would end. For supporters of a ceasefire, it was a dismaying…
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