There Is No Red Line in Gaza

Israel Defines and Drives U.S. Policy in Gaza

There’s a scene in the original “Matrix” movie in which an adept talks to Neo, the film’s hero, played by Keanu Reeves. The trick, the adept explains, is to perceive the truth that there is no spoon.

The same idea is at work with the so-called red line the Biden administration has in Gaza generally and Rafah particularly. The truth is that there is no red line that Israel could cross that would draw serious condemnation, let alone action, by the Biden administration.

The true red line is that there is no red line. And the U.S. will bend the truth, as Neo is able to bend the spoon in the scene above, in obedience to the diktat of the Israeli government under Bibi Netanyahu.

Postscript: Congress has invited Bibi to address it again, which I think is wonderful. It will be great to hear from the true leader of U.S. foreign policy in that region.