An Israeli army tank shells the Gaza Strip from the border area in southern Israel on Dec. 14, 2023, amid ongoing battles with the Palestinian Hamas movement. That tight bear hug eight weeks ago is now entwined with some of the most hellish aspects of this war. After weeks of defending Israel to the world, Biden on Tuesday issued his sharpest rebuke yet of Netanyahu and the way he is conducting the war. Biden used the term “indiscriminate bombing” once before to refer to the massive destruction Israeli airstrikes inflicted on northern Gaza, with entire districts reduced to rubble. “Netanyahu is not dealing with ‘the morning after’ for the State of Israel, or for Gaza,” said a scathing editorial Tuesday in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 14, 2023 16:19 UTC