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Israel-Hamas War Leaves Joe Biden in Real Political Peril<!-- wp:html --><p>Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images</p> <p>Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse for <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/joe-biden">Joe Biden</a>, the <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/left-wing-defenses-of-hamas-are-an-insult-to-palestinians">Israel-Hamas war</a> poses serious problems for a president already struggling with upside-down approval ratings heading into a re-election year.</p> <p>Domestic politics should not drive foreign policy decisions, and I have given Biden credit for <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/biden-has-been-channeling-ronald-reagan-all-week?ref=author">demonstrating moral clarity</a> <em>thus far </em>with his steadfast support of Israel. But Biden is being squeezed politically on multiple fronts (left, right, and center). Should this war linger, the collateral damage could also include Biden’s second term.</p> <p>Let’s start on the left, where the war has emerged as a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedge_issue#:~:text=A%20wedge%20issue%20is%20a,a%20demographic%20or%20population%20group.">wedge issue</a> dividing <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/keyword/democratic-party">Democrats</a> along the lines of ideology, identity, and age.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/israel-hamas-war-leaves-joe-biden-in-real-political-peril">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse for Joe Biden, the Israel-Hamas war poses serious problems for a president already struggling with upside-down approval ratings heading into a re-election year.

Domestic politics should not drive foreign policy decisions, and I have given Biden credit for demonstrating moral clarity thus far with his steadfast support of Israel. But Biden is being squeezed politically on multiple fronts (left, right, and center). Should this war linger, the collateral damage could also include Biden’s second term.

Let’s start on the left, where the war has emerged as a wedge issue dividing Democrats along the lines of ideology, identity, and age.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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