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After Biden’s Afghanistan fiasco, why should Israel take his advice?

“Great, now we’re taking lessons from the losers.”

So said Captain Hawkeye Pierce in the TV comedy “M*A*S*H” after a U.S. general invoked a German war practice. Israeli leaders likely had the same thought when asked to listen to Biden officials’ ideas for completing the Gaza war.

The very day the White House requested Israel send a delegation to Washington to discuss a war plan — a meeting Israel first agreed to, then canceled, and then occurred yesterday virtually  — the House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing on one of the leading foreign policy debacles in recent memory: the Biden administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. The White House architects of that fiasco have no credibility to dictate military strategy to Israel…

Read full article in The Hill.