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Biden’s ‘red line’ is drawn in invisible ink
Palestinians can be incinerated beyond recognition but the US is more concerned about Israel’s growing isolation, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

FOR months, US President Joe Biden has been threatening Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with his “red line” on Gaza. Cross this, he warned the Israelis, and the US will … will what, exactly?
Last week, we found out. The Biden administration will do nothing. Worse, it will continue to excuse Israel’s acts of terrorism as merely “the challenge of military air strikes in densely populated areas of Gaza, including Rafah,” according to White House spokesman, John Kirby. No-one asked why bombing “densely populated areas” was all right in the first place.
Kirby was speaking at a White House press conference on Tuesday, in response to the deadly Sunday night Israeli bombing raid on a refugee camp in Rafah.
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