Not sure if anyone really noticed, but the Far Left demands for a cease fire have been joined by moderate, mainstream, international and even Republican calls for a cease-fire. It's not particularly daring or pandering; it's a position pretty much any President would take regarding a 7 month war that's killing vastly more civilians than terrorists. If we saw nightly footage from Gaza rather than Columbia University it would no doubt color our opinion, but that's probably for another thread.
So starting from that point, what would leadership look like? Does the American President say, yes we support Israel politically, financially, and militarily, but we draw the line at providing weaponry likely to be used in a promised assault of Rafah, where a million displaced Palestians have been herded? Conservatives of old would have bristled that a guy like Netanyahu would accept American largesse but refuse any U.S. conditions.
Or would leadership mean doing nothing, because taking this kind of stand would look like pandering to a small percentage of college students unlikely to vote for you anyway?
