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**APRIL 23, 2024**
On the Prospect website
MAGA 2.0
Can J.D. Vance keep it alive after Trump? BY ROBERT KUTTNER
Why Is the Biden Administration Completing So Many Regulations?
The answer is the Congressional Review Act, which Republicans in a
second Trump presidency could use to further attack the administrative
state. Finalizing rules early protects them from this fate. BY GERARD
EDIC
FTC to Finalize Noncompete Rule Today
The fight now shifts to the courts, where the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
will likely try to strip the agency of its rulemaking authority. BY
DAVID DAYEN & LUKE GOLDSTEIN
Freedom From Speech
Tom Tomorrow brings you This Modern World BY TOM TOMORROW
Kuttner on TAP
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Netanyahu ignores Biden's warnings and plans an imminent operation in
Rafah.
No sooner did the House approve $26 billion in military aid for Israel
than Prime Minister Netanyahu defied President Biden yet again by
resuming air strikes on Rafah and announcing an invasion plan. Attacks
on Sunday by Israel's air force killed at least 22 Palestinians in
Gaza, mostly women and children. That's the kind of loyalty that $26
billion buys you-
**bupkes**,
**gornisht**-complete contempt.
Netanyahu and his military aides have announced an operation to evacuate
civilians from Rafah to Khan Yunis, where tent cities would be set up.
This would be followed by a six-week military operation in Gaza against
Hamas. Once again, Netanyahu is deceiving himself that Hamas can be
wiped out-and playing Biden for a fool.
On Tuesday, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller declared
, "We don't want to see
Palestinians evacuated from Rafah unless it is to return to their homes,
and we have made that quite clear to the Israeli government." That's
nice. The Israeli government doesn't care what the State Department
wants. Miller went on to warn that there is no way for a military
operation in Rafah to go forward without massive civilian casualties.
Ever since Israel changed the subject by bombing the Iranian embassy
complex, U.S. diplomatic pressure has been directed toward constraining
the risk of further escalation in the conflict between Israel and Iran.
U.S. officials congratulated themselves when Israel's response to
Iran's attack of missiles and drones was limited. But meanwhile,
Netanyahu is totally blowing off Biden's repeated warnings about Gaza.
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It is the destruction of Gaza and the loss of civilian life that has
turned world public opinion against Israel-and American public
opinion, especially on the part of the young, against Biden. Israeli
military operations against Rafah take us further away from the kind of
regional settlement that could bring some stability and calm, and
finally make Biden look more like a hero than a goat.
Search the words "Biden warns Israel," and you will find dozens of
explicit Biden warnings against a Rafah invasion in recent weeks that
Netanyahu ignored. Biden has the power to explicitly condition delivery
of military aid. What is he waiting for? Instead, Biden has gotten
sidetracked by yet another secondary issue: proposed U.S. sanctions
against the Netzah Yehuda battalion for human rights violations in the
occupied West Bank, which have infuriated Netanyahu.
The outbreak of civil disobedience on American campuses will only be
further energized by another round of Israeli attacks that kill more
Palestinian civilians. A war that Biden has the power to stop has come
home in a more ominous way. If Biden does lose to Trump this November,
the domestic effects of his failure to restrain Netanyahu will be a
paramount cause.
~ ROBERT KUTTNER
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