The aftermath of the UN resolution on a ceasefire in Gaza is analysed in this week’s edition. Julian Borger, our Washington-based world affairs editor, along with reporters in Israel and London, examines why legal qualms about how Israel conducts its campaign to root out Hamas from the Palestinian territory played into the US decision to abstain from exercising its veto on the UN vote.
If observers believed the Biden administration was sending Israel a clear message that it was no longer prepared to let US credibility on the world stage trickle away after pleas to Netanyahu to stop bombing civilian areas and allow food aid into Gaza had gone unheeded then the weekend’s revelation that the latest shipment of heavy US munitions was on its way to the Israeli military suggests that signals from Washington still remain mixed.
