Between Hamas and election.

"President Joe Biden said for the first time...he would halt some shipments of American weapons to Israel - which he acknowledged have been used to kill civilians in Gaza - if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu orders a major invasion of the city of Rafah." CNN. This was an invitation to Netanyahu. "If we have to stand alone we will stand alone. If we need to, we will fight with our fingernails," he said. TOI. That would look bad, so "Biden is facing backlash from lawmakers in both parties over his ultimatum that a major Israeli offensive in the city of Rafah would result in a shut-off of some US weapons." CNN. The US said "that Israel's use of US-provided weapons in Gaza likely violated international humanitarian law but that wartime conditions prevented US officials from determining that for certain." ABC. The Biden administration has determined, however, that although Israel may have violated international humanitarian law "it hasn't violated terms of US weapons agreements". CNBC. That's alright then. After Biden "gave his ultimatum of withholding offensive weapons to the Jewish state...rocket attacks rained down on Israel," as "Hamas launched rockets from Rafah at the Israeli city of Beersheva on Friday (10 May) for the first time since December, as Iranian proxy Hezbollah sent a barrage of rockets into the northern Israel city of Kiryat Shmona, causing a massive fire." Fox. Hamas and Hezbollah have no restrictions or qualms about killing civilians, children or babies, as proved in photographs shown to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and NATO defence ministers by Israel. Reuters. After all, their control, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran, wants to wipe out Israel. jpost.com. "Biden has paused a shipment of some 3,500 bombs, which includes heavy 2,000 pound versions along with the lighter 500-pound munitions. Both have been used to devastating effect in Gaza, swaths of which have been used to rubble." The Hill. These bombs belong to the Pentagon's Mark 80 series of bombs. "In addition to the 2,000-pound Mk-84, they also come in 250-pound, 500-pound and 1,000-pound versions - the MK-81, MK-82 and MK-83." The US has also developed a 21,000-pound bomb called a Massive Ordnance Air Blast, or MOAB, which was used once in Afghanistan in 2017, and a 30,000-pound bombs called the Massive Ordnance Penetrator. NYT. MOAB is jocularly interpreted as 'Mother Of All Bombs'. wikipedia. Students at universities in the US are protesting furiously against Israel (BBC) in their love for Hamas and they are probably progressives. Biden wants their votes in November (wikipedia). If the US turns its back on Israel it will have to find support from others, maybe even Moscow or Beijing, which "Biden ought to have learned when he tried to turn Saudi Arabia into a global pariah, only to learn, to his own humiliation, the kingdom had other strategic options." ET. Biden has been a Senator since the age of 29 years.The White House. He has spent his whole life winning elections. But, does he want to be remembered as a Hamas protector? His choice.