Biden can pick up the phone and end the bombing of Gaza today | Mehdi Hasan

Mr President, make the call. End this genocide

Picture the scene. An Israeli prime minister launches airstrikes on an Arab population. Civilians are killed in their thousands. An American president, stunned and shocked by the scenes of carnage on his TV screen, makes a call to his Israeli counterpart. And ... within minutes ... the bombing is over.

Sound crazy? Or maybe simplistic? Perhaps naive, even?

Mehdi Hasan is a broadcaster and author, and a former host on MSNBC. He is a Guardian US columnist