Netanyahu crosses every red-line and yet is rewarded with more weapons. Why? | Mohamad Bazzi

Netanyahu has broken multiple promises to Biden to restrain Israeli attacks on Gaza. Biden is complicit in Israel's impunity

For the past year, as the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, eviscerated one US-imposed red line" after another in Israel's brutal war on Gaza, Joe Biden and his feckless administration insisted that they did not want the conflict to spread to neighboring Lebanon and beyond. But over the past month, Netanyahu and his government launched an all-out war against Lebanon, with intensive airstrikes throughout the country and a ground invasion of southern Lebanon. More than 1 million people have been displaced, as Israel expands its assault on what it claims are Hezbollah strongholds".

And how has Biden responded to Netanyahu's latest obstinacy and constant humiliation of the US administration? Biden keeps sending more US weapons and military support to Israel. On Sunday, the Pentagon announced that it was deploying one of its most advanced missile defense systems to Israel, along with about 100 American troops to operate it. This will be the first time that Washington has openly deployed US forces to Israel since Netanyahu's government launched its war on Gaza after last October's attack by Hamas militants.

Mohamad Bazzi is director of the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, and a journalism professor at New York University