The political ripples of the Israel-Palestine crisis are already hitting both US parties | Lloyd Green

Biden may be the last unalloyed pro-Israel Democratic president - but right now he sets the tone of US policy

Once again, the Middle East looms large in US politics. Hamas's attack on southern Israel will reverberate in the weeks and months to come. On Monday, Joe Biden announced that 11 Americans were killed. Already, the political fallout is being felt in the White House and Capitol Hill, in California and in New York.

The strains between the Biden administration and Benjamin Netanyahu's government have subsided. As a result, the Republicans can no longer try to lay sole claim to the pro-Israel card heading into the 2024 elections.