One of the basics of the U.S.-Israel relationship has been Israel always pushing the envelope and making sure they are going as far as they can without risking their relationship with their superpower patron. Those boundaries have stretched much farther over the past decade, and Joe Biden has allowed them to go even further. But the ambitions of some–crucially, not all–in the current Israeli government to pull the United States into a regional conflict that, they hope, would provide the opportunity to deal a crippling blow to all of their regional antagonists, have so far been resisted by the Biden administration.
But Biden is clearly concerned about being pulled in by an Israeli-Hezbollah confrontation and has sent a top security adviser to stem it. This piece at Mondoweiss examines this complicated and potentially explosive web.