When President Joe Biden lands in France on Wednesday, he will rally European leaders to his side and demonstrate the resolve he helped foster on behalf of Ukraine.
But he will also defy the very same leaders and stand virtually alone among the Western democracies that still strongly support Israel as it wages war in the Gaza Strip.
Biden’s trip to France for the 80th anniversary of the D-Day invasion will be his first time in Europe since the October 7 terrorist attack led by Hamas that killed 1,200 people in Israel and triggered a military retaliation which killed approximately 36,000 people. Gaza. He returns to Europe next week for a summit in Italy with the leaders of the Group of Seven countries, and three weeks after that he will host the 75th anniversary of the NATO summit in Washington.
