Opinion Don’t believe the Netanyahu bashing. The U.S. basically agrees with him.

The Biden administration’s policies toward the Middle East over the past year are generally cast by the media as well-meaning but ineffective. The president and his team, according to what his aides tell reporters, are pushing hard for a resolution that ends the violence. The president reportedly scolds Benjamin Netanyahu when the two speak privately but can’t get the Israeli prime minister on board with a strategy that would minimize Palestinian casualties.

There is probably some truth to all of that. But a year into a conflict that has now expanded beyond Gaza to the West Bank, Iran, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen, I’m increasingly convinced the Biden administration largely agrees with Netanyahu’s strategy, despite sometimes implying otherwise. In many ways, Netanyahu’s policies are America’s policies — and acknowledging that dynamic is a first step to changing it.