Arms Suspension Signals Biden’s Deepening Frustration With Netanyahu

News Analysis President Joe Biden is growing increasingly frustrated with the Israeli government’s failure to address U.S. concerns regarding a major operation in Rafah, as evidenced by his recent threat to withhold weapon shipments to the Jewish state. For the first time, President Biden declared that should Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu proceed to invade Rafah, the United States would not “supply the weapons and artillery shells.” “Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centers,” President Biden told CNN host Erin Burnett in a rare sit-down interview on May 8....