This rhetorical sleight of hand was sufficient to successfully reframe the White House not as the primary patron of mass death, an active party responsible for the maimed children, bombed schools, and hospitals, but an Aw Shucks, relatively powerless, neutral arbiter promoting a “peace process” that never goes anywhere and is defined entirely by bad-faith, absurd demands of unconditional surrender by one side. So long as this Diplomacy Theater provides cover, the White House will hide behind it. Meanwhile, the weapons shipments continue unabated, Palestinians continue to starve, live in terror, get bombed at random, and the death train churns on without anyone noticing, doing anything to stop it, or even those steering it being made to feel the least bit ashamed or embarrassed. After all, didn’t you read in The New York Times that Biden is working towards a “ceasefire deal”?