Biden must summon the courage to use the considerable he has to force a cease fire. This won’t be precedent setting:
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/13/us-presidents-red-lines-israel
Other U.S. presidents have also threatened to withhold aid from Israel.
Dwight Eisenhower
During the Suez Crisis of the 1950s, then-President Dwight Eisenhower leveraged the threat of sanctions to convince Israel to withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula, per AP.
In 1953, the Eisenhower administration also temporarily delayed $26 million in funding to Israel over its construction of a hydroelectric project on the Jordan River.
Ronald Reagan
Back in 1981, former President Ronald Reagan indefinitely delayed two shipments of F-16 fighter jets to Israel over the ''escalating level of violence'' in the Middle East.
The following year, the Reagan administration warned Congress that Israel might have violated its arms agreement with the U.S. by using American-made weapons during its invasion of Lebanon, the New York Times reported.
In 1983, Reagan reaffirmed that he would not send F-16 jets to Israel until Israel withdrew its forces from Lebanon.
"While these forces are in the position of occupying another country that now has asked them to leave, we are forbidden by law to release those planes,' he said.
In 1992, the Bush administration threatened to withhold the delivery of $10 billion in loan guarantees to Israel if it continued building settlements in the occupied West Bank and Gaza, the Washington Post reported.