“Much more needs to be done to protect civilians and to make sure that humanitarian assistance reaches them,” Blinken told reporters in India, where he wrapped up a nine-day diplomatic tour of the Middle East and Asia on Friday.

“Far too many Palestinians have been killed, far too many have suffered these past weeks, and we want to do everything possible to prevent harm to them and to maximize the assistance that gets to them,” Blinken continued.

[I’m only surprised it took this long for the Biden team to go wobbly. The Palestinians started this war; if they want to end it, they can surrender and give up all of their leadership. Until they do, the losses are on them, not the Israelis, who didn’t start this war and spent the last 17 years attempting to avoid it. This is an asinine version of the deeply stupid “proportionality” argument that would forever handcuff Israel against Hamas. — Ed]