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For Joe Biden it is the first real foreign policy challenge. When in July 2014 the Israeli army launched the Miv’tza Tzuk Eitan (Operation Protective Edge) against Hamas, which in a few days would have brought Tsahal soldiers inside Gaza, the situation was very similar to today: the cities Israelis had been hit by hundreds of missiles and the current US president sat in the White House (as deputy to Barack Obama).
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