Biden mistrusts Netanyahu motives as he itches for a public fight

At the time of this writing Biden has something like a 31% approval and 64% disapproval rating in the US among the citizens. Politically the US citizenry is devided like not seen since the civil war 160 years ago. The government is stuffed to the gills with ideologues, grifters, the wildly incompetant, those who subvert the military, a rogue, weaponized bureaucratic element in the administrative branch. Viciously dirty politics rule the day. The Judicial branch has judges who legislate from the bench rather than apply the law. Congress engages in endless, stupid food fights. And Biden lectures Israelis about their government? He should have a look at his own front yard, some people just need to mow their own lawn.

especially after you lose the election.

There's no telling what Biden's going to say from one moment to the next. However, a look at the Vietnam war might have a deja vu vibe about how Biden might try to dictate how Israel fights Hamas... The WWII vets who became American politicians from the 1950s to the 1980s wanted wars to be limited probably because they went to war every night reliving the unthinkable horror of their years long experiences of brutal death and destruction while they slept. During the Kennedy administration the limited war doctrine was created to straddle the fence between "inglorious retreat or unlimited retaliation." The US couldn't be seen as propping up an unmitigated tyrant like South Vietnamese President Diem, so he was green lighted to be assassinated in a coup by the highest levels of the US government in late 1963. After that the US owned the outcome of the war. Three weeks later President Kennedy was himself assassinated. President Johnson may have contrived the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964 in order to insert American troops to fight a war the South Vietnamese army was either unwilling or incapable of fighting on their own nor the government competent to direct. Due to the doctrine of limited war nothing about the war made sense to the military personnel who were fighting it. They were left as sitting ducks with ridiculous rules of engagement (in order to have a "humane war") in South Vietnam rather than going for the jugular in Hanoi. Having an idiot bean counter like McNamara to "scientifically" run the war largely negated the efforts of the troops. Hanoi fought much of the war not only with the Viet Cong in South Vietnam but also by manipulating American opinion with propaganda swallowed wholesale and regurgitated by much of the leftist antiwar movement, which demonstrated and rioted against the war and spit on returning soldiers while Hanoi argued whether the table was to be square or round at the Paris Peace talks rather than negotiate. President Nixon went after the NVA supply route and ammo dumps in Cambodia but was shouted out of it by public opinion. Nixon pulled the troops out and the South Vietnamese army collapsed in 1974. The antiwar activists who decried alleged atrocities by American troops on civilians didn't care the slightest about the millions of South Vietnamese civilians who were subsequently executed by the North Vietnamese after taking over the country, Some "Peace with honor," and there has been much "inglorious retreat" ever since.