Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and US president Joe Biden. Biden’s decision to pause the delivery of bombs to Israel was meant to convey a powerful signal that his patience has limits. Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP The message was not getting through. Not through the phone calls or the emissaries or the public statements or the joint committee meetings. And so, frustrated that he was being ignored, US president Joe Biden chose a more dramatic way of making himself clear to Israeli leaders. He stopped sending the bombs. Biden’s decision to pause the delivery of 3,500 bombs to Israel was meant...