Student demonstrators

Robert Reich says that his conversations with US student protesters showed him that their protests are meant as a rebuke to Israel's deadly violence in Gaza. He reports that Biden said he has cut off supply of artillery shells for Israel to use in attacking Rafah, and credits this as an achievement for the protesters.

His article does not report the fine print of Biden's decision. Israel surely has lots of artillery shells already. Is this decision going to actually hamper Israel's current attack?

Even if it doesn't do that, it must help convince some of the Israeli government that Israel cannot continue down this path. Maybe that will suffice to change the government and end the bombardment and siege of Gaza.

Let's not lose sight of where we want to end up.