Former Biden officials David Satterfield, Jacob Lew, Jake Sullivan, and Antony Blinken. Photo: Isa Terli/Anadolu Agency (Satterfield), Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (Sullivan), Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP (Lew), Takashi Aoyama/Getty Images (Blinken) Tariq Habash could not eat, and later he could not sleep. It was October 7, 2023, and like many Palestinian Americans, his horror at the violence committed by Hamas that day was quickly met by fear — frenetic and queasy — about Israel’s certain retaliation.