In what could be a critical moment for Joe Biden in his re-election campaign, the US president attempted in his annual State of the Union address to please his traditional base of older voters who generally see Israel as an important democratic ally in the Middle East, while also trying to appeal to a growing discontented constituency who oppose his support for Israel’s war in Gaza. Even before Biden started his speech, as he was heading through Capitol Hill on his way to deliver the speech, his motorcade was disrupted by a coalition of hundreds of activists demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. “As …