Posted on 03/07/2024 6:45:17 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
The Washington Post published a report Wednesday that the Biden Administration may limit arms transfers to Israel if it attacks the remaining four Hamas battalions in Rafah, a city on the Egyptian border in the southern Gaza Strip.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that Israel must enter Rafah to destroy Hamas and win the war. His war cabinet is considering a plan to evacuate Palestinian civilians north of the city before a military operation.
David Ignatius, a columnist known for his sources in government, published the story, likely leaked from the White House:
The Biden administration, worried about a new humanitarian catastrophe, appears to be considering ways to prevent Israel from using U.S. weapons if it attacks the densely populated area around the city of Rafah.
President Biden and senior advisers haven’t made any decision about imposing “conditionality” on U.S. weapons. But the very fact that officials seem to be debating this extreme step shows the administration’s growing concern about the crisis in Gaza — and its sharp disagreement with Israeli leaders over a Rafah assault.
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Behind the growing tension with Netanyahu is Biden’s feeling that Israel hasn’t been listening to U.S. warnings and advice, and that the U.S.-Israeli relationship has been a one-way street. The administration feels it supports Israeli interests, at considerable political cost at home and abroad, while Netanyahu isn’t responsive to American requests. Israel argues that any space between U.S. and Israeli policy only benefits Hamas. But Israel doesn’t make compromises to narrow that gap
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“If the US and Russia were allied against China and the Islamics”
China and Islam are tolerable in their own places.
The US is not out to get them, nor should it be.
This is a clear case of a hardened MILITARY MAN trying to save his country from HAMAS AND Biden
a) punishes the Saudis and withdraws support for the war against the Houthis: results are obvious now;
b) withdraws US support and completely abandons Afghanistan, resulting in a debacle;
c) publicly wrings its hands about the growing Russian forces on Ukraine's borders but does nothing to expedite arms shipments and offers Zelensky a ride out, showing that they were willing to write-off the whole country;
d) drops sanctions and transfers billions in frozen assets to Iran in exchange for absolutely nothing. Iran arms Hamas and the awful Oct 7 attack is the result;
The "Biden" junta's path of destruction through US foreign policy can only be compared to the Democratic Party's debacles surrounding the fall of Saigon through the Carter Administration.
This is a clear case of a hardened MILITARY MAN trying to save his country from HAMAS AND Biden
The IDF will find the weapons, death is easy to acquire and plentiful these days.
“Talking loudly and carrying a limp stick“
Just letting you know, I’m stealing that line.
Israel will learn to live without the USA, because the USA is going away.
A serious arms embargo on Israel will have unintended consequences. As a last resort, there’s the Samson Option, but Israel also has tactical nukes and so-called neutron bombs, and also plenty of their own conventional weaponry that could be far more ruthlessly used without the traditional US bullying.
WaPo WANTS this. Not just “reporting” it.
Israel will be the next ally to fall into the democrat trap of "bait and switch diplomacy".
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