Posted on 03/20/2024 10:11:51 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I swear, if you don't laugh once in a while in politics, you'll spend all day crying ... or screaming. And this story will make us do all three, and not in that particular order.
The Biden administration desperately needs to get Israel to slow down and let Hamas off the hook in Gaza, because ... Dearborn, apparently. Benjamin Netanyahu and 82% of Israelis are telling Biden to pound sand, so Biden wants to look for some alternative for the IDF that doesn't involve the actual destruction of Hamas, at least not before the elections in November.
US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan touched on this idea on Monday when he announced that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had accepted a request from US President Joe Biden during their phone call earlier that day to send an inter-agency team to Washington “to hear US concerns about Israel’s current Rafah planning and to lay out an alternative approach that would target key Hamas elements in Rafah and secure the Egypt-Gaza border, without a major ground invasion.”
Elaborating on the alternative approach the Biden administration has in mind, a second senior US official said Washington envisions Israel focusing instead on preventing the smuggling of weapons from Egypt into Gaza through the Philadelphi Corridor.
Say what? Does Biden and his administration now admit that an unsecured border is a national-security risk? Because Texas and a lot other states would be glad to hear this. This administration has spent the last three years and change scoffing at the idea that an uncontrolled border presents any risk at all, and have gone to court several times to preserve their right to not enforce laws that would prevent illegal entries on a massive scale.
Nor is this the only idiocy contained in this proposal. First off, Israel only secures its own borders with Gaza, and has since ending its occupation of the Strip in 2005. In order to secure that Gaza border with Egypt, Israel would have to occupy Gaza once again, and would have to remain in place as long as Hamas remained in Rafah and the rest of Gaza. Not only would that set Israel up for long-term degradation of its forces in Gaza, it would force them to use increasing levels of force to maintain their position against a terror-oriented population.
Next, this is a direct insult to Egypt, which does have responsibility for securing the Philadelphi Corridor. And the Biden administration knows it:
The official avoided blaming the Egyptian government for the smuggling that was partially responsible for Hamas’s re-armament amid successive rounds of conflict with Israel over the past 15 years. However, they said reaching a new arrangement with Cairo and building the necessary infrastructure to cut off the smuggling route would be more critical to the dismantlement of Hamas than a major ground offensive in Rafah.
How long will that take? It will be longer than 'months,' to be sure. This proposal would require the IDF to occupy Gaza until it gets completed, if in fact it ever does get completed. Why not let Egypt secure the border and let Israel finish the war Hamas started?
And all the while, let's not forget that Hamas will remain in Rafah with an estimated four brigades of its fighters/terrorists, and with unknown paths of egress to other parts of Gaza. Even if the IDF can shut down smuggling at the Philadelphi Corridor, Hamas still has large stores of munitions and weaponry, not to mention the hostages and other human shields they can use for guerilla attacks on the IDF.
This proposal makes as much sense as halting the invasion of Germany outside of Berlin and letting the Nazi high command organize its remaining forces. While air-dropping them food and medicine, no less.
In short, this is an unserious proposal by unserious people, which comes as no shock since the very same military geniuses that propose this also authored the craven and disgraceful Kabul Bug-Out, and remain unapologetic for it to this day.
But it's nice to know they care about border security. Somewhere, anyway. Just not for America.
When the Israelis shoot down this little trial balloon, Biden and his team will blame Netanyahu, because they keep missing the point. Netanyahu's not driving these decisions -- the Israeli people are demanding these policies. A poll conducted by an Israeli newspaper shows 82% of Israelis support a military invasion of Rafah, and two-thirds oppose aid while Hamas holds any hostages:
Most Israelis, 82%, support a military operation in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, a new poll shows, despite pressure from the Biden administration and Democrats against doing so.
Just 10% of Israelis said the operation should not happen "in any circumstances," while 49% say the operation should proceed "in any circumstances," and 33% said it should occur under certain conditions, according to a poll commissioned by "Globes," an Israeli newspaper.
Additionally, just 11% of Israelis say the country "does not do enough" to protect civilians in Gaza, while 62% say Israel "does all it can" to avoid civilian casualties and 19% say "Israel does too much, since there are no 'non-combatants' in the Gaza Strip," per the poll.
Furthermore, 44% of Israelis say that aid to Gaza should be conditional upon the release of the hostages, while 22% say that no aid should be given while the war continues.
It seems as though Israelis like border security, too. They like strong borders and the destruction of enemies who breach them to commit atrocities and start wars. They must be wondering why an American government worries more about the terrorists than the people who are trying to finally defeat them.
RE: Isn’t Rafah in Israel?
Isn’t Gaza really a part of Israel?
Democrats and Republican NeoCons want to secure every border in the world—except the US border.
According to “River to Sea” Netanyahu it is.
RE: You won’t believe what Biden’s proposing....
Is it low, scummy, slimy, two-faced, self-serving, deceitful and politically motivated to help the Dems?😈🦨🐀🐍
Then I guess I should believe it.
I believe Biden would sell this country and Israel down the drain to prevent his family from being expose as nothing but a bunch of cheap traitors who care about nothing but power and $$$$.
Gaza was a part of Egypt. Then after the 1973 war Egypt abandoned it. It has basically been a no man’s land all these years.
So, let Egypt take it back.
Hasn't that ship sailed?
Even Israel’s military and intelligence people have said eliminating Hamas is not possible. Most of the world views this as Netanyahu wanting to slaughter as many civilians as possible. Hezbollah has threatened to intercede should Israel go into Rafah leading to a regional war which Israel and the US are unlikely to win. The US has insufficient military assets in the region to do much in an all out war and is likely to come off as impotent while much of Israeli infrastructure will be destroyed. Already it is claimed that 500k Israeli citizens have left and should the war expand, another million or more are expected to leave. There’s no easy choices here, but the risks incurred by entering Rafah isn’t worth it imo. But Netanyahu might do it anyway to save his political skin.
Biden and his supporters keep demonstrating how much of their agendas and narratives are exposing their rank hypcocrisy.
As for Netanyahu, he is done. He will follow in Churchill's footsteps and disappear after completing this war. I believe he knows that, so he has no problem being intransigent. Regardless of whether the Shin Bet or the Mossad was at fault, the worst attack in Israel's history occurred on his watch. He needs to step down gracefully when the war-fighting phase concludes. If not, he will be forced out by politics; it will be ugly, and that is what he will be remembered for. He was the PM during the worst terrorist attack in Israel's history and a bloody fight for power when the war was over. I personally like him as a leader, but his time is done. He may be the FDR of Israeli history, but no leader will be allowed to serve as long as he has again.
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Secure the border ???
Joe youre a rasis !!!
No, Egypt wants nothing to do with that Tar Baby. The West Bank was administered by Jordan until they lost the 1967 war. They also then cut all ties with the West Bank.
Hezbollah says: Enter Gaza we will attack...wait, if you enter Gaza City we will attack.....okay, okay, we are serious now, if you enter the Al Shifa hospital compound we will attack...wait, okay, this is the red line, final warning do not attack Khan Yunis...That is it; we are pissed now; only Rafah is left if you take Rafah, we will fight you. Sometime in April, you will hear Hezbollah say if you do not withdraw from Gaza and allow the UN to Administer it, we will get really, really mad at you.
Many Israelis hold dual citizenship; if 500k have left, they will return after the war. They still pay taxes and are still citizens. That said, how many military reserve Israelis with exemptions could have avoided the fight but instead returned to Israel to fight Hamas?
The DOD has the assets; the real problem is how much of our assets we wasted in Ukraine.
Why is everyone so upset that Israel is actually fighting a war? Not the BS we did in Iraq and Afghanistan that wasted so many precious lives. Not the hearts and minds BS in Vietnam, the WWII mindset. The objective was to defeat Germany and Japan, and nobody went home until it was done. Even now, Israel is restraining itself. If they conducted a total war, Hamas would have been destroyed months ago. If I were Israel, the next time a Western Country whines about Hamas casualty figures, I would remind the West about Dresden, Tokyo, and Hiroshima. Dresden alone had around 30,000 civilians, but because of undocumented refugees, the number could have gone as high as 250,000—Tokyo firebombing; 100,000 dead. Just those two attacks alone accounted for between 130,000 civilian casualties and 350,000 civilian casualties.
Hamas has to be destroyed. They have four fully functional Battalions left in Rafah; they must be destroyed as a fighting force before Israel is safe and the Gazans can have peace themselves.
“the next time a Western Country whines about Hamas casualty figures”
75% of those killed were women and children - not Hamas. Where do you get your info, the Zionist propaganda site Frontpage mag? I don’t particularly care what Israel does as long as it doesn’t effect US interests in a negative way. Well we are at that point now where our relationship with Israel is most definitely hurting our global interests. It’s the tail wagging the dog and many Americans are getting sick of the fact that AIPAC has corrupted most of our politicians to do their bidding. This is all coming to a head and you can thank Netanyahu for that. Why do you think Schumer came forward the other day? It’s because he knows Netanyahu has gone too far threatening US interests in the region and must be restrained.
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