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| Biden Attempts to Pressure Netanyahu |
by Daniel Greenfield: In utterly unsurprising news, the Biden administration is going the usual route in response to Hamas attacks on Israel.
1. Pressuring Israel behind the scenes into accepting a Hamas "cease-fire" which just means restarting this conflict when the terrorists get more Iranian rockets to shoot off.
2. Accusing Israel of "destabilizing the region" which as everyone knows is very stable.
3. Supporting the UN's campaign against Israel out of one side of its mouth while promising to support Israel out of the other
4. Bail out Hamas
Here's the
mainstream media workup of this sort of thing.
The Biden administration is increasingly hopeful that the deadly conflict between Israel and Palestinian militants is in its final stages, and U.S. officials are confident their mostly behind-the-scenes intervention helped avert an early Israeli ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.This is par for the course.
American officials have privately urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his aides to wind down his country's operations against the Gaza Strip... At the start, the person familiar with the situation said, Israel appeared on the verge of pushing forth with a ground invasion, a move that could have led to significantly more bloodshed and possibly a longer conflict. U.S. influence was important in preventing a ground operation, the person said.Wind down, that is to say, bail out Hamas. Also bail out Hamas, literally.
That being said, the Biden administration and others already are looking at ways to send in humanitarian assistance to Gaza, a densely packed seaside territory of 2 million people.How much of that "humanitarian assistance" will go to Hamas? Assume that plenty of it will in one way or another.
On Monday, Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, conveyed a sense of urgency when he warned that the longer the conflict drags on, the more it risks destabilizing the region.
"It's in no one's interest to continue fighting," Milley said.This is a region with multiple civil wars and insurgencies, in which Iran's proxies are bombing Saudi Arabia out of Yemen, Syria's Shiite government is bombing the Sunnis, Turkey is in the midst of a prolonged campaign against the Kurds, Iraq is on the verge of another civil war, Libya is in a permanent state of civil war...and I could go on. But it's the Israelis who are destabilizing the region because of a brief campaign against Hamas terrorists.
And, oh yes, don't expect the Biden administration to back up Israel on the Hamas building bombing.
Israel's operations drew heightened criticism in recent days after its armed forces leveled a building that housed several media offices, including that of The Associated Press. Israel – which warned people to evacuate the building about an hour before striking it – has said it has shared information with the United States showing that Hamas based some of its assets in that facility.
The person familiar with the situation confirmed that Israel has shared some classified intelligence with America about the building, but declined to characterize it other than to say it suggested the Hamas presence was significant, including involving operational activity. The United States has told Israel that it should share more information publicly about this intelligence.Sure. Share that classified information publicly. Don't expect us to vouch for you.
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Daniel Greenfield writes for FrontPage Mag.
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