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US officials said advising Israel to delay Gaza ground op to allow hostage talks
Times of Israel ^ | 10/23/2023 | Toi Staff

Posted on 10/23/2023 4:36:14 AM PDT by fruser1

The White House wants Israel to delay its ground operation in the Gaza Strip to allow more time for negotiations to release the hostages held by terrorists there and for aid to enter the Palestinian enclave, several unnamed US officials told The New York Times.

Officials said that the US is not asking Israel to abort the ground invasion but is advising it to wait, and that Washington still fully supports Israel’s aim to destroy Hamas in the wake of the deadly onslaught.

Nonetheless, four senior Israeli defense officials told the Times the ground invasion has been repeatedly put off and they don’t know the reason why. Two suggested the wait was due to hostage negotiations.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: appeasement; biden; bidenvoters; dementiajoe; gaza; gazagroundop; hamas; hamaswar; hostages; israel
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They should keep in mind it's not just the current set of hostages, but hostages to be taken in the future.

The more they delay, the more Hamas digs in and the more likely we're just extending the never ending conflict.

1 posted on 10/23/2023 4:36:14 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: fruser1

Not no but hell no!


2 posted on 10/23/2023 4:40:20 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (There are only two sexes but there are 57 different types of queers.)
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To: fruser1

How long is it going to take Netanyahu to figure out that Biden’s minions, Hamas, and the Qataris are just stringing him along to make it harder for the Israelis to finally enter Gaza and take care of business?


3 posted on 10/23/2023 4:41:42 AM PDT by Timber Rattler ("To hold a pen is to be at war." --Voltaire)
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To: fruser1

How about one “humanitarian” aid truck allowed in for every 10 hostages released? Then up the ante the longer they delay.


4 posted on 10/23/2023 4:43:24 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: fruser1

In reality, it just allows Hamas the opportunity to spread the hostages out and set traps for the Israeli soldiers.


5 posted on 10/23/2023 4:46:02 AM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: fruser1
Yeh...like Israel doesn't know what it's doing.

Joe...MYOB

6 posted on 10/23/2023 4:46:39 AM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: fruser1

So true... when you catch the other guy flat footed (or get into a vulnerable position) that’s NO time to give him a break!!!


7 posted on 10/23/2023 4:47:17 AM PDT by SMARTY (“Libhttps://freerepublic.com/focus/f-cheralism is totalitarianism with a human face.” Thomas Sowell)
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To: fruser1

I figured this is why Israel hasn’t gone in yet is because our communist government is covering for the terrorists. You can count on this government to always do the wrong and evil thing.


8 posted on 10/23/2023 4:49:19 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: fruser1

After the intelligence failure, Israeli public will not approve of delay. More time for Iran dirty tricks and Hamas booby traps.


9 posted on 10/23/2023 4:51:34 AM PDT by FlyingEagle
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10 posted on 10/23/2023 4:53:35 AM PDT by Manic_Episode (A government of the government, by the government, for the government)
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To: fruser1

It’s not just that, it also gives the hipster lefties time to cement their narrative that this is not, in fact, a war, but is a “Genocide” being perpetrated against the innocent, and oppressed Palestinians.

Anyone taking bets on just how long it is before there is an emergency session of the UN to rescind Resolution 181, which created Israel in the first place?


11 posted on 10/23/2023 4:54:15 AM PDT by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: Timber Rattler
Officials said that the US is not asking Israel to abort the ground invasion..

Asking? No, demanding! Israel has been ordered to stand down their ground offensive.

When the Biden entourage arrived last week (and Joe was sucking from a sippy-cup,) Valerie Jarret was laying the wood to Biby.

She told him , in no uncertain terms, that our two carrier groups weren't off shore to protect but to constrain Israel.

12 posted on 10/23/2023 4:54:21 AM PDT by Thommas (The snout of the camel is already under the tent.)
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To: fruser1

Biden advises Israel to do what they are already doing


13 posted on 10/23/2023 4:59:52 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
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To: airborne
Speaking of Hamas, get a load of this...

Explosive revelation: Hamas chief, who ran terror groups in West Bank, got govt discount to buy home in London

14 posted on 10/23/2023 5:02:05 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: Timber Rattler

I will argue that the IDF doesn’t really need to send in troops on the ground when they are effectively destroying Hamas from the air, artillery and naval gunfire.

Israel is not playing the old game that Iran and the world expected. Hamas infrastructure in the form of Gaza is being destroyed. The “Refugee Camps” that were in effect Hamas territory within the Gaza territory are gone.

Israel is playing and effectively winning a new game the world hasn’t caught on to yet.


15 posted on 10/23/2023 5:07:24 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
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To: Timber Rattler; Ultra Sonic 007
It’s funny how quickly things change for the war cheerleaders in the political/media world and right here on FR.

Two weeks ago, all I heard from those corners was that “this is our war, too!”

Now that the incompetent losers running this country aren’t waging “our war” the way these war cheerleaders want it to be carried out, they’re suddenly claiming that the U.S. has no business interfering in Israel’s operations over there. LOL.

16 posted on 10/23/2023 5:13:04 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: fruser1

Nah, they just don’t want a ground op that causes all the muslim terrorist groups surrounding Israel to attack. Israel doesn’t have the manpower to fend off Hamas, Hezbollah, and Al-nusra etc attacking from Jordan.


17 posted on 10/23/2023 5:14:03 AM PDT by struggle
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To: All

Boo hoo hoo
Video
A Palestinian man celebrates on the streets of Gaza as Hamas fires rockets over his head toward Israel.
Soon after, he posts a video of himself crying in a hospital after an Israeli airstrike
https://rumble.com/v3r1eta-a-palestinian-man-celebrates-hamas-rocket-fire-then-cries-at-hospital.html


18 posted on 10/23/2023 5:14:33 AM PDT by janetjanet998 (Legacy media including youtube are the enemy of the people and must die)
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To: Thommas

> Asking? No, demanding! <

You’re probably right. Israel depends on the United States for a lot of things.
Financial aid, military equipment, etc.
And as the old saying goes, He who pays the piper calls the tune.


19 posted on 10/23/2023 5:20:08 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: fruser1; bitt

so is brandon getting his advice from robert malley & his other iranian apparachniks?


20 posted on 10/23/2023 5:20:35 AM PDT by thinden (buckle up ....)
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