Posted on 03/22/2024 11:53:44 AM PDT by SJackson
TEL AVIV, March 22 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the top U.S. diplomat on Friday that Israel was prepared to "do it alone" if Washington opposes its plans for an assault on Rafah, the Gaza city where more than a million displaced Palestinians are sheltering.
Blinken met one-on-one with Netanyahu during a peace mission to the Middle East at a time of evident strain in U.S.-Israeli relations with little precedent in their 75-year-old alliance.
Netanyahu said he told Blinken he appreciated U.S. support in its fight against Hamas and that Israel recognises it needs to protect civilians. However, he reiterated plans to push into Rafah, against the territory's southern border fence, where more than a million Gazans have taken refuge in makeshift shelters.
"I also said that we have no way to defeat Hamas without going into Rafah and eliminating the rest of the battalions there. And I told him that I hope we will do it with the support of the U.S., but if we have to - we will do it alone," he said in a video statement to reporters.
Israel says Rafah is the last bastion for Hamas militants, and that it has a plan to evacuate civilians before an attack. Washington says a ground assault would be a "mistake" and cause too much harm to those displaced there.
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Israel really doesn’t have a chose.
Biden and the Democrats chose the rabid Muslim members of their parties and the anti-Semitic leftists over the Jewish people.
Hopefully, the Jewish Americans see this.
Where do I send my donation? I’ve already made an “In Kind” donation, there are some bleached white Palestinian bones out in the Arabian desert.
choice!
Me, too. We used to call it Arab hunting.
You instantly knew they were foreign terrorists if they were Arab. They didn’t belong there.
Saving civilization. Go IDF
As you should.
but if we have to - we will do it alone,” he said in a video statement to reporters. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
And on a par with continuing foreign fu*k ups, Buiden will witthdraw support and that will make the war far more bloody. on both sides.
Biden and Blinken are both psychopomps....they have no idea how to conduct humane foreign policy.
A humane policy would have been to support Israel tio the nines and have the war over with in short order.
WHat Biden and Blinken are doing is dragging it out needlessly.
This guy was a Palestinian interpreter. After a few incidents (one in which I broke one of his ribs with my 9 MM) I refused to take him with me. He would sit around at night spouting Baghdad Betty BS: You will all die in rivers of blood and Bart Simpson will take your widows....
He disappeared the day before the ground war started.
Not alone. God is with you🙏
“made an ‘In Kind’
donation”
Thank you for your service.
Biden and Obummer choose muslim over jews plus will do anything for votes.... including selling out Israel and Americans. We have 8 more months before we can take America back with an election... Can we wait 8 more months and survive the damage they will do to America and to American citizens?
You have my approval.
Wipe them out.
Thanks for posting. He is with them and it is a God thing...
Just do it, what is taking so long? It is now 167 days since October 7, 2023. Israelis and Americans are still held hostage, HAMAS is now being resupplied by the US.
This is Reuters, but Israel needs new friends and a source for weapons.
Have we now sc***** that up??
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