Posted on 04/13/2024 9:47:28 PM PDT by bitt
President Biden told Israeli Prime Minister that nothing of “value” was hit in Iran’s airborne attack Saturday and asserted American forces will not be participating in any offensive against Iran, according to a report.
The president called Israel’s defense during the attacks a win — telling Netanyahu Israel’s ability to intercept nearly all of the hundreds of missiles and drones showed its military superiority, a US official told CNN.
Biden also made it very clear that the US would not be engaging in any military offensive against the Islamic Republic, the senior official told the channel
Israeli Defense Forces said it had shot down the “vast majority” of projectiles outside of Israel’s borders. It was assisted by the US military.
“At my direction, to support the defense of Israel, the U.S. military moved aircraft and ballistic missile defense destroyers to the region over the course of the past week,” Biden said in a statement Saturday night after his phone call with the Israeli leader, according to readout of the call released by the White House.
“Thanks to these deployments and the extraordinary skill of our servicemembers, we helped Israel take down nearly all of the incoming drones and missiles,” he added.
A handful of missiles made it through, with one striking an Israeli base, but damages were minor and no injuries were reported, according to IDF officials.
A senior US official told CNN that the US forces intercepted more than 70 drones and at least three ballistic missiles. The missiles were shot down by two guided missile destroyers deployed in the eastern Mediterranean.
US fighter jets also helped defend Israel from the barrage, another official told the outlet.
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Biden...,..
LOL 🤣😆
What a joke
Biden makes it clear to Iran that the US won’t do much to defend against or deter Iran from attacking Israel.
Yes, from The Bee: . . . Biden Buries Iran Under Dollar Bills
How many pallets of cash does it take to buy 300 defective missiles? They shot and missed.
Telling an enemy...don't worry...we're not gonna get ya...is inconceivable.
Shut your damn mouth.
The guy is an idiot.
Maybe he will send plane loads of illegals to them!
Which may be part of the whole thing.
Test your enemy’s defenses first.
He’s a puppet.
I don’t think he really has a clue what’s going on.
He can’t do that as the left keeps telling us how much of a benefit to all that illegals are.
Will Biden finally become the president who lost the Middle East? I always say if that ever happens, a democrat will be behind it.
Furthermore, this sends a message to our allies that you cannot count on America. We are a toothless tiger.
The astounding thing is that the decisions being made by Joe’s puppeteers are about as stupid as one would expect from someone in the latter stages of dementia.
Yes. And, part was for show - some of the drones apparently had lighting.
Some of the drones were probably instrumented - feeding data about the electronic systems that they encountered, back to Iran/Russia/China.
Kind of makes me wonder what S. Korea and Taiwan will do now that the message is that their neighbors are allowed to have one free attack.
Iran is just showing off. And they asked out permission. It’s all stagecraft.
Yup. We are going to see more and more rockets and missile flying until Trump puts an end to this aggressive military mayhem.
Really? What a terrible comment: A little girl (some reports say 7 years old, some say 10 years old) was severely injured by shrapnel.
It's certainly true that damage overall was much more limited than might have been expected. But it's abhorrent to say that nothing of value was hit.
The best thing Israel could do at this point is resolve to obliterate Iran’s nuclear program. Just take the whole thing out and set them back decades or more.
In other words, you blocked the punches, and that’s enough. Don’t strike back.
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