Posted on 03/16/2024 9:22:14 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
WASHINGTON — The White House is considering options for how to respond if Israel defies President Joe Biden’s repeated warnings against launching a military invasion of Rafah without a credible plan to protect Palestinian civilians, according to one former and three current U.S. officials.
The discussions are taking place amid growing concern in the administration and frustration among congressional Democrats that the president’s pleas will simply be ignored. Israel this week inched closer to initiating an incursion into the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip.
The Biden administration set a March 24 deadline for Israel to provide written assurance, followed by U.S. government review, that its use of American weapons is in accordance with international law. Failing to comply could force the issue of military support and potentially push the longtime alliance into new territory.
Top administration officials indicated Friday they had not seen any plans for the military operation in Rafah that Israel said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had approved, nor had they seen a proposal for the evacuation of Palestinian civilians. For weeks, administration officials have privately expressed skepticism that Israel had developed a thorough plan for a military offensive in Rafah, saying that the threat of an invasion was to maintain leverage with Hamas during negotiations for a cease-fire in exchange for releasing hostages held in Gaza.
Administration officials also have advised the Israeli government to avoid a large military operation in Rafah, and instead launch smaller, targeted counterterrorism missions, according to an administration official.
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“without a credible plan to protect Palestinian civilians..”
There are no civilians in Gaza.
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Israel needs to ignore Pedo Joe and the KKK kill the Jews Democrats and wipe these terrorists off the face of the earth then salt the land.
The chutzpah of the schmuck!
In the early 1980s, the Reagan Administration was trying to get Israel to ‘understand their place’ in the ‘order of things’. Israel responded by essentially telling Reagan’s Israel-haters, Arabists at the State Department (which happened to be an earlier breed of Neocons), that, essentially, Israel is NOT a Banana Republic and to keep out of Israel’s affairs. And then, like magic, Reagan had a great relationship with Israel.
40 years later, I just heard the same thing from Israel regarding “Banana Republic”, so good to hear, but times are different and now, thanks to the (mostly) DNC Population Replacement Program, there are MILLIONS of new Americans who want Israel destroyed, likely more than the number of Jews (even though at least half of the Jews also want Israel destroyed, which was not the case back then).
So we’ll see what happens this time...
The us spent how many years in Iraq and Afghanistan on twice the dead on a terrorist attack? I think the usa needs to stfu.
“The White House is considering options for how to respond if Israel defies President Joe Biden’s repeated warnings against launching a military invasion of Rafah...”
Brandon? How about you STFU and continue your nefarious plans to destroy The Greatest Nation on Earth? Better yet? Pound sand on both counts!
The IDF has already entered Rafah like 2-3 days ago.
Defies Biden? Last I looked, Biden is the president of the US, not Israel. That country’s government is free to do whatever is necessary to protect its people and homeland.
Biden is setting himself up to getting called on his bluff and looking weak, again. Texas called his bluff, he quietly backed down. Although I believe his administration would gladly cut ties with Israel, in his few lucid moments each day, he knows siding with the terrorists will hurt him politically.
Maybe Israel should just empty all its prisons and send them here like every other proxy war state. Maybe that’s what Joey’s Big Float is for on the Gaza Coast?
“We would have all such offenders so cut off.” — Henry V
A one world government = One World Mess.
Biden is an ass.
Obama/Biden answer will be to ship Himars to Hamas, and umpteen barrels of Zyklon-B.
I read a week or so ago that Israel was building a tent city and providing other necessary accommodations to house a million plus residents. They will evacuate the willing before a full stage attack.
I have seen nothing since. Anyone?
Biden and Co contemplate their options, and in doing so contemplate bringing more judgment on America.
What the hell does biden have to say about how Israel conducts her business?
Of course not.
All Biden and Congress have to do is stop supporting Israel with American money and weapons.
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