Posted on 04/18/2024 5:33:40 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
The US has approved a potential Israeli Rafah operation in exchange for the Jewish state not conducting counterstrikes on Iran, according to a Thursday report from the Qatari newspaper The New Arab.
A senior official told The New Arab that "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu managed to obtain American approval for a military operation in Rafah, in exchange for [Israel] refraining from carrying out a wide military operation against Iran in response to its recent attack."
He claimed that "discourse of an Israeli response to Iran contradicts the desires of the American administration, and is not realistic, given the Israeli claims that the United States played the major role in repelling the Iranian attack and preventing its success."
The source noted that "the IDF carried out airstrikes [overnight on Thursday] on several areas adjacent to the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt," adding that "the relevant officials in Egypt were notified before the execution of some of these strikes, which came in the Philadelphi axis at a space adjacent to the border with Egypt.
The report comes among public statements from some Israeli officials expressing desire to retaliate against Iran, with a report published by the KAN broadcasting channel claimed that Israel's ambassador to the US, Michael Herzog, stated on Thursday that "Israel will react to Iran, and it won't take years - soon Iran's missiles will be equipped with nuclear warheads."
The Qatar report also noted that Egypt is exemplifying "full readiness and preparedness of [its] forces stationed in northern Sinai, along the 14-kilometer border strip with the Gaza Strip, as part of a plan to deal with the scenario of a ground invasion in Rafah."
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A full and complete Rafah offensive IS a counter-strike to Iran.
Why is the US orchestrating the military operations of the Israelis?
It makes NO SENSE.
The "Biden" regime is an amazing amalgam of ideologically motivated stupidity, corruption, and pathetic weakness.
What kind of world are we living in? I don’t understand....Whose country is it? Whose war is it?
“The US approves...”????!
Does anyone else find this “US approves” business abnormal?
IF SO, CAN WE MAKE BIBI SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE? He knows how to negotiate and is not a guiding.
Yup.
Netenyahu cares and fights for his Country unlike almost all the District of traitors.
Because war with Iran would send gas prices thru the roof screwing up Biden’s hoped for reelection.
He who pays the piper calls the tune.
Go thru Rafa like s4!t thru a goose then hit Iran
Imagine if we had GOP leaders who could negotiate like this?
It makes perfect sense. Israel can't stand on its own without massive U.S. support. It's always been that way. He who pays the piper . . . .
Bingo. Israel will prevail against all its enemies. YHVH has fortold this. Can a nation be formed in a day? Israel was.
Isaiah 66:8
8 Who has ever heard of such things? Who has ever seen things like this? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be brought forth in a moment? Yet no sooner is Zion in labor than she gives birth to her children.
I’d settle for GOP leaders who wouldn’t sell out the country like the ones we have now.
Even more amazing is that every individual member of the Biden regime seems to be an amalgam of ideologically motivated stupidity, corruption, and pathetic weakness.
Well stated. But you could have easily added "evil."
Why Iran’s attack on Israel was simple ‘Kinetic Diplomacy’
https://youtu.be/CxtlQBNIUZw?si=nnhUvynEpUCpWmPX
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