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Amid deepening tensions, White House weighs how to respond if Israel defies Biden with Rafah invasion
NBC via Yahoo ^ | March 16, 2024 | Monica Alba, Courtney Kube, Jonathan Allen, Carol E. Lee, Andrea Mitchell, Kelly O'Donnell, etc.

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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To: Mr. Mojo

“without a credible plan to protect Palestinian civilians..”

There are no civilians in Gaza.

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21 posted on 03/16/2024 9:44:33 AM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

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.


22 posted on 03/16/2024 9:48:10 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: dforest

The chutzpah of the schmuck!


23 posted on 03/16/2024 9:49:24 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Mr. Mojo

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...


24 posted on 03/16/2024 9:50:14 AM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone)
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To: Mr. Mojo

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.


25 posted on 03/16/2024 9:53:07 AM PDT by wgmalabama (Censored!)
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To: Mr. Mojo

“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!


26 posted on 03/16/2024 9:55:24 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: Mr. Mojo

The IDF has already entered Rafah like 2-3 days ago.


27 posted on 03/16/2024 9:57:19 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Mr. Mojo

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.


28 posted on 03/16/2024 9:58:12 AM PDT by Avalon Memories (Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats. -- P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: Mr. Mojo

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.


29 posted on 03/16/2024 10:00:47 AM PDT by Yogafist
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To: Mr. Mojo

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?


30 posted on 03/16/2024 10:02:39 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: Bonemaker

“We would have all such offenders so cut off.” — Henry V


31 posted on 03/16/2024 10:02:50 AM PDT by fabjr60 ("I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own.")
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To: Mr. Mojo

A one world government = One World Mess.


32 posted on 03/16/2024 10:03:28 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Biden is an ass.


33 posted on 03/16/2024 10:06:56 AM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.)
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To: Mr. Mojo

Obama/Biden answer will be to ship Himars to Hamas, and umpteen barrels of Zyklon-B.


34 posted on 03/16/2024 10:07:39 AM PDT by Quentin Quarantino
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To: Mr. Mojo

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?


35 posted on 03/16/2024 10:08:03 AM PDT by elpadre
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To: Mr. Mojo

Biden and Co contemplate their options, and in doing so contemplate bringing more judgment on America.


36 posted on 03/16/2024 10:14:22 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: Mr. Mojo

What the hell does biden have to say about how Israel conducts her business?


37 posted on 03/16/2024 10:14:57 AM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump. A)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Biden may have a red line for Israel......but what will he do? Attack Israel? Send our F-15s to attack Tel-Aviv?

Of course not.

All Biden and Congress have to do is stop supporting Israel with American money and weapons.

38 posted on 03/16/2024 10:15:30 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: HIDEK6
What the hell does biden have to say about how Israel conducts her business with the money and weapons we give them?
39 posted on 03/16/2024 10:16:55 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Bonemaker

😂


40 posted on 03/16/2024 10:26:41 AM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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