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First, Secretary of State Blinken spent eight hours meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu and the wartime cabinet of the unity government at a military base in Tel Aviv.
Eight hours.
I’m not sure what there was to hash out in that time. Blinken already got Israel to begin providing water to Gaza again (despite misleading claims by the media and on social media, Israel does not provide the majority of Gaza’s water, cutting it off doesn’t mean the cutoff of the Hamas territory’s water) and make life easier for those inside.
Every Biden official, including the Secretary of Defense, has already lectured Israel about the laws of war and civilian casualties, as if those could be avoided when fighting terrorists who operate among a civilian population. And when the line between the two is ambiguous.
But now there’s more of it.
“He’ll be asking some tough questions. He’ll be asking them as a friend, as a true friend of Israel,” national security spokesperson John Kirby told reporters en route to Tel Aviv.
“By tough questions I don’t mean menacing or in any way adversarial. Just hard questions that a good friend of Israel would ask about where they think they are going, what their plans are going forward,” Kirby said.
Biden plans to discuss with the Israelis the situation on the ground, their objectives and intentions and the need to deter any actor, state or terrorist group from widening the conflict. He also wants to ask the prime minister and war cabinet what they believe their needs are from a security perspective as the White House mulls over an aid package for the country to ask Congress to pass.
Biden will also discuss the hostages held by Hamas, which includes some American citizens, and how to address the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
These are things that are hashed out by people like Blinken. There have been plenty of phone calls back and forth. That’s not what the “tough questions” are for. Tough means pressure. It means push Israel to do things and we have a pretty good idea of what those things are. Or what would require an 8-hour session with Blinken.
There are 3 things on the table here.
1. The Biden administration would like to wrap the war up quickly and cleanly. That may mean pulling out (as usual) and going back to negotiating with Hamas.
2. There may be a bit of a shift in the wind in D.C. and they’re ready to sign off on an end to Hamas… because they see this as a way of getting the Two-State Solution back on track. And the emphasis now is on how Fatah can take over the Gaza Strip afterward.
3. Concern over Hezbollah, Iran’s PMU’s in Iraq and other Shiite forces getting involved in the war.
It’s speculative, but knowing how D.C. thinks, I suspect point number two is taking up a lot of the time and energy, which is a classic case of counting chickens before they’ve hatched.
I would venture a guess that the plan out of D.C. is that Israel defeat Hamas with a minimum of civilian casualties, clear the way for Fatah (aka the PLO, Palestinian Authority) which is just another bunch of terrorists to take over, while keeping Hezbollah and Iran out of it. And the Biden administration, having come up with this plan, now expects Israel to figure out how to carry it out.
I’m sorry but, any time someone spends that much time telling you how much they’re your “friend”, they are not…and they suck at poker. Biden’s looking for a reason to keep all aid money for his favorite laundromat Ukraine and for a reason to outwardly justify support of the Palestinian people.
Netanyahu knows who his American friends are. “Trump Heights” is a Israeli settlement in the Golan. There is no “Biden Basement” settlement on the drawing board.
Biden wanted a percentage of the gross amount of US aid, and figured he looked presidential by flying into a conflict zone. The fact that every leader other than Netanyahu cancelled on him defeated his political purpose.
I am posting link to Caroline Glick video from yesterday which is IMO ominous. Biden administration, despite his visit and hugging, seems to want to be a final solution for Israel – and I just picked my words very carefully. https://youtu.be/9xwPA57xOXA?si=Aa7_i9hqkv1OE7nn
I watched it yesterday. That 8 hour meeting was about threatening to withhold those bunker busters so necessary to deal with those tunnels that have been built throughout Gaza, as well as other ammunitions that the US has promised it’s ‘ally’ Israel, unless Israel does what? The idea that we are stalling Israel and withholding what we promised to them gives you an idea of what the US leftist gov sees as an ‘equitable’ solution. The ideas promulgate are much more towards appeasement and wanting to create a ceasefire….
I saw Glick on TV yesterday. Newsmax or Real America’s Voice. I bounce between the two. Her commentary was very interesting. She was talking about Israel and Hamas.
I enjoy seeing FPM people on TV. I saw Horowitz the other day, too. I’ve seen Greenfield, too. He’s a good speaker.
So basically the warships and the British jets are there as enforcement, not so much for support. I had a bad feeling when I saw them… meanwhile obasturd gloats…
I think the war ships are there to threaten Israel, not the Guzzy Strip.
Joe Bite-Me’s tough question to Netanyahu: “Got any Depends, man?”
Whenever you see Depends Biden’s beady rat eyes, you just know he’s squeezing one out.
Just the notion that Biden will ask Netanyahu “tough questions” is laughable. Even if the questions are “tough,” who would take any questions from a somnolent, on-the-verge-of-drooling, notecard-reading Biden seriously? Certainly not Netanyahu. He doesn’t need input from Biden or his troupe of handlers; he only needs a show of support. In his statements this morning, Biden could barely act out such support — calling Hamas “the other team” responsible for the hospital bombing, and then calling for aid for the innocent in Gaza. Go ahead, Joe, ask those tough questions, if you can get Netanyahu’s ear.
Those JVs fumbled the ball, man
The “innocents” who keep electing Hamas. And chopping baby heads off.
FUCK ALL Paleosimians.
Biden and most of his party are simply delusional. They have no idea what they are doing. They have narratives that make them feel that they are the best, fairest, most compassionate people anywhere and adopt policies with disastrous results.
Netanyahu should lock up Biden in a Gaza tunnel filled with sewage and rats for the rest of his life.