of washington post On Wednesday, the Biden administration released a report saying it could restrict arms transfers to Israel if it attacks the remaining four Hamas battalions in the Egyptian border city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that to destroy Hamas and win the war, Israel must enter Rafah. His wartime cabinet is considering plans to evacuate Palestinian civilians from the northern part of the city before a military operation.
Columnist David Ignatius is known as a source of information for government officials. published This story was probably leaked from the White House:
The Biden administration is concerned about another humanitarian catastrophe and appears to be considering ways to prevent the use of American weapons if Israel attacks the populated areas around the city of Rafah.
President Biden and his senior advisers have not made any decisions about imposing “conditions” on U.S. weapons. But the very fact that officials appear to be discussing this extreme step indicates the administration’s growing concern about the Gaza crisis and its sharp disagreements with Israeli leaders over the Rafah attack.
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The heightened tensions with Prime Minister Netanyahu stem from Biden’s feeling that Israel is not heeding U.S. warnings and advice and that relations between the U.S. and Israel have become one-sided. The administration feels that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not responding to U.S. demands while supporting Israeli interests at great political cost at home and abroad. Israel insists that any space between U.S. and Israeli policies will only benefit Hamas. But Israel will not compromise to close the gap.
There is a belief within the regime – at least in the Ignatius report – that if Hamas is allowed to survive in Rafah, the entire Israeli war effort is doomed to failure because Hamas will survive and rally. There doesn’t seem to be any concern.
Nor does it appear that the best humanitarian outcome would be for Israel to end the war early, rather than prolonging the conflict by pausing or delaying action against the terrorist groups that started it. is.
President Biden has privately predicted a hostage deal with Hamas by Monday of this week, which would result in a pause in fighting for about six weeks.Hamas on Thursday left Without signing any agreement, he went to Cairo, Egypt.
Israel had previously set March 10, the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, as the deadline for an agreement. (The Israeli government tells Muslims around the world,ramadan kAlemThursday’s “Generous Ramadan”).
Like the Obama administration before it, the Biden administration’s insistence on what it interprets as Israel’s steadfastness is simply that Israel is dealing with reality, while the White House is still dealing with wishful thinking. Maybe I’m just doing it.
The Biden administration is also believed to be responding to domestic pressure, including anti-Israel protests by members of the administration and threats by Muslim voters in key battleground states not to support Biden in the 2024 election.
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