White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Monday that Israel will decide on its Gaza strategy in response to media reports that said the US was urging a delay to the ground invasion of Gaza.
The New York Times reported that the US advised delaying the ground offensive to buy time for hostage negotiations and allow more humanitarian aid to enter the besieged Gaza Strip. The report said the US also wanted more time to deploy additional military assets to the region as attacks on US forces are expected to increase once Israel invades Gaza.
Israel’s Army Radio reported Monday that Israel had decided to delay the invasion to allow more US forces to deploy to the region, but the report hasn’t been confirmed. According to The Times of Israel, Kirby said Israel’s political and military leaders will make the decisions on Israel’s Gaza operations and that the US is only asking questions. A source told The Times of Israel that the US does not intend to pressure Israel on its military strategy publicly.
The Times of Israel also reported that the Israeli military is eager to launch its ground invasion of Gaza and is hoping the Israeli cabinet will soon give the order. The report said that the military “has told the government that it is fully prepared for a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, and believes it can achieve the goals set out for it, even at the risk of heavy casualties to soldiers, and amid ongoing attacks by Hezbollah in the north.”
The Israeli military is concerned that if Hamas releases more hostages, it would lead to a delay in the ground invasion. They believe an invasion would pressure Hamas to release captives, although they could be killed in the fighting. Later on Monday, Hamas released two more hostages, two women ages 79 and 85.
Israel will decide the strategy, the US will just write a blank check for it. At least we would if we had a speaker! Partisan gridlock saves the day!
Well, not just write a check. The US is also sending two carrier strike groups and various other military units and reinforcing element already in the region.
Kick the tires but don’t light the fire…?
oh dear … your flowers are no match for uncle sam’s TV media
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that is a big ass check right there. tell you what.
before it is all over the US will indeed have written yet another check for that
speaker be damned ….
Correct.
They are all bad checks which will bounce.
There may be no one left to cash or pay the checks. The cash register is already empty. Biden is like a toddler writing checks never checking if there is money in the bank.
Israel will decide, but how does that work when Wash. pampers them with weapons of war? Sounds like Wash. is on board with the ‘dresden option’
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/10/21/israeli-attack-axis-gaza-dresden/
The Associated Press has quietly deleted
a reference to official Israeli threats to subject the Gaza Strip to a
Dresden-style firebombing campaign — the latest move in legacy media
outlets’ ongoing push to downplay the impacts of Tel Aviv’s siege of
over two million Palestinians.
Clearly shows who runs the Federal Reserve and the Whitehouse.
Gaza is under serious, disastrous conditions… I think it would be beyond stupidity and arrogance to believe that Israel could even possibly be discerning in any regard.
Biden could give a rip about humanitarian aid getting into Gaza or hostages- he’s buying time for the US getting firepower in the area to counter Hezbollah. Is any of this really worth the potential blowback that could affect us in the region- or at home? I think not.
His feeble mind believes that helping Israel exterminate thousands of Palestinians will get him re-elected.
This. Said it succinctly and better than I could.
You started with the the foundation.
He’s maneuvering for the next election. It’s not only as far as he can see, but for a man so possessed of the lust for power, it’s the only option. Doesn’t matter how many Palestinian children are slaughtered, as long as the ruling clique retain their hegemony. After all, there are masses of people out there who will produce more children, so what’s the problem?
As deranged as he is, that much he knows, he wants to rule the world, and the neocons rule him.
It is a global danger beyond the ME region, I believe they are after Iran and really fear Hezbollah involvement.
They are really insane.
You just don’t get it, do you ? Forget israel. Do you not understand that Iran and their Islamist minions are ideologically bent on destroying the west? And they have a great deal more determination, patience and zeal. It’s hard to accept on this side of the Atlantic since we have been essentially untouched. Even most Israelis did not fully realize until October 7 what their enemy intends and is capable of. Ignore them at your peril. The memory of near annihilation a mere 75 years ago is too fresh for the Jews. I watch and read Israeli media. What I hear from even Arab Israelis who do not want to live under a Hamas theocracy is that israel must speak with them in the “Arab language”. In other words, Hamas must be destroyed
Do you not understand that Iran and their Islamist minions are ideologically bent on destroying the west?
And the West hasn’t instigated any of that? Should I mention 1953 or the Shah or the sanctions or the nuke deal or the killing of the general or more sanctions or…..
The Iranian regime mainly seems to be interested in maintaining (and building on) its status as a regional power. If the US regime decided to fuck off and go home the problems would basically end there.
I agree. I figured that was another issue in itself and I decided to avoid it. All of our “enemies” are made up.
US enemies are not made up – they are actual guys who simply live on oil rich lands that uncle sam covets. enemies are not made up, they are actual guys who simply live on oil rich lands that uncle sam covets. wait, i just said that.
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It so happens the Palestinians have not forgotten 75 years of terror and suffering, Hamas is resistance and after Hamas there would be resistance with just another name. Honest and competent leaders would know that. Netanyahu and Biden are idiots and certainly not honest and competent leaders, they are a global danger, they want a war with Iran ignoring the change in Arab relationships.
Like Biden said, “we are the USA, we are the greatest, we don’t lose” He said it in other words, that is the meaning.
“Iran [is]…bent on destroying the west”?
Advance thanks for supporting an otherwise worthless claim.
For 75 years Israel has decided strategy.
Yes, but Israel could not get away with executing that strategy without the support of the US and its allies and minions. If Washington decided Israel should stop, Israel would have to stop pretty soon.
Well, Bibi is on a mission. One part of his is to rebuild the temple. The Red Heifer Project. They have the unblemished heifers ready to go. So,who knows what is in his mind other than exterminating the Palestinians.
Don’t you wish this batshit-crazy scheme was imaginary?
https://templeinstitute.org/red-heifer-introduction/
I just read your link, Dissident.
Holy shit.
Yeah. Holy shit.
Mmmmm…red heifer prime riiiib…
True but irrelevant, as the US hierarchy won’t cease the pursuit of absolute power. The Romans could only dream of the capacity to rain destruction down everywhere if they were not obeyed.
The Holocaust was always the club to get their way most of the time.
Cold Warriors frozen in time… They remind me of the Terracotta Warriors of China, beneath the ground and deaf to the world.
These people’s bodies and souls never grew, never matured.
They are devilish human failures.
White House Says Israel Will Decide on Gaza Strategy
right then. is that called “plausible deniability”, or simply “passing the buck”.
notice my lack of question-marks.
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I think it’s implausible deniability, but they don’t care. They don’t have to.
Deniability or not, when everything is said and done it will be erased from memory. Just like “Cast lead” and the other assaults. Nothing will be done. Silence.
Maybe. But this time might be different. Israel and the US could push this to a point where Arab leaders would be compelled to act by their outraged populations. It will be surprising if Hezbollah doesn’t step in in a serious way. US and Israeli reaction to that could easily push Iran to a breaking point.
If more than one of those things happens, it will be quite some time before anyone forgets the resulting carnage.
If there is a ground assault, Hezbollah will have to act or risk losing all credibility. All bets are off if that happens.
Yup.
Hezbollah would be wise to stay out of it.
freakin uncle shmuel has been itching for a reason to take over the Litani River, (Lebanon’s water) – a foolish move on Hezbollah’s part would give the “moral authority” justification to invade and seize.
edit) = don’t think that they wouldn’t …
“silence” = what
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Cowards galore.
That is saying that Netanyahu is in charge!!! At least we now know who is responsible for the catastrophe. Thanks a lot, WH.
Reasons #1 humanitarianism and #2 concern for hostages are just PR. Reason #3 Imperial military staging is real and a real big problem given the depleted state of readiness of both manpower and arsenal.
And most important they lack simple common sense and human decency and a moral compass.
Nothing “common” about what we’re about to witness, daylight genocide, Israel’s final obscenity … the “Dresden strategy”.
Ben Guiron decided for Ben Gvir, Feiglin, Netanyahu, Herzog, Dershowitz, and ADL years ago.
Ben Morris decided for Israeli left, leftist Zionist, US Democrats, Holloywwod woke , and for those who listen to the anti -Arab ,anti -Palestinian polemic from Fox with riveted attention but complain of uneasiness and distress from presence of speaker like Roger Waters or Marc Lamont Hill in the college campuses .
Violent and manufactured ethnic cleansing – “Morris argued that in “normal” times, such policies may be immoral — but in “apocalyptic circumstances,” they may be both moral, “reasonable,” and “even essential.” Mondoweiss
Israel’s Army Radio reported Monday that Israel had decided to delay the invasion to allow more US forces to deploy to the region, but the report hasn’t been confirmed.
Because it’s bullshit. Israel won’t do an invasion until Gaza is leveled. The cowardly IDF can only shoot fish in a barrel.
Actually, US Marine Scott Ritter did an extremely enlightening interview. He maintains that the IDF reserves are scared shitless of Hamas, because as Ritter notes, they “are only trained to beat up 10-year-olds in the West Bank.” Which is why there has not been a ground invasion yet launched: “It ain’t the weather!”” Additionally, Mr. Ritter claims that over a million Iranians have signed up to fight alongside the Palestinians in the event of a ground attack, as well as tens of thousands of Malaysians.
“…John Kirby said Monday that Israel will decide on its Gaza strategy…”
Yes, I’m sure. With American intel, satellite imagery, ammunition, refuelling and standoff air support, equipment, “trainers” and “advisors”, and Operation Veto Shield at the UNSC.
Apart from THAT, it’s PM Netanyahu’s call whether to invade now, invade with the help of General Winter, or make a Spring Offensive when the ground thaws. Or all three. At LEAST one.
Netanyahu’s intend to invade Iran goes back decades, the same is true of deranged Biden.
Their pathological insane mental conditions prevent any Realpolitik, which requires common sense and simple character and decency.
The world is in deep trouble with people like that in power.