Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Thursday told US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in televised remarks that Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza will continue for “more than several months.”
Sullivan traveled to Israel to discuss the “timetable” of the war, and there are signs that the Biden administration wants Israel to wrap things up more quickly, but the Israelis have shown no interest in taking the US advice.
“Hamas is a terrorist organization that built itself over a decade to fight Israel, and they built infrastructure under the ground and above the ground, and it is not easy to destroy them,” Gallant told Sullivan before a closed-door meeting.
“It will take and require a long period of time — it will last more than several months, but we will win and we will destroy them. So thank you once again for coming to Israel, for helping us, and for supporting us,” Gallant added.
US officials have said the US wants Israel to conclude the current phase of the war, which involves relentless airstrikes and a ground campaign, within a few weeks, then shift to more targeted strikes against Hamas. According to Axios, Sullivan told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel should “transition to the next lower intensity phase in a matter of weeks, not months.”
But there’s no sign the US is using any of the leverage it has over Israel to achieve that end as US officials continue to promise unconditional military support. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Sullivan “asked hard questions about what the next phase is going to look like” but did not dictate “terms to the Israelis about how long it has to take.” Kirby added that the war has “to take as long as they feel they need to take.”
In just over two months, the US-backed Israeli massacre has killed over 18,000 Palestinians, including over 7,000 children, displaced nearly 90% of Gaza’s population, and shattered the enclave’s healthcare system. President Biden labeled the Israeli campaign as “indiscriminate” this week but vowed to keep supporting it.
The US is fast becoming complicit in WAR CRIMES.
What do you mean becoming? The atrocities in Gaza has blood all over the hands of the American people. War crimes tribunals are required not just for Gaza, but the US atrocities in Ukraine and many other countries.
STOP THE GENOCIDE YOU ARE GUILTY OF. You must present “Genocide Joe” to the International Criminal Court.
And when i stop posting please understand i have been banned. You cannot speak truth to power, which of course Antiwar is in bed with, or they wouldn’t be allowed to exist.
You want change? this is where change begins. Speaking truth to those in power. Holding them to account for their crimes, which includes the crimes of this site. But we all know you cant because if you seriously threaten power they will kill you.
A ban is just simply Antiwar’s electronic killing of someone who speaks truth to power. I can only repeat if you want change this is where change will occur, but the price will be high. Power has shown it is uncaring, indiscriminate and brutal.
Talk about unprovoked stupidity.
“A ban is just simply Antiwar’s electronic killing of someone who speaks truth to power”
I guess that explains why you’re not banned at Antiwar.com then, right?
Oh, wait — I see that you decided to go back to violating our guidelines against attacks on Antiwar.com itself, specifically its ability to raise funds, by lying about us some more in your previous comment.
So despite you not “speaking truth to power,” you HAVE managed to get yourself “electronically killed” here, after a number of warnings to stop grabbing the electric fence with both hands. Goodbye.
The best way to prove the OP wrong is by not banning him.
It’s not my job to “prove the OP wrong.”
My job is to enforce the site’s guidelines.
Since he was a regular commenter, most of whose comments didn’t violate the guidelines, he got several warnings.
And then he made his choice.
Then why ban him? Democracy needs people like him and should not fear them.
MSM is severely controlled and it shows, it is breaking the back of democracy.
I just explained why I banned him.
Antiwar.com has rules for the use of its site.
He violated those rules. Multiple times, and continuing after multiple warnings.
If “democracy” needs him, then I guess he has more free time to give to it now.
I can see your point too, it is a debatable topic.
Sometimes one has to make hard decision to protect the system.
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Something is lost here in translation.
He was warned multiple times for the same thing — attack on Antiwar.com?
Or was he warned for OTHER policy violations AND than he started his Antiwar.com rants?
These are stressful times, with people feeling confused , abandoned and shocked by our government participation in the worst war crimes in our living memory.
I very much support the policy. Attacking antiwar.com is cutting the branch we are sitting on. This site is well worth protecting and supporting,
Thank you, and hang in there!
“Or was he warned for OTHER policy violations AND than he started his Antiwar.com rants?”
To the best of my recollection, he was never warned for other policy violations. He may have never had a comment deleted.
His modus operandi was to say X, assert that he assumed saying X would get him banned, and then go off onto a rant about how he was obviously being suppressed at the behest of shadowy Antiwar.com financiers, even though what he was saying would otherwise not violate our guidelines or get him banned.
It was kind of weird, to be honest.
The US is already complicit, in fact since the beginning decades ago, they protected and supported, financed the Zionists war crimes.
The US is already complicit in WAR CRIMES. It committed war crimes in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, in North Korea during the Korean War, in Japan by dropping two atomic bombs during WWII, in the Gulf War, the Iraq War, the war in Afghanistan, in the war against ISIS in Syria and Iraq, in Panama during HW Bush’s search for Noriega and by funding Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and supporting Israel’s wars.
You forgot wars in Balkans. Chopping up Yugoslavia, creating angels and monsters in the process to fuel multiple civil wars. Creating many states, funded secessionists.
And dumped depleted uranium for good measure.
Yugoslavia fell apart on its own once Tito died.
blame those who armed and supported rejectionist Hamas.
Wherever and whenever it happens, and it almost certainly will happen, the next 9-11 will be Joe Biden’s real legacy.
“In just over two months, the US-backed Israeli massacre has killed over 18,000 Palestinians, including over 7,000 children . . .”
These numbers are so out-of-date and so much devastation has happened since an update that they should be retired. When the missing are counted and the remains of the victims now buried in rubble are recovered (at least many of them), I will be absolutely astonished if the total fatalities aren’t 100,000 or more.
And the disease and starvation are just getting started.
I see the children death toll is 10,000 this morning. But apparently that “Isn’t Enough” that the ex-Obama official told the Arab hilal food truck vendor in New York. It was “four thousand isn’t enough” (dead children). So lets us not forget that he was adjudicating Israeli Palestinian issues in the Obama Administration. Obama gave the game away 4 me when he chose Rahm Emanue as his first appointment. I believe Rahm’s father was a member of an Israeli gang : The Irgun???
In any case Rahm Emanuel seems to have had a very strong affinity for Israel when appointed. Not very to find that someone who had responsibility for Israelis & Palestinian matters saying 4000 dead Palestinian children “Is not enough.”……..!!!!!!! Sounds like the uttering from a sick hateful mind…
No question about Rahm’s loyalties. And yes, his father, Benjamin, was a member of Irgun.
Stuart Seldowitz was the ex-Obama advisor tormenting the halal food vendor, and he was clearly dripping hatred. There are way too many like him. It’s disgusting.
When the blowback comes, and come it will, I just hope that whoever does the blowbacking understands that the US federal government follows the whims of a handful of billionaires, not the American people
9-11 was a false flag. It intended the make-over of the entire region which, with the exception of Iran, has been largely accomplished, … US doing the heavy lifting; Israel, the messy slaughter of the innocents. But there is an irony here in that after the ’67 slaughter Robert Kennedy’s approval of fighter jets for Israel provoked his assination.
Google , PERMANENT VERSION ISRAEL DID 9/11
Right, the old ADL is always on it with a fulsome chorus of “Victim”.
Gawd. 🙄
Palestinians cheered when Hamas displayed their female captives like so many bunch of trophies-now its
harsh payback.
Oh yeh. And Liel Hetzroni is the new Ann Frank.
I remember how all The West was outraged about supposed lack of respect for LGBT community in Russia, so they boycotted Olympic Winter Games in Sochi 2014 (by the way it was done on the eve of the bloody far-right coup in Kiev). Obviously, they believe the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is a minor offence comparing with not allowing gay parades.
How are the two related? Or were just dying to spout some anti-gay bullshit?
If you’ll get out from the bullshit, then, maybe, you see how those two different responses of US are related.
Please help me to “get out from the bullshit” and explain how those are related. You can’t because they aren’t and you’re just another phony Christian.
That’s exactly right!
How about latest. Buldozing a hospial with patients and medical staff in it.
Shades of Ukraine …
“… it will last more than several months, but we will win and we will destroy them.” Reminds one of Zelenskyy doesn’t it?
and “transition to the next lower intensity phase in a matter of weeks, not months” sounds like US officials with Ukraine – when political prescriptions were presented as military ones. And how did they work out in Ukraine?
In a previous post I wrote the US wasn’t isolating it was decomposing – I was wrong, taking a detailed look at this week’s UN vote self-destructing is more accurate.
Sorry, Sullivan. We need more time to genocide 2.2 million Palestinians. It takes time, bro. Don’t throw stones. It’s been almost 500 years, you have all those “smart bombs,” and you still haven’t managed to genocide all the American Indians.
The nation must get rid of the Zionists in D.C.
Better yet just get rid of D.C.
AIPAC should be forced to register as a foreign agent.
Israel is losing…So it’s making sure there ‘s enough body bags for all of its soldiers…!
So, for several more months the Israelis intend to starve and bomb Palestinians? Israelis have reached levels of depravity not seen since the 1940s. They are truly the “chosen” people — chosen to be the world’s pariahs for generations to come.
The voters are expected to honor Biden’s accomplishment and vote for him, the MFs expect us to vote for him, a demented MF of a president.
Excuse me, I have never been so outraged in all my life.
“I have never been so outraged in all my life” Where you alive when the 911 attack occurred?
9/11 was more surprising than outrageous.
9/11 does not compare to Ukraine, Gaza or Afghanistan and other such US actions like in Iraq, Libya, and Syria and still many more.
Yes I was.
I was outraged. That the blowback from CIA activities that I did not know about provoked the atrocity. I am outraged that since WWII we, the white house on the hill, have killed 5 million in various wars and skirmished, made 50 million refugees. You be I am outraged.
“killed 5 million”
More like 20 million.
Where was your outrage at the cavortings of the Hamas rape gangs.
Where is the evidence? Produce the evidence and come back.
Why do you support the brutal, bestial Israeli occupation of Gaza and the WB?
“Hamas is a terrorist organization that built itself over a decade, with or help and encouragement, to fight Israel, and they built infrastructure under the ground and above the ground, and it is not easy to destroy them,” Gallant told Sullivan before a closed-door meeting.
Fixed
We, the people in the US and Israel, are governed by a terrorist, criminal organization. All of the officials in both parties are war criminals, every one of them.
Spot on!
US officials have said the US wants Israel to conclude the current phase of the war, which involves relentless airstrikes and a ground campaign, within a few weeks, then shift to more targeted strikes against Hamas.
(For arguments sake let’s say a “few” is 2)
A dead child every 10 minutes is 6 per hour. That’s 144 per day. 1008 per week. 2016 in 2 weeks. So sure Jake, let’s give them a few more weeks you sick motherf*cker.
Sullivan is campaigning to get Biden reelected. What a contempt of their constituents, they are just sh*t as far as they are concerned, only their pay masters count.
Voters are their idiots, votes are window dressing and don’t really count.
Crikey Lysis, that is a tad cynical, for even me……
Sorry Donna, but it is what they are, they kill without any reservations and somehow such people think we are like them. They are complicit with Israeli Zionist war crimes. I hate to say it and maybe I should not, but in my opinion the extreme nationalistic Zionists are the Israeli Nazis.
Silly question, are you Australian?
“Sullivan is campaigning to get Biden reelected.”
Agree entirely, Twisted LySister. Leading me to wonder, if Biden wins a 2nd term and need never pander to voters or special interests again – will he reverse course on Gaza, or double-down ?
Will he live long enough? He is deteriorating rapidly. I am a Democrat and hate to admit it, I voted for the demented old man.
Now I feel insulted by the contempt the leadership shows for me, a voter, I expect respect for me and my vote. To expect me to vote for demented old man, a complicit war criminal, a baby killer, and more who will end in INFAMY is preposterous. In no way, I expect to be respected, but they have only contempt for me but want my vote.
I will not be used like that, I will not vote for such a man, who do they think we are? I expect more from a president and the party and its leaders than that.
As a Democrat, what choice did you HAVE but Joltin’ Joe ?
I have given up on my vote “counting” in provincial or federal CDN politics. I vote Green because their platform is closest to my personal ethos and at least I know I tried.
Would you consider a 3rd party ?
Yes I would consider a third party. When I voted for Joe it was the lesser of two evils. Turned out the lesser evil was the worst. I will never again vote for the lesser, I want to vote FOR the best, if I can’t, I could vote a write in or stay home.
I think Democracies in advanced nations are in trouble. In Germany the Green party turned 180 degrees, they are now the war party and the leading party in the coalition government, a real disaster for nation and Europe. It is a sign of deep corruption, it can’t be just incompetence to govern so openly against the best interests of the nation. The same powers that gave us Biden and Trump must have worked in Germany too, the CIA meddles in elections, anything is possible I think.
“…vote a write in or stay home…”
Some countries have a ‘None of the Above’ option on their ballots. I wish mine/ours did.
Also I wish my province, a few years back, hadn’t intentionally botched a proposed Single Transferrable Vote change to our voting system – a referendum on a garbage, convoluted hybrid STV model; it would pass only with 60% YES votes overall (it hit ~58%) AND a supermajority of electoral districts voting YES (regardless of district population). Set up to fail, in every regard. Sigh.
Agree with you – democracies are quickly devolving into money-driven, power-hungry messes. Authoritarianism got REAL popular since 2020, on the Left especially.
At least where I live, the BC Liberal Party finally figured out it’s a big-business-friendly, center-Right party & rebranded to “BC United”. I’ll take microdoses of honesty when they come available…!
Capitalism pure, neoliberal economics could not be possible in real democracies. Unions, socialists and communists were demonized all that is left is a disabled one party system in disguise. Big money owns most of the nations wealth.
All that is left of any liberalism has been forced in a cocoon, limited to gender and abortion politics.
Canada is much like the US, but still a vassal. Too much Anglo-Saxon in it.
“I voted for the demented old man.”
You in a swing state? Otherwise…why?
I don’t live in a swing state, I live in a winner take all red state. I did my duty, no more. Of course Biden did not win the state. I a real Democracy the electoral college would at least be proportional.
But for the party to expect me to even vote symbolically for a senile old war criminal is no more than just insulting me as a voter and a thinking adult. Not that the GOP is any better.
For progressives who can’t stomach assisting a rightwing win, the ‘vote left except in swing states’ case is, briefly, this:
1/ your vote will not affect the electoral outcome; but…
2/ democrats and liberal news will be less able to claim a mandate based on votes for them;
or, to rephrase that – democrats’ anti-democratic-ness – the fact that they’re to the right of a lot of voters – will be more visible.
3/ therefore, practically, progressives are better able to charge democrats with supporting more-left positions.
why? because your left-of-dem vote shows a greater electorate will support dems, even if they lose right flank support.
4/ obviously, the right practice this strategy too…
5/ i could make a case for voting left even in swing states…but that’s another argument…
This is a one party system Democracy, there is no left or right, that political philosophy is just BS. Big money owns the government and decides what serves them best. The one party neocons, left and right, have been in power now for decades protecting neoliberal economics, that is all that counts. “Profit ueber alles” is their slogan.
Trump did deliver the SC and Biden and Trump served the MIC as expected. Democrats in silence watched and accepted the demonization and destruction of the unions, the SC took care of the right to life fanatics and approved Citizen United, both parties together are demolishing Social Security by robbing the SSTF and privatize it inch by inch, minimum wages are were they were in 2009. The Labor Department is in coma for many years and will stay in coma.
Our votes are make pretend for window dressing, that is it. I can make a case for not voting. Why vote, for what?
The Civil Rights legislation was the result of demonstrations and bloody violence and assassinations’, not voting. The end of the Vietnam war required demonstrations and street violence too.
He would most likely double down, it is all he knows and he is extremely demented, which does not help. I don’t think he knows what he signs, we don’t know who is in charge.
“But there’s no sign the US is using any of the leverage it has over Israel to achieve that end as US officials continue to promise unconditional military support.”
The US has a fake constitution with dual citizen Israelis in high elected offices and policy making positions. The US has no leverage over Israel.
Dual citizenship in high positions should be outlawed. But it will never happen because they are in power and powerful enough to hold on to power.
We have not had common sense diplomacy and government in many decades. The Settlements and all that comes with it did not start just yesterday. Decade after decade the US, patron of Israel, did nothing to stop the criminal occupation of Gaza and the WB and the brutal, humiliating treatment of the occupied Palestinian people, they supported it.
And then, Israel and the U.S. will attack Iran, with the brightest of green lights for Israel to use tactical nukes. Our carrier groups are not there for tourism. There are two there now. A third, according to my readings, means the attack is on.
The fleets are there to maintain open sea lanes.
The plan by the Zionist is to make Garza uninhabitable and to kill as many women and children as they can there by destroying generations of possible enemies , without women there can be no children , the Zionists have obviously took lessons from the NAZIS they escaped from .
Time for Steven Spielberg to come out with another movie about a genocide that happened 80 years ago to make us forget about the genocide occurring in 2023
It takes time to slaughter a bunch of unarmed people.
often i post music videos here on this forum – because i want everybody here to take a step back and remember why we are alive on this world in the first place – so despite all of the war/strife on this planet, we are human peoples and we are not only capable of kindness, we have an obligation to be kind . … so here is another one ….
Na Na NaNa Na Na Na Na Na Na Na …
Give It Up, Baby Give It Up …
i gave yalls plenty of warning stupid bastards
What will happen is the chicken will come home to roost, or karma will strike back, actions have consequences, etc. The Israelis and their army already have a long record of militarism and chauvinism, excessive use of military force and violence and committing atrocities for which they should be held accountable appropriately, particularly after 1967, and now they’re adding more and more to that bad long record.
The messed up actions, misdeeds, bad deceitful things and wrongdoings that they are doing or that they try to do to others will backfire, boomerang, hurt them and return on them.
is that an Israeli guy with American flags behind him, or is that an American guy with Israeli flags behind him. wait, what. is there really any difference.
what
What do you say to the state that buldozed a hospital with patients and medical staff in it? Are such people reachable? I am not sure who has the leverage. When Germany meekly accepted the destruction of pioelines, the life blood of their powerhouse industry — what can you add to that? Clearly, the puppets running around presumably in charge of the government — had nothing to say,. Nothing. Our lesders can talk all day long. Changes nothing.