Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant made clear to US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in a meeting in Israel on Monday that Israel will escalate in Rafah despite the White House’s supposed objection to a major military operation in the city.
“We are committed to broadening the ground operation in Rafah to the end of dismantling Hamas and recovering the hostages,” Gallant told Sullivan, according to a statement from the Israeli minister’s office.
President Biden has threatened consequences for Israel if it launched a major attack on “population centers” in Rafah, but he has not taken action as Israel continues to escalate its operations in the city.
The UN estimates that over 800,000 civilians out of the 1.4 million who were sheltering in Rafah have already evacuated, and aid groups are warning that the places they are going lack water supplies and other basic necessities.
The US claimed it was opposed to an Israeli plan to attack the city without accounting for the civilians but has continued to back Israel as it’s ordered evacuations with no clear place for civilians to go.
The White House said in a statement that Sullivan reiterated to Gallant and Israeli military chief Herzi Halevi the president’s “longstanding position on Rafah.” He also expressed to them and other Israeli officials the US’s “unwavering support for Israel.”
The vital Rafah border crossing also remains closed to aid shipments, and the White House said Sullivan discussed “the importance of Israel and Egypt concluding talks to reopen the Rafah crossing as soon as possible.”
Can we stop “reporting” nonsense about how the US government doesn’t support Israel IN ANYTHING IT DOES? All these statements from Sullivan and the rest of the genocide enablers are purely for public PR consumption in order to save Biden’s re-election bid. It has NOTHING to do with actual US POLICY.
Following this absurd “journalistic practice” of NOT pointing out the REAL context of the report is just that…absurd.
Rafah was supposed to be taken with 2 IDF brigades, and an additional IDF brigade to hold the Netzarim Corridor. A total of 3 brigades was the plan.
Now; IDF has thrown 9 brigades into the Gaza meat grinder instead of the original 3 planned.
Al-Qassem’s underground fortress keeps churning out RPGs and ammo. It’s a veritable Turkey shoot as their fighters pop up, fire off a few RPGs , and scoot back underground. The combat footage from the last week is gut wrenching.
Here is a typical scene from combat footage in Gaza these days:
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The Likud is to blame for this senseless waste of Israeli lives.
The nation of Israel has a death wish and that is fine with me. If they won’t listen to reason they deserve whatever they get.
The Israelis don’t care what a bunch of twits in America think. They’re going to do whatever they think they have to for the defeat of Hamas. Hamas represents an existential threat to them. All we can do is help rebuild Gaza when this war is concluded. That is the stark reality of it.
“Hamas represents an existential threat to them.”
That’s just complete nonsense.
Comes from watching too many cartoons.
When combined with Hezbollah to the north, and Iran to the East,and attempts undermine Jordan-Yes.
Well then, there’s hope.
He said Hamas. And if we’re combining those who support the sides, we can’t leave out the superpower to the west that is financing Israel’s ongoing genocide/ethnic cleansing/collective (capital) punishment. So, FUCK no.
The only nonsense is your denial that Hamas is an existential threat to Israel. That’s how the Israelis see it. I repeat, the Israelis don’t care what a bunch of twits in America think.
Tell me how Hamas has the capability. My denial is based on sheer numbers. And yes, I get the point that Israelis feel it is an existential threat to them, but that doesn’t make it any less ridiculous of an assumption just because they feel that way. It’s their standard reply to any attack by any group. I would be willing to bet that most independent observers would recognize the obvious and agree that Hamas is not an existential threat to Israel.
You apparently are unaware of the details of the attack that HAMAS pulled off in October, and the savagery they pulled it off with. They killed and raped in mass, then took hostages. They have raped and sexually assaulted the women hostages as well. To blow that off is to shows ignorance and a complete lack of credibility. You so eloquently show why Israel doesn’t care what a bunch of twits in America think. Although you are right about one thing. Hamas is finding out definitively how limited their capability actually is. Unfortunately, the Palestinian people are also finding out what happens as a consequence an attack like the one Hamas pulled off in October.
And you apparently are unaware of Israel’s response. Even if all the exaggerated claims of what Hamas did was fact (40 beheaded babies?), it still doesn’t justify Israel’s response nor does it make Hamas an “existential” threat. If anything, it proves otherwise. Israel kills with impunity. If Hamas was an existential threat, Israel would no longer be in existence. And I never “blew off” Hamas’ attack. I just compare the attack to the response and the response made the attack look timid in comparison. The only one lacking credibility is you and your denial of Israel’s over the top brutality on a largely civilian populated area.
You have blown off the actions of Hamas. Have you ever condemned Hamas for their action in October, or acknowledged that Israel may have some justification for taking military action? If members of your family were raped and murdered by someone, I suspect that you would act similarly to how Israel is acting. You would probably consider that an existential threat. The Israelis certainly do.
I haven’t blown off anything. I condemned Hamas for killing civilians from the very beginning. It is you that is blowing off 8 months of unspeakable brutality that includes a man-made famine. Is that “justified” and part of their “military action”? Sounds more like collective punishment to me. And you also seem confused as to what an existential threat Hamas is to Israel by comparing an individual threat (my family members getting murdered/raped) to that of an entire country. Hamas is not a threat to Israel’s existence because people were killed, and women were raped during the October attack. But nice try on trying to label me a Hamas supporter. It just means your failing at defending the indefensible.
What do you think Israel’s reply would be to the October attack? Also, you give no credence to Hamas’ own indifference to Palestinian lives. Likud has made Hamas to only alternative that Palestinians can turn to, but Hamas made a catastrophic error in October. My original post merely pointed out that Israel doesn’t care what anyone else thinks. They are going to do whatever they think necessary to root out Hamas. They will probably use the tunnels that Hamas built to make sure that Hamas never returns. I think Likud will be thrown out of office as soon as the Gaza war ends. Then, perhaps there will be an Israeli government that will work towards a two state solution.
I expected Israel to act exactly how they acted. In every conflict with Hamas their response has been disproportionate. Do you want the numbers? And whether I give credence to Hamas’ indifference to Palestinian lives, which by the way I have, doesn’t justify Israel’s response. It’s that simple. You keep trying to spin this as something Israel was FORCED to do. They weren’t. And the fact that our government continues to feed Israel despite the world’s condemnation means the only “twits” they have to be concerned about in America are the ones who control the money.
…. All we can do is help rebuild Gaza when this war is concluded…..
You surely mean By confiscating part of the $200 billion of Israeli Central Bank Assets to pay for the damages ?
If we threatened Israel with confiscating the Israeli Central Bank Assets, the killing of Palestinians would only accelerate. The Israelis would speed up whatever their plans are for Gaza and the U.S. would have no influence at all. The Israelis would be far less burdened with influence with any other country. Chest beating here in America won’t help the Palestinian people.
You really believe the Likud is restraining the IDF ?
I’m not sure where you would get that Idea from anything I posted. I think Likud has helped make Hamas what it is today.
Let the Arab oil lords pay eparatios to the Jews they evicted from their midst-its only fair.Funny how people love to spend other peoples money.
“Funny how people love to spend other peoples money.”
Like the billions of dollars per year of taxpayer money that the US government sends to Israel — and to other countries to buy them off on Israel’s behalf? Like that there?
The left has their pet projects;the right has theirs. I would have sold any arms to Israel that they could pay for,no more and no less. Biden decided to do what he did-another prime example of what i was saying.
UNR 194 and ICJ advisory opinion of 2004 both codify in international law that the Gov’t of Israel is responsible for paying for damages etc
Dream on.
Fine,let all the Arab countries that evicted Jews pay the damages accruing since 1948.
Get a UN resolution or ICJ decision saying as much.
“We” could and should end all US aid to Israel now!
Of course that would mean breaking the Zionist stranglehold on our government and maybe break a few Zionists while we’re at it.
The U.S. suspending all aid to Israel would do nothing to stop the violence in Gaza. It would hasten Israeli military action. The only way the U.S. could stop the war going on in Gaza would be for the U.S. to invade Israel. That just won’t happen.
“The U.S. suspending all aid to Israel would do nothing to stop the violence in Gaza.”
Zionist bullshit. GFY.
It is the Globalists and their leftist puppets who filled our streets with paid rioters and illegal immigrants seeking to gobble up our resources,who have seized control. Zionism good.
LOL. Thanks for the trip down looney MAGA lane.
Trump will be our next president,and all will be well.
You support immoral filth. No surprise there.
If Trump is our next President, all will be hell.
“Hamas represents an existential threat to them”?
You couldn’t support that dumbassery if yr life depended on it.
Maybe you are right, in a parallel universe where fairy tales come true. In this universe, the Israelis see Hamas as an existential threat.
“In this universe, the Israelis see Hamas as an existential threat.”
1/ In 1930s Nazi-world, Germans “saw” Jews as an “existential threat” – a mass lie justifying mass murder.
2/ In the same way, Israeli Zionism of today “sees” Hamas as an “existential threat”:
ie – scratch the surface of that “threat” and you find not fear, but open demands for the ethnic cleansing and mass murder of Palestinians as a people – thus, mass polled support for cutting all humanitarian aid to Gaza.
O but we must block trucks in case of ‘dual purpose’ umbilical scissors? Those your genocidal lies too?
3/ The only real threat to Israel is not military, but political: that, in the face of its apartheid, its atrocities, and its political degeneration, playing the Jewish victim card will no longer work…
…and Zionist Israel will be reviled as another Nazi Germany or South Africa-type state – a disgrace and a menace to be replaced with a just Jew/Palestine state.
And the Democrat president has the nerve to say there’s no genocide in Israel. US politics are rotten through and through.
“We are committed to broadening the ground operation in Rafah to the end of dismantling Hamas and recovering the hostages,” Gallant told Sullivan, according to a statement from the Israeli minister’s office.
Great logic there. So, the ones they call terrorists who they claim uses their own people as human shields are going to return the hostages safe and sound to those who are saying they won’t stop until they destroy them? Good luck with that.
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Lol, spot on!
He meant to say… We are committed to destroy Israel PR around the world and along with it the US’s, and to the end of Israel and recovering the All Dead hostages…!
Now that they’ve been indicted by the ICC, they have nothing to lose. In it for a penny, in it for a pound.
So War Criminal Gallant talks to War Criminal Sullivan, who then assures him, that War Criminal Biden will back the War Criminals in Israel. The ICC needs to send out thousands of Arrest Warrants to those complicit in the SLAUGHTERING of Palestinians.
Biden’s concern about civilian casualties is all for show.
What happened to US request that Israel provide to US a plan for Rafah that would show how civilian casualties would be prevented?
President Biden has threatened consequences for Israel if it launched a major attack on “population centers” in Rafah, but he has not taken action as Israel continues to escalate its operations in the city.
And that’s why Israel did it incrementally. The US just has to keep talking them down a notch from being too brutal all at once as to keep it within plausible deniability. I remember wondering why they were only evacuating 300,000 at the onset of this planned slaughter. Now I know. It’s like the frog in the boiling water analogy.
Still not understanding why the world (and ICC) ignored the Saudi/U.S. slaughter in Yemen.
Can’t recall another war in which civilian refugees were not allowed sanctuary in a neighboring country. Shoot, look at all the Ukrainians hiding out in Europe.
Gaza is home to the Gazans.Let Hamas terrorists surrender to Egypt and then be flown far far away.
Burger King is home to the Burgher Kings.
The ICC only has jurisdiction over two things: Crimes committed in member states and crimes committed by citizens of member states. Since neither Yemen nor Saudi Arabia are ICC member states, the ICC has no jurisdiction over e.g. Saudi citizens committing war crimes in Yemen.
Palestine, however, is an ICC member state. So any war crimes committed in Palestine are covered by ICC jurisdiction no matter who commits them (e.g. Israelis), and any war crimes committed by citizens of Palestine are covered by ICC jurisdiction no matter where they’re committed (e.g. Israel).
Another redline?
Mutating the semantics of words to keep arrest warrants from those who do not change definitions?
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“Recovering the hostages?” That’s, what, like 40 humans, at this point?
You may ask what are the consequence…? The answer is there’s none…! Just get angry for 1 hour and show your fake fury face on 6 o’clock news…!