Israeli officials have agreed on a more “limited” operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah that won’t be opposed by President Biden, Washington Post columnist David Ignatius reported on Monday.
Ignatius said Israeli officials have reached a “consensus” about a “final assault” against four Hamas battalions Israel believes remain in Rafah.
Ignatius wrote: “Instead of the heavy attack with two divisions that Israel contemplated several weeks ago, government and military leaders foresee a more limited assault that US officials think will result in fewer civilian casualties and, for that reason, Biden won’t oppose.”
Despite issuing a warning to Israel about its plans for Rafah, Biden has not imposed any consequences as the Israeli military has continued to escalate in the city, and he backed the Israeli capture of the Rafah border crossing, which has halted aid distribution in the city.
US officials claimed to oppose an Israeli assault on the city without a clear plan for an evacuation of the 1.4 million civilians who were sheltering there. But Israel never submitted a plan to the US and went ahead with the invasion anyway. Now, over 800,000 civilians have fled Rafah with no clear place for them to go that’s safe or have basic necessities, such as water supplies.
Israel has made clear to the US that it will continue to escalate in Rafah. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Monday that Israel is “committed to broadening the ground operation in Rafah to the end of dismantling Hamas and recovering the hostages.”
Surprise, surprise…
Potential escalation, of the situation, is not advisable and deescalation would be, undoubtably preferred.
Shouting into the ether, no one hears us.
Do we know even what this means? What is escallation/deescalkation in the context of Rafah? It was not supposed to have happened, but here we are. 800,000 people are on the move . From one unsafe place to another.
This terror Summerian style is meant to dull senses, paralize action. And the volubility of cheerleaders is deafening.
Bombs are falling on Rafah. Still no food or water in sight. People are dropping dead from dehydration along the escape route. Let somebody, somehow or somewhere deescalate? Would it help if we say “please”?
This pier was US only plan. Hope it soon makes the difference in the midst of bombing. Or else, for US it is a mother of all humiliations.
Netanyahu suggested it. I have read that trucks with humanitarian aid are still not getting through.
Biden could not open a single gate to let the trucks deliver aid why would he believe they could deliver over water or from the sky. Of course he could not prevent the slaughter in Rafah. Never in my long life did I expect to see such a demented, incompetent old men running the nation in the ground without anyone around reigning him in and stop the catastrophe. The vassals like lemmings follow blindly.
Of course not. He has 20,000 soldiers invested in the genocide, along with bombs, intelligence, tank munitions and strangling aid.
Ignatius wrote: “Instead of the heavy attack with two divisions that Israel contemplated several weeks ago, government and military leaders foresee a more limited assault that US officials think will result in fewer civilian casualties and, for that reason, Biden won’t oppose.”
Now, over 800,000 civilians have fled Rafah with no clear place for them to go that’s safe or have basic necessities, such as water supplies.
Sure, as long as they don’t die in Rafah. Now, starving to death elsewhere isn’t a problem. I wonder if any Palestinians will celebrate the death of Joe Biden. I know I will.
Death is too easy. I wanna see him roast on the hot seat in an international court….I know, I know, never happen.
I’m good with that. And then death. The kind he deserves.
He’s practically a walking corpse now. He’ll die a comfortable death in wealth, surrounded by 5 star care.
True. And we both know he’ll never set foot in an international court. I guess I’ll have to rely on there being a Hell.
People like him work hard to make sure there is a hell here on earth.
He is too demented to notice.
Me too, but will it change anything. You can’t find common sense with a microscope anywhere in the USA/NATO alliance. Orban is the exception.
QUACK! QUACK! QUACK!
1)War crimes
2)Crimes against humanity
3) Genocide
4) Ethic Cleansing
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ac·com·plice
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noun
a person who helps another commit a crime.
“an accomplice in the murder”
Of course Genocide Joe will not oppose the Rafah massacre. He helped plan it.
He was never opposed. He has been a willing enabler and active participant.
3 U.S. allies recognize Palestinian state, dealing latest blow to increasingly isolated Israel
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This is the wave which we need to see grow. Appeals to Biden are ripples against a mile-high breakwater, given his campaign for another four years as petty dictator.
I continue to be struck by the fact that we are being ruled by rot.
More EU countries are in the queue…!
So hopefully, we will see arrest warrants for Biden, his Administration, the majority of Congress, who are complicit in War Crimes.
I enjoy your sense of optimism and indeed humor Ginah. I will buy a ticket, to such and event and with great enthusiasm, as well.
What we are being blind to is Biden’s weakness, alliwing Netanyahu to humiliate him. Biden asks fir plan for Rafah. No plan. Rafah red line. No more. Open crossing — no. Hundreds of million worth of pier — hmmm. No food can cone in. Burocratiic language, excuses. No food delivered. Food trucks burned by mobs, packages tossed. Biden can only watch in silence. And say it is OK. What else can he say?
fuckin uncle sam will still be uncle sam long after Biden is finished.
don’t kid youselfs.
meanwhile, “we are young!”
try to remember when you were young …
Love the Lady…!
Has Mr. Biden responded to this yet: https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/israel-seizes-aps-equipment-reverses-move-after-pressure/
Robinette’s handlers are willing to have him lose the election rather than stand up to Netanyahoo and show that the USA is not a vassal state of Israel.
Biden: “Hey, Bibi, can you commit genocide with 10,000 less troops?”
Bibi: “Sure, Joe, no problem. Hope this helps your election! Call me when you win!”
Israel thinks Hamas is cornered in Rafah….! That is too far off from the truth…! They would end up empty handed with more humiliation…!
Indict Biden.
The ICC could do it. Or perhaps Spain might, like it did Pinochet.
Defending and funding genocide, while threatening the prosecutors who confront it, are crimes.
Biden is only annoyed this is happening in an election year. Same with the Ukraine war. Otherwise it’d be fine.
All western democracies are big failures, they are governed by mentally deranged turds. We have two idiotic, deranged, incompetent old men fighting for the highest office in the land and no caretaker in sight.
They can barely deliver a coherent sentence much less a coherent thought. We are in a sorry shape, we are being governed by Banana republic standards.