POLITICO reported on Monday that despite the Biden administration’s public calls for a ceasefire in Lebanon, White House officials privately told Israeli officials that they agreed with the plan to escalate in Lebanon and shift its focus to the north.
The report, which cited US and Israeli officials, said the message was delivered by Brett McGurk, the top Middle East official on the National Security Council, and Amos Hochstein, an Israeli-born veteran of the Israeli Defense Forces who works as a special advisor for President Biden.
The report said that Israel told the US of its plans to focus on Lebanon but didn’t offer much detail, and McGurk and Hochstein “relayed to their Israeli counterparts that — while they still urged a cautious approach — the timing was likely opportune for such a move, especially after Hezbollah had been significantly degraded in the months prior.”
The report contradicts public claims from US officials that they have been seeking a ceasefire in Lebanon and are working toward a diplomatic solution. But US actions have shown they do support Israel’s actions in Lebanon, as the Biden administration gave Israel $8.7 billion in new military aid amid the dramatic escalation.
The POLITICO report said that McGurk, Hochstein, and other top US officials are describing the war in Lebanon “as a history-defining moment — one that will reshape the Middle East for the better for years to come.”
Over 1,000 people, including many civilians, have been slaughtered by Israeli forces in Lebanon since September 23. Airstrikes have been non-stop, and the Israeli military has said it’s started a ground invasion of Lebanon.
Typical…
Lie, deny, alibi…Israel and US…
Shame, shame, we know your names!…
Pick on someone your own size!
Iran knows how to fight fair!
The bombing of the Israeli embassy in Argentina and Jewish cultural center-was that "fair" to you?
Think back to 2015. Trump announced his presidential bid on a down escalator.
Hopefully this has all ended by the time he takes office.
Oct. 7 was a big mistake…
Nakbha in 1948 was a bigger mistake. Zionism as it is in the "illegal" state of Israel is a bigger mistake. Massive.
Israeli society has been make a sick society by the Zionists, which is not Judaism. Not even a scintilla.
Not a scintilla?
He won't be taking office.
Oh, Kamala wins in Penn?
Likely.
Statistically, they’re tied in the polls there, and have been pretty much the whole time. So it’s about turnout. And this year the Democrats are looking a LOT better at getting out the vote.
Well, it doesn’t seem fair. Trump is running a vastly better platform this year.
Trump is the lesser evil.
It would please me greatly if Trump won the electoral college by a tiny bit,due to a tight win in Penn.
"White House officials privately told Israeli officials that they agreed with the plan to escalate in Lebanon and shift its focus to the north"
To shift focus away from the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Surely they can’t continue it for much longer…
Exactly
There is NOTHING left of Gaza to bomb.
Mark my words. Brett McGurk and Amos Hochstein want our children and grandchildren. Don't even bother to worry too much. If they don't succeed now, they will succeed later.
The Biden-Harris administration is acting like an arsonist. It is an interventionist government that is lighting fires around the world.
They are doing everything to make the price of oil explode, which would further feed inflation.
The same would happen with an expanded war in the Middle East. There will be economic consequences coming from this warmongering posture.
This bankrupt nation will soon be $40 trillion in the hole.
At any other time during the past three and a half years the price of Gas would be skyrocketing during this turmoil in the Middle East, but because the election is a month away the price of gas has miraculously come down.
What truly is nausea disgusting is that this "Rules for thee but not for me" that today is the first day of ' [Rosh Hashana] is also referred to as Yom Hazikaron, or the Day of Remembrance. The remembering is not just a private act:
We are required to ask for forgiveness for those we have hurt during the past year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"But US actions have shown they do support Israel’s actions in Lebanon"
Well, slap me, tap me and call me pappy! DeCamp finally puts into a report what is blindingly obvious to anyone with a brain: that it is ACTIONS, not bullshit from the White House and the MSM, that matters in interpreting the situation.
Can we hope Antiwar.com will continue this breakthrough journalism?
Maybe we'll really get lucky and Scott Ritter and the rest of Judge Nap's guests will finally get the message as well. I elide Alastair Crooke from that list as he gets it.
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"Amos Hochstein, an Israeli-born veteran of the Israeli Defense Forces who works as a special advisor for President Biden." "Special advisor", indeed.
Rigged elections have consequences. They needed to put a pliant, obedient stooge president in the White House in order to get away with this.
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Biden has a Zionist Administration, they HATE Arabs, HATE Muslims, so trying to decimate Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, etc. is their GOAL. Biden and his Zionist Administration will continue their War Crimes, knowing their FAKE "Cease Fire" was just a STALL and KILL Agenda. The USA/Israel are now known as Nations of War Criminals, so not one UN Nation can do business with them.
Failed in Russia so trying their luck with Iran. Russia sees the Americans as enemy and they want to pay it back for all the dead Russians so we will see
The Us is not "encouraging" anything-they understand the gravity of the situation.
2006 Lebanon War
Condoleezza Rice has described the plight of Lebanon as a part of the “birth pangs of a new Middle East” and said that Israel should ignore calls for a ceasefire.
18 years later and the same sick genocidal hopes of US/Israeli subjugation of the Middle East. It didn't work then, and it won't work now.