Unconscionable US Interference in Israel’s War

The Biden regime is aligned with the jihad force.

I understand our goal in preventing the war’s spread, but are we really working behind the scenes on regime change in Israel with our ‘partner’ Iran? If true, this is a low point in U.S. foreign policy, but it does explain our condolences to Iran for Raisi’s death. https://t.co/SpXXknPCwt

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Unconscionable US Interference in Israel’s War

By: Lawrence A. Franklin, Insight, • May 20, 2024
The President of Israel, Isaac Herzog, greets US President Joe Biden at Ben Gurion Airport, Israel on July 13, 2022. (Photo: Haim Zach / Israeli Government Press Office)

The open split been between the Biden Administration and the Israeli government as to how Israel should conduct its war against the Hamas terrorist rulers of Gaza has become a gut wrenching policy dispute while the wartime goal to expunge Hamas is still ongoing.

Prime Minister (PM) Benyamin Netanyahu’s recent public statement “Israel is not a vassal state of the United States,” is evidence of how both pungent and exasperating policy and personal divergence has become.

American President Joe Biden has taken the bold step of dispatching cabinet level interlocutors to Israel to seek separate and private talks with political rivals of Netanyahu. These attempted cabals border on a US strategy to encourage a political coup against the PM who leads the current national unity government in Israel. Biden who recently sent Secretary of State Antony Blinken on his fifth trip to Israel since the onset of the latest round of ongoing conflict between Hamas and Israel, had authorized Blinken to seek private a meetings with the PM’s political opponents such as Minister of Defense Galant. Netanyahu’s Likud Party allies in the cabinet blocked any such meeting unless trusted aides of the PM were in attendance.

Blinken’s opposition to the Israeli PM may have been more muted than the mid-March blatant call for Netanyahu’s ouster by US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Shumer (D-NY), a Biden ally. However, it is nonetheless a startling interference in Israeli’s War Cabinet’s decision-making. Moreover, it oversteps the bounds of sovereignty even by the closest of allies.
Startling Interference

The administration is under pressure from the Democratic Party’s left wing, which is decidedly anti-Israel, but whose support Biden requires to be elected to a second four term in November. Parenthetically, Biden has called for a ceasefire and announced his opposition to an Israeli Defense Force (IDF) ground offensive in Rafah, for fear that many civilian casualties would ensue.

The administration also is conditioning US military assistance to Israel unless its demands are accepted. However, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, fed up with Biden’s “slow-walking” of an already funded weapons package, has insisted on immediate delivery of all weapons and ordinance previously approved, including tunnel-busting US bombs.

State Department and Pentagon officials are directly interfering in Israeli War Cabinet debates. This US inveigling has encouraged former IDF Chief of Staff and Minister of Defense Benny Gantz and acting Minister of Defense Yoav Gallant to openly criticize the PM’s alleged lack of policy planning on how Gaza would be governed once Hamas is eradicated. Gantz, long a political adversary of Netanyahu has threatened to resign from the National Unity Israeli Government unless the PM makes public a plan for post-war administration of Gaza.

If Gantz resigns, it is likely that his protégé Herzi Halevi, Chief of the General Staff, will also leave, further feeding chaos at the top level of leadership during a war.

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