Biden Admin Turns Up Pressure On Israel Not To Capture Hamas Rafah Stronghold, Arms Supplies Reportedly At Risk
Prime Minister Netanyahu: Biden admin “asked us not to carry out the operation in Rafah, but we don’t have any other choice.”
The Biden administration is cutting down on weapons supply to Israel as the war against the terror group Hamas enters a decisive phase.
To stop Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu from ordering an operation against the last-standing Hamas stronghold of Rafah, the White House is “considering leaving Israel short of the armaments it needs to fight Hamas,” columnist Benny Avni revealed exclusively in The New York Sun on Monday.
The Israeli military urgently needs more ammunition as the Gaza ground offensive enters its fifth month. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is “running out of 155 mm artillery shells and 120 mm tank shells, as well as sensitive guidance equipment,” the news website reported, citing Israeli sources.
With Israeli troops engaged in pitched battles against well-armed and fortified terrorist forces across Gaza, the military “noted a recent reduction of American arms supplies,” the article added.
Prime Minister Netanyahu on Saturday approved a military and humanitarian plan for capturing the Hamas stronghold, the Israeli media revealed.
The NY Sun reported Monday:
President Biden, keeping Prime Minister Netanyahu at arm’s length, is reportedly considering leaving Israel short of the armaments it needs to fight Hamas. Such a politically based move risks harming America’s global interests.
By Sunday, Israel must tell America that it is complying with international restrictions on arms supplies, including by facilitating ample humanitarian assistance to Gaza, the national security adviser, Jacob Sullivan, told reporters Monday, adding that it is yet to do so.
Meanwhile, a Jerusalem official noted a recent reduction of American arms supplies to Israel, ABC news reports. The Israel Defense Force is running out of 155 mm artillery shells and 120 mm tank shells, as well as sensitive guidance equipment, the official said. (…)
In a deep analysis of the Gaza war, the chairman of urban warfare studies at West Point, John Spencer, concluded that Israel “has painstakingly followed the laws of armed conflict and implemented many steps to prevent civilian casualties, despite enormous challenges.” Denying arms to Israel, then, would be a “political decision” that is “not backed by what has actually happened in Israel and Gaza,” Mr. Spencer tells the Sun.
It could also backfire if the IDF runs out of precision bombs, Mr. Roggio adds. As in Iraq during the war there, he says, once supply of such arms dwindles, a military quickly moves to using less discriminating munitions, resulting in higher civilian casualty rates.
Biden tells Netanyahu not to attack Rafah stronghold without ‘Washington’s approval’
The revelation comes as President Joe Biden ‘warned’ Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu not to undertake the planned large-scale military operation in Rafah aimed at eliminating Hamas leadership and freeing the remaining hostages.
In a phone conversation that took place on Monday, Biden “warned” the Israeli prime minister “not to act without approval from Washington in a stern phone call on Monday,” the Jerusalem Post reported. “Israel lacks a viable military strategy to eliminate Hamas in Rafah,” the U.S. president said, according to the newspaper.
The Qatari-funded Al Jazeera called it the “strongest public warning yet to Israel against invading” the terrorist bastion.
The NBC News reported the phone call:
During a critical phone call Monday, President Joe Biden warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against Israel’s carrying out a planned military operation in Rafah, the White House said.
“Our position is that Hamas should not be allowed a safe haven in Rafah or anywhere else, but a major ground operation there would be a mistake,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan said at the White House briefing where he outlined the leaders’ conversation.
“It would lead to more innocent civilian deaths, worsen the already dire humanitarian crisis, deepen the anarchy in Gaza and further isolate Israel internationally,” Sullivan added.
Netanyahu to Biden: “We don’t have any other choice.”
Defying Biden, Netanyahu vowed to go ahead with the planned military operation against the terrorists in Rafah, the Israeli TV channel i23NEWS reported Tuesday:
Prime Minister Netanyahu reportedly told a closed meeting of the Foreign Affairs Knesset committee that “The Americans asked us not to carry out the operation in Rafah, but we don’t have any other choice. We need to have control over the Philadelphi Corridor [Hamas’s main weapons supply route on the Egyptian border].”
EU leaders call for ‘permanent ceasefire’ in Gaza
The European Union joined the Biden White House in urging Israel to halt operations against Hamas. On Tuesday, all 27 heads of EU member states called for a “permanent ceasefire” in Gaza while Hamas held some hundred remaining Israeli hostages, including elderly, women, and children.
The Jerusalem Post reported:
The 27 heads of state of the European Union are expected to call on Thursday for an immediate humanitarian pause in the fighting in Gaza, leading to a permanent ceasefire, Kan News reported on Tuesday, citing a German source.
IDF continues op in Gaza, eliminates more Hamas leaders
Despite mounting U.S. and European pressure, the IDF continued counter-terrorism operations across Gaza — eliminating Hamas’s leadership and destroying weapons depots.
“Maglan and Egoz Unit soldiers operated in the center of the ‘Hamad’ area and raided dozens of terror targets located inside multi-story buildings,” the IDF disclosed in a press release on Tuesday. “During the activity that lasted over a week, the unit’s soldiers raided a terrorist structure used by the Deputy Battalion Commander of the Khan Yunis Brigade, Ahmed Klab, and located large quantities of weapons.”
The IDF says it has wrapped up its operation against Hamas in the Hamad Town residential complex in southern Gaza's Khan Younis.
The raid, which began earlier this month, was carried out by the Maglan and Egoz commando units, along with other forces.
The commandos had raided… pic.twitter.com/y83j6ONfej
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) March 19, 2024
After eliminating Hamas’ Internal Security chief, Faiq Mabhouh, in his hideout inside Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital on Monday, the IDF continued operations against jihadists holed up in the terrorist-infested medical facility. The IDF took out more than 50 terrorists in and around the ‘hospital,’ which Hamas uses as a command center.
The Israeli broadcaster Arutz Sheva reported Tuesday:
The IDF and ISA, led by the 162nd Division, the 401st Brigade, and Shayetet 13 special forces are continuing precise operations in the Shifa Hospital to thwart terrorism.
The troops eliminated terrorists in close-quarters combat and located weapons in the area while avoiding harm to civilians, medical staff, and medical equipment. Thus far, the troops killed over 50 terrorists and apprehended approximately 180 suspects.
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Congratulations to the Biden Administration!! It has won the prize for the most disgusting, anti-freedom, anti-American administration in America’s history!
Don’t exaggerate. American administrations have done far worse than this. This move ranks about equal with what George Bush Sr did to keep Israel out of the first Gulf War.
Israel didn’t need to become involved in GW1, and if it had, most all of the other coalition “partners” (note the use of scare quotes) would have quit. It was a strategic move for strategic reasons, and Israel (I don’t think) minded all that much in the end except that we had to come back and finish the job a decade later.
But yes, American administrations have done far worse. About the only worse thing than being an American enemy is being an American friend.
Israel ate a lot of direct rocket strikes on Tel Aviv and other areas during Gulf War I. It was only luck that none were chemical attacks.
At the end, as a show of gratitude by Bush Sr. for Israel obeying his insane requests at such a great cost (both in actual harm and threat and also in the degradation of Israel’s deterrence of future actions) … Bush jumped all over Israel for building in Jerusalem suburbs, basically, and reneged on a 10 billion dollar loan guarantee – not a loan, but just a guarantee.
Bush Sr. was a worm of monumental proportions … but he still doesn’t come to the level of Traitor Joe and his anti-American, anti-Western junta of vicious retards.
For once Primordial got it right.
One thing Primordial didn’t mention is that Shamir sitting on his hands while the country got pounded was the primary reason for his loss at the 1992 election, which led directly to the disastrous Oslo accords and to the situation Israel is in now.
Primordial likes to toss the word “treason” around; Oslo was literally treason, and Beilin and Peres should have hanged for it.
More explanation of what Primordial wrote: Bush’s promise of $10B in loan guarantees (which don’t cost the USA one cent) was the quid for the quo of Shamir staying out of the war. This was just when Israel was expecting a million immigrants from the USSR, and needed to house them. Shamir figured with the $10B loans he could build them housing in the “territories” and permanently end any talk of a “Palestinian” state, and that gain would more than make up for the humiliation of letting Israel be a target and not reacting. But then Bush reneged on his promise, putting a condition on the guarantee that negated its entire purpose. None of the money could be used to build anything in the “territories”. So Shamir lost the election and many thousands have died as a result.
Milhouse el assad
gonxtox needs to detox.
He wasn’t exaggerating, the pedophile in Chief is the worst ever
They were certainly no friends of Israel. James Baker in particular was a creep.
The Biden Administration is torpedoing American business interests, Israel will ramp up their own production of munitions,
In the meantime Israel can switch to other means of subduing Hamas. Filling tunnels with a multitude of flammable gases at the proper fuel air mixture, it could even be flammable dust, followed by salt water. They could use salt from desalination to increase salt concentration in the sea water..
There are also fertilizer based explosives,
Napalm is also an option, it could be mass produced in a matter of weeks.
In the end, how Hamas dies might be much worse, and that is something they richly deserve..
Surprising to anybody that we have a backstabbing pedophile in the white house?
I am not surprised that pedophiles backstab.
I am not surprised that one is in the white house.
I am surprised that there are so many never trumpers who are willing to keep him there.
Personally, I dislike Trump intensely but I am going to vote for him bc there is no way on earth I will vote for Biden-Harris (aka Obama’s third and fourth terms) or the slimy Newsom or any other Democrat that might bubble to the surface.
How many US lawmaker hands will we find in this cookie jar?
To wit:
We need to arm Ukraine to the teeth to prevent its eradication by Russia.
BUT
We don’t need to arm Israel to the teeth to prevent its eradication by the Palestinians.
Great convoluted foreign policy we have from the supposed foreign policy expert!!
Stolen elections have dire consequences. Especially when a corrupt mental retard is installed as ‘POTUS’
It’s not Biden, per se. It’;s the socialist cabal in the background pulling the strings. The Puppet Master(s) will still be in DC, even after Biden is gone. Look at the J6 houndings and prosecutions. Totally un-American targeting of US citizens. Then look at the NY civil prosecution of Trump on baseless charges, including a financial judgment meant to disable appeal. (Apparently, the judgment must be put in escrow before an appeal can be filed.). There is no competent leadership in the US. Only figreheads willing to endure our punishing election process, and their secretive handlers behind the scenes. This is one reason they hate Trump so much. He cannot be handled.
The problem here is that Israel is dealing with more than the so-called Palestinians. Hamas and Hezbollah are funded and supplied by Iran.
With money that it has only because of Biden’s policies.
Good point. I was going to reply sooner but couldn’t reach my computer because of the elephant in the room.
And who gave Iran Billions in American Taxpayer money? Obama/Biden.
It wasn’t taxpayer money. It was Iran’s own money, but the USA had been holding on to it for decades because it was dangerous to let Iran have it. 0bama and Biden had no business giving it to them. They should have kept on holding it until there’s a regime change in Iran. And used it to compensate people who have judgments against Iran.
Biden WH foreign policy is abysmal. Already drove Russia into closer alignment with China. Is pushing the BRICS towards setting up a functional alternative for international settle!ent/payments. Has now managed to PO Saudi and Israel and be rebuffed by both.
Yup. Ten billion dollars buys a lot of terrorism these days…
Biden makes my skin crawl!
Traitor Joe and his junta are banking on Iran getting a nuke soon and annihilating Israel.
Seriously. That is what the left wants and why they have been giving such insane aid and comfort to Iran.
Years ago, the saying was that it’s dangerous to make the U.S. your enemy, but it’s suicidal to make the U.S. your ally.
Indeed. Because our politics is so mercurial, it behooves any nation to become our ally.
Doesn’t matter. Dementia Joe isn’t influencer on the world stage. He is perceived by world leaders as cognitively impaired lame duck, trying to not fall down in public again before next election.
Joe is most certainly a bad apple, what we need is to understand who the puppet masters are identified and what their roles are.
Mr. 10%’s goal is to make the Mideast “Challenge” go away before the Fall election.
10% will try to get a “solution,” which stops the gunfire for now.
However, the “solution” is bound to blow-up with a brand-new battle in the future.
Israel urgently needs its own reliable source for arms.
Not only will this cause Israel to manufacture their own arms, it will turn them into a competitor on the international market.
It’s the “New American Way”…. seize defeat from the jaws of victory. The US has mishandled hot wars since after WWII. The Cold War didn’t end hot because the Russian chose not to. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq (final outcome), Afghanistan… now Ukraine and forcing Israel with Gaza.
Israel winning is bad optics for “improving” relations with Iran and MidWest voter block. Can the Dems “trust” their Islamic Street Army if they continue to support the Jewish State?
It really started with Truman’s pathetic change in US policy during the Korean War in which he declared that victory was not the goal, but ‘not losing’.
Truman did a great job holding off for unconditional surrender by Japan in WWII (the only way things could have ended well – and they ended as well as possible … best in history), but he was emotionally spent after that and never should have run for re-election. In Korea, he reverted back to his natural mealy-mouthed ideas and set the US on a trajectory to lose every war after – since victory has not been the main US goal in any war since WWII.
With the Western leftist nihilists of today we have added totally suicidal aims into US strategic war thinking. It is claimed that we should be punished severely if we ever DO win a war.
Crazy times. The craziest ever.
I guess we could nail it down to Truman’s renaming of the War Department to the Department of Defense in 1949 (though the renaming was started in 1947 with the Secretary of Defense).
Before that, when the Truman Admin said South Korea was not a significant part of his Asian doctrine… ushering the invasion.
The Biden Admin was fine with everything as long as it was just theater with Hamas surviving and the show continuing.
What the admin can’t handle is actual change.
“What the admin can’t handle is actual change.”
One wonders why.
— Israel, no longer tangled in bare survival could start pursuing its own interests. Inconvenient, that.
— Easier to buy off others on little things, if they need money for their proxies.
The last thing US Foreign Policy Apparatus wants in the Mid East is stable, peaceful relations between stable, developing nation-states. So, of course Brandon wants no resolutions. He is a creature of navigating the institutions he now, in principle directs.
Don’t make it sound like you regret disobeying him, Bibi. Stand up and continue to tell him to pound sand.
Although this current conflict likely does not paint Israel into a really bad corner, that day may eventually come, especially if settling for half victories. Does anyone think that they would not then use ALL the weapons at their disposal?
I would publicly tell the Biden administration that Hamas is free to lay down their weapons and surrender whenever they like – just like Japan or Germany. Privately, I would tell them that, absent weapons supplies, they will be forced to pump water into all the Rafah tunnels and drown the rats, which would include few if any Gazan civilians.
I think the real issue is that this pressure isn’t coming from Biden. Anyone who
Has seen this shell of a man walking around like a decrepit old Alzheimer’s sufferer knows he isn’t making these calls.
It’s the people pulling the strings behind the scenes that’s the real problem here. Biden is merely their puppet.
Secondly, and this is a bigger problem. Hamas has been in control of Gaza for the last 18 years and in that time it has not invested a single cent in to education and health and making the lives of your average Gaza better.
Instead Hamas has been beavering away behind the scenes for 18 years producing sociopaths, psychotic sociopaths! And after a generation of brainwashing they have their army of committed young men and women prepared to die while trying to kill Jews.
These will be the problem people once Hamas is removed and unless the international community is prepared to go full “de-nazification” on these brainwashed people then nothing will change in the area. It will still be packed full of racists only far too prepared to rape babies in front of their parents before throwing them in an oven.
Obama was in London yesterday, went to see the PM
Hmmm
That’s pathetic.
Biden so infirmed, and kamala such a dingbat, he has to send BHO instead.
smh
1) Ukraine
2) Gaza
3) Both
Planning a “color revolution” in Israel BHO?
The UK has (had) fingers in both regions.
The first of 5 lectures on Russia viewable from Hillsdale College highlights the major similarities of the 1850’s Crimean War to the present one….especially with Britain and France. Of course, both have had their fingerprints all over the Middle East.
Given that actual foreign policy tends to differ from the populist rhetoric of our leaders, I am hoping this is just more phony red meat for Biden’s base, and that Israel will ultimately not lose US support when defeating Hamas. But, it is getting pretty difficult to maintain that hope.
I’d love to think so, but the Biden Mistrimination is simply too stupid, greedy and pigheaded to engage in such subtlety. More like “You defy me? I’ll show YOU!” And on with stupid, self-defeating, destructive, costly actions. Because elections. Biden delenda est.
Which will be the snake, and which is the heel?
Vile Biden and the rest of the manifestly evil, stupid and despicable Dhimmi-crats are the enemies of all that is good, decent and morally upright. In enabling and empowering genocidal, goose-stepping Muslim supremacists and terrorists, these reprobates are as evil and feckless as those people who collaborated with, and, gave moral cover to, German national socialists in WWII.
I’m a little short on 155 and 120 but I’ll happily contribute a can of 5.56 if Biden insists on screwing Israel (again).
The entire world knows that America is a great ally until it stabs itself in the back.
Give unlimited to Ukraine, a tenuous ally at best, and deny Israel, a long time ally and key strategic partnership in the ME…makes perfect sense of you hate you everything about America.
So a major American political party, with a sitting President and a senior Senator leading the way, are now fighting hard for the survival of Hamas, a terrorist organization. I never thought I would ever see it. BiBi better start manufacturing his own arms soon. The next generation of Anti Semitic leftists are even worse than Brandon and Company. Hamas kidnapped American Citizens that day and the Dems are fighting for the kidnappers. We are long way from the America I grew up in, and it’s very sad to watch the decline in real time. Pray that Trump can overcome all the fraud. It may be Israel’s only hope. May God Bless Israel and the IDF…
Among the attributes of national sovereignty [alongside recognized and controlled borders, which we do not have ourselves] is that their policies are governed by what they themselves deem to be their national interests and not the dictates of outsiders.
Right now, not only Israel but also any other ally who formally or otherwise has been depending on the United States to support them in a crisis needs to:
a) Assume that such support cannot be expected and make arrangements to defend themselves by whatever means necessary. This may include developing strategic weapons.
b) Assume that military aid from the US cannot be depended upon.
c) Make alternative arrangements for both military logistics AND such non-military trade as may occur already as an option in the event of American betrayal.
d) Limit the access of Americans to strategic information about or developed by said ally.
e) Stockpile materials against any future American embargo/boycott.
Subotai Bahadur
Coming soon to your very good list is stop purchasing US Debt (already slowing) and begin transition away from $US in currency reserve to alternative fiat currency as well as increasing gold reserves (also already beginning).
If Israel cut off technical cooperation, shortly I suspect most of our infrastructure would start looking like 737 MAX’s i.e. all sort of failures and stupidities, a lack of decent new ideas.
I would like to be a fly in the room and hear what Biden and Netanyahu say exactly, and hope Netanyahu has the stones to directly tell Biden to shove it up your ass, pal!
Finally Israel has some hostages too. If Biden follows through with this, all Israel has to do is knock down those planes coming to airdrop food to their enemy.
Europe has been cutting down on arms supplies to Israel. I just read that Canada has decided to halt them completely. We’re “slow walking” supplies and threatening to cut them off.
But here’s the thing: if the rest of the world isn’t going to support Israel in their struggle, why should Israel give two craps about what the rest of the world wants them to do? They’ve been bending over backward to provide “humanitarian supplies” to Hamas at the world’s insistence. They’ve been giving warnings before attacks so “civilians” can be evacuated, thus allowing the high ranking Hamas leaders warning and time to escape. They’ve been avoiding the destruction of “civilian” sensitive facilities like hospitals even though they’ve proven beyond a doubt that Hamas is using them for military purposes. They have accepted Biden’s commitment to airdrop food and medical supplies to Hamas and his commitment to build a floating dock so more supplies can be shipped in.
If we’re abandoning them, why should they continue those things? By abandoning Israel, Biden is giving up any leverage he had to demand that Israel do things a certain way.
If Israel isn’t going to have the resupply of arms they need for a sustained campaign against Rafah, they may just decide they need to get it over as quickly as possible and just flat take the gloves off. Shock and awe. Kill ’em all and let Yahweh sort ’em out.
You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is “Never trust the main stream media“ But only slightly less well known is this: “Never get involved in a war thinking Democrats will support you long term”