Biden speaks with Netanyahu as tensions rise over the war in Gaza
Biden speaks with Netanyahu as tensions rise over the war in Gaza
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🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary President Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday, their first call in over a month amid rising tensions over the war in Gaza.
National security adviser Jake Sullivan described a "business-like" meeting between two leaders with different perspectives about a proposed military operation on the city of Rafah in southwestern Gaza.
"Gaza's other major cities have largely been destroyed and Israel has not presented us, or the world, with a plan for how or where they would safely move those civilians, let alone feed and house them."
Biden asked Netanyahu to send a team of military and humanitarian officials to Washington to hear U.S. concerns and discuss an alternative strategy.
Sullivan said the meeting would give U.S. officials the opportunity to lay out an alternative approach "that would target key Hamas elements in Rafah and secure the Egypt Gaza border" without the need for a major ground invasion.
"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 said.
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I think you are naive if you think so. US military help is about 15% from Israeli military budget.
Plus there is still an issue of Hamas.
In my opinion, Biden’s administration approach to this conflict was and is quite good and balanced.
Biden’s administration approach to this conflict is to tacitly fund a genocide and veto all UN resolutions to end it, all while making weak protests.
Eventually it started shipping token humanitarian aid after several other countries started doing that - but I'm pretty sure it ships less aid for the Palestinians than bombs to be used on them.
Contrast with the US approach to a similar situation in Ethiopia's Tigray province a couple of years back, which involved economic sanctions.
Say what you want about Hamas but they're much better than the IDF.
I have seen idf carve the symbol of david on the back of a Palestinian. I didn't see hamas do it. So I will say hamas should exist.