Israel planned to launch a preemptive strike against Hezbollah on October 11 which was narrowly averted due to intervention from U.S. President Joe Biden, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.
The assault plan came on the heels of Hamas’ invasion of southern Israel and, according to the report, was based on intelligence Israel had that Hezbollah attackers were preparing to cross the border as part of a multi-pronged attack. The U.S. reportedly deemed the information unreliable.
Biden reminding Bibi to keep his eyes on the prize. You can’t properly focus on genociding Gaza if you have to fight Hezbollah as well.
Im all for hating Biden, but this is ultimately a good thing?
Or do people want the war to expand to the whole region so more civilians get affected?
There are “people” here who go out of their way to frame everything good Biden does as something bad.
They can’t even just pick something bad. They have to attack the good thing specifically.
Israel is arrogant enough to think they can fight multiple wars at the same time. Biden and others have made the best effort to warn them against it, but if Netanyahu wants to risk the entire country just to grab more land then what can we do to stop him?
What can we do?idk have our president tell their leader that they’re dumb and not to do it. Basically exactly what occurred. Less people dying is good.
We can do MUCH more than that. Currently Biden is giving $8 Billion a year to Israel and is Congress for an additional $14 Billion, and is vetoing UN Security Council resolutions that criticize Israel and quietly blocking their investigations into war crimes. Biden could add conditions to the aid (he already blocked shipments of rifles because they were going to arm settlers who were committing attacks on unarmed Palestinians), he could block the additional aid or heavy weapons shipments or he could abstain and let the UN Security Council actually order Israel to stop violating the Geneva Conventions.
Sure, it’s good. But it shows that the Americans have the influence to tell Israel which targets to attack, and they’re not using it to tell them to avoid attacking hospitals, schools, their own hostages, etc.
As with everything, it’s wholly inadequate.
Or they don’t?
“Be more selective with targets”
“No”
“Well at least don’t fuckin launch a cross-border attack”
“Maybe”
See how that can work? The American response HAS been inadequate, but it’s because they continue to supply the genocide in Gaza, not because they’re trying to reign in the extremists