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Mon 19 Feb 2024 7:14 am - Jerusalem Time
He Saved Israel from an ammunition crisis.. How did the American arms deal reveal the truth about Biden’s role in the Rafah attack?
The truest truth that expresses the position of the current American administration regarding the war on Gaza is that no matter how ferocious and extreme the Israeli war crimes are, none of them will prompt US President Joe to think about stopping the war on Gaza, or even cutting off the supply of American weapons to Israel and the financial support flowing to aid Israel. Israel is waging a war of annihilation, and this appears clear in its position on the upcoming Rafah attack.
This is what was concluded by a report by the American website The Intercept, which accused Biden of carrying out a propaganda stunt to deceive his voters, especially Arabs and Muslims, who are angry about his support for Israel, by broadcasting statements and leaks indicating that he is in disagreement with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the upcoming Rafah attack, while he is helping him. In its implementation.
On Tuesday, February 13, the US Senate approved sending more military aid (worth $14 billion) to Israel so that it can continue occupying Gaza and bombing the Palestinians there. Biden remains determined to reject global demands to call for an immediate halt to the Israeli military attack on the starving people of Gaza, most of whom lack any means of self-protection.
Biden supplies Israel with more lethal weapons while showing frustration with Netanyahu
However, Biden not only categorically rejected suggestions threatening to stop military sales to Israel, but his administration is currently preparing to send a new shipment of lethal ammunition to Tel Aviv, which it declares its insistence on carrying out the anticipated Rafah attack.
But since conservative estimates indicate that the death toll in Gaza is close to 30,000 people, including more than 13,000 children, White House propaganda officials have begun to worry about the impact on Biden’s chances of winning the US elections in 2024. Therefore, they are making efforts to It strives to promote a general image of the American administration’s sympathy with the people of Gaza, and to market allegations that Biden is fed up with what his friend Benjamin Netanyahu is doing. The campaign has mobilized to bring a measure of coherence to Biden's public discourse to mitigate the effects of his constant disastrous statements, most recently his claim that he had recently met with presidents who had been dead for decades.
Although the International Court of Justice formally accepted consideration of the lawsuit filed by South Africa accusing Israel of possible genocide in Gaza, and although it ordered a set of urgent measures to restrain Israel from committing acts that constitute the crimes of genocide, Tel Aviv did not hesitate to Intensifying its military operations, besieging hospitals, bombing civilian sites, and even preparing for a large-scale ground invasion in Rafah. This is despite the fact that the city harbors more than 1.4 million Palestinians who are trapped in an area not exceeding 65 square kilometers, after Israel ordered them to move there if they wanted safety.
Israel claims to be working on an “evacuation” plan for the area and to evacuate the displaced people trapped in Rafah. The word "evacuation" is in fact nothing but a description of further forced displacement of Palestinians under the threat of death, and it is a terrible thing for efforts now to focus on further terrorizing people instead of making efforts to save them.
The Biden administration has publicly claimed that it will not support an Israeli ground attack on Rafah, yet a transcript of Biden’s recent call with Netanyahu makes clear that the administration qualified this reluctance with a public condition that: “A military operation should not proceed without a credible and implementable plan that guarantees safety and support for civilians.” In Rafah.”
Israel proposes to establish tent cities for the displaced of Rafah, some of which are in Egypt
The American newspaper The Wall Street Journal reported that “Israel proposes to establish sprawling tent cities in Gaza, and that this comes as part of an evacuation plan funded by the United States and its partners in the Persian Gulf before the expected Rafah attack.”
The newspaper, quoting Egyptian officials, said that Egypt will establish 15 camp sites in southwest Gaza, each containing 25,000 tents and a field hospital.
Satellite images revealed that similar facilities are being established, but Egypt was reserved in answering questions about its position on this issue.
These developments indicate that the White House is aware that Israel is likely intent on launching a large-scale ground campaign against Rafah. This invasion may lead to a severe diplomatic crisis between Israel and Egypt, at a time when the White House hopes that Egypt will have an important participation in mediating a prisoner exchange deal and a 6-week truce.
Biden portrays himself as cautious about Israel's behavior, including the upcoming Rafah attack
Over the past four months, the White House issued similar statements expressing its grave concerns about the impending Israeli operations, including the successive Israeli attacks on hospitals in Gaza, but it quickly declared its support for Israel when it carried out them. The Biden administration has reportedly informed Israel that it supports strikes on specific targets in Rafah, and does not want a large-scale ground campaign.
Given the opportunism that pervades Washington’s policies, some of them claim that the Biden administration is seizing the opportunity of the deteriorating situation in Rafah, and if Netanyahu continues to violate the declared position of the White House, the American administration intends to exploit this to escalate its propaganda campaign and market its claims about its “almost exhausted patience” with Netanyahu's actions, and then use this to promote the fictitious story crafted by the US President's election campaign team, and say that Biden did his utmost to support Israel's right to self-defense, but that he will stop matters at a certain point if Netanyahu exaggerates in exploiting this support.
But evidence indicates that he will support it
However, recent evidence suggests that Biden will support the expected Rafah attack and the Israeli ground campaign on the densely populated city, provided that this is accompanied by some statements of concern and disappointment regarding the military methods followed by Israel, and then claiming that he was able to convince Israel to protect civilians. .
The White House took turns claiming some of this credit for itself, and claiming that it had succeeded in convincing Israel to be less criminal in its operations, and it continued these claims despite the Israeli army’s continued killing of almost countless numbers of Palestinian civilians, according to the American website’s description.
Biden and Netanyahu use similar evasion when dealing with the issue of the Palestinian state and the two-state solution. The American administration is dealing with the matter because it realizes that this issue is the focus of any agreement to normalize relations between Saudi Arabia and Israel, and moving towards this goal allows the White House to claim that it has achieved a triumphant political victory, even if nothing remains of Gaza but ruins.
Therefore, US administration officials have become increasingly interested in talking about the road map linking the establishment of a Palestinian state to ending the war, but Netanyahu strongly rejects any such idea. “Israel will not hesitate to reject any unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state,” Netanyahu said in a statement issued after a phone call with Biden on February 15.
Biden is fighting safe battles with Netanyahu
In fact, the Biden administration’s focus on the issue of “recognition of a Palestinian state,” as well as his criticism of the establishment of illegal Israeli settlements, are nothing but safe battles that Biden is waging against the politically weak Netanyahu. Because he realizes that it will not bring him significant consequences, while he does not make any effort to prevent the upcoming Rafah attack.
It has been clear for months that part of Biden's plan in dealing with the genocidal war in Gaza during the American election campaign is to place the lion's share of the blame on Netanyahu's political ship, and hope that this ship sinks at the appropriate time, so that he can use the matter to serve his electoral interests.
But in reality, he saved Israel from an ammunition crisis, and without him, the war would not have continued
American intelligence estimates issued a few days ago indicate that the current Israeli weapons stockpiles do not allow it to continue its war on Gaza for more than 19 weeks, which means that it cannot continue the war at that time unless Washington sends more ammunition.
Accordingly, Biden’s refusal to use his influence derived from being Israel’s primary source of weapons is clear evidence that the vulgar statements circulated by American officials and transmitted by media “leaks” regarding Biden’s growing frustration with Netanyahu are nothing but an electoral ploy, according to the American website.
Whatever “turn” Biden eventually takes to evade the political repercussions of the Gaza war, he will never be able to compensate for the countless opportunities that the past months of war witnessed in which he was presented with Israeli crimes that were worth exploiting to threaten to end military support and stop military sales. Weapons.
In fact, Biden and his companions consciously and deliberately made a decision to continue sending ammunition and weapons to Israel, despite the continuing massacres in full view of the world.
Biden is trying to deceive his voters by scaring them away from Trump
The reason that made the war on Gaza, including the expected Rafah attack, an internal electoral problem for Biden is the protest activity, especially from Americans of Palestinian origin.
The American website says: “It seems that the White House believes that it can save its share of the Arab American vote, and hopes that fears of another term for Donald Trump will motivate them to favor Biden in the elections, and overlook his terrible participation in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.”
But whatever happens in the November elections, we must never forget that it was Biden, and not the Americans who oppose the Israeli war and American support for it, who strengthened Trump’s chances of winning the upcoming elections, and that this guilt lies only with Biden and the democratic party establishment.
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He Saved Israel from an ammunition crisis.. How did the American arms deal reveal the truth about Biden’s role in the Rafah attack?