American Jewish media reported that the additional $14 billion in military aid to Israel that President Biden was seeking was not only intended for the war on Gaza, but also to prepare Israel for a “multi-front war.”

On Wednesday, the Jewish Telegraph Agency (JTA) quoted a senior official in the Biden administration as telling the agency that the amount of $14 billion is allocated “to Israel to defend itself in a multi-front war and to ensure its ability to deter a multi-front war.”

Israel has intensified its air strikes in Lebanon against Lebanese Hezbollah, although many of the strikes have killed civilians. The cross-border exchange of fire threatens all-out war, and there is no sign that tensions will ease anytime soon. Israeli officials threaten to invade if Hezbollah does not retreat from the Israeli-Lebanese border.

American officials admitted to the Washington Post that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may view the war in Lebanon as the key to his political survival, as opinion polls showed that the Israelis want him to step down after the current conflict.

Israel also appears to be trying to provoke Iran, as several members of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have been killed in Israeli airstrikes in Syria since October 7. According to the New York Times, Israel was also behind a secret attack on two natural gas pipeline sites inside Iran.

The $14 billion comes within the $95 billion foreign military aid bill that was passed by the Senate but has not yet been put to the House of Representatives for a vote as Republicans are still searching for a border agreement. The legislation also includes about $60 billion for Ukraine, $4.8 billion for Taiwan, and other spending in the Asia-Pacific region.

It is noteworthy that the $14 billion provided to Israel is in addition to the $3.8 billion that Israel receives from the United States every year, and includes $5.2 billion allocated to Israeli missile defense, which is seen as a crucial necessity for the war with Hezbollah.

Another $3.5 billion will be allocated to compensate and renew the ammunition used by Israel in its war on Gaza. The United States will use $4 billion to replenish its own stockpiles, including emergency stockpiles in Israel that the Israeli army was authorized to use in the war on Gaza.

Since October 7, the United States has been shipping tons of bombs and other types of weapons almost daily. According to the Israeli news site Ynet, the United States shipped more than 25,000 tons of military equipment to support the Israeli massacre in Gaza, which resulted in the deaths of 30,000 Palestinians and the wounding of 65,000 citizens, the overwhelming majority of whom were children and women.