The American newspaper The Washington Post said in a report titled “The White House is frustrated by Israel’s attack, but sees few options.” The White House is frustrated by the Israeli attack, but sees only limited options.

The newspaper close to the Biden administration explained in its report that the United States’ calls for a temporary halt to the bombing have little effect, and the shape of the post-war Middle East is very uncertain.

According to the journalist, the administration of US President Joe Biden has come to feel that it is cornered, and it currently finds itself in a dangerous situation due to the continuation of this war.

According to the newspaper, administration officials say that the Israeli counterattack against Hamas has been severe and extremely costly in terms of civilian casualties, and lacks a coherent end and vision, but they are “unable to exert significant influence on America’s closest allies in the Middle East to change its course.” ".

According to the newspaper, “tension between the American administration and Israel has emerged recently, due to the failure of American efforts to persuade Israel to reduce its counterattack in response to the attack carried out by Hamas on October 7, which left at least 1,400 people dead, according to the Israeli authorities.”

The newspaper explains, "The Biden administration urged Israel to refrain from a ground invasion of Gaza, and specifically asked it to observe proportionality in its attacks, and called for giving a higher priority to avoiding the killing of civilians, and called for a humanitarian truce, but Israeli officials reject all of these calls."

The newspaper says, “The Israeli determination to continue the invasion of Gaza has prompted the Biden administration, as the newspaper indicated, to urgently seek to calm anger in the Arab world by making clear, publicly and privately, that the United States feels deeply saddened by the suffering in Gaza,” but Arab leaders were not “affected” by these guarantees, which makes the shape of the post-war Middle East, and the role of the United States in it, highly uncertain.

Experts believe that tension has begun to increase between the US administration and Israel, coinciding with the increased risk of collision between Washington's two crucial goals: eliminating Hamas and avoiding the outbreak of a regional war.

Experts also believe that “if the war expands to include Lebanese Hezbollah and other Iranian-backed groups, it will pose a serious threat to Israel, increase the risk of international terrorism, and will harm many American interests.”

It is noteworthy that Washington tried to quietly press for a more gradual approach to eradicating Hamas instead of launching a large-scale ground invasion, fearing that such large-scale operations would lead to a huge number of civilian casualties, according to statements from American officials before the start of the ground attack on November 29. the past.

The Washington Post claims that the Biden administration has achieved modest successes in its own discussions with Israel, according to a senior administration official who requested anonymity, including convincing Israel to restore communications and the Internet to Gaza at the end of last month, reopening water taps and persuading it to allow a small number Trucks carrying humanitarian aid enter through the Rafah border crossing in Gaza with Egypt.

When President Biden spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week, “he and his senior aides were able to secure a commitment to set a goal of allowing 100 trucks per day to pass through the Rafah crossing, which American officials say is now being achieved,” according to the newspaper.

However, the newspaper believes that these successes were overshadowed by the miserable failure of the United States to influence the course of the Israeli military campaign. Biden's senior aides have also been frustrated by the lack of clear answers from Israeli officials about the objectives of the operation and what they expect the future in Gaza to look like if they are able to succeed in their goal of destroying Hamas.