If there were any doubts about the dependence of Israel by American support, these may have been debunked by the latest revelations from Israeli officials. While between Washington And Tel Aviv one is being consumed unprecedented crisis in history, after the decision of Joe Biden to suspend the sending of weapons toJewish state‘ should he decide to enter a Rafah with the ground troops, this is explained by the anonymous statements collected by the broadcaster Kanaccording to which the decision of the United States to stop the shipment of armaments could force the Netanyahu government and the military leaders a review operational plans in the Strip, or adopt “an armaments economy“, that is, of conserve ammunition so that these do not end. A situation that could even push Israel, according to another source, to try to obtain supplies from other countries. The first decisions could be taken as early as Thursday evening, when the Israeli war cabinet will be convened, but the prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu he has already declared that “no pressure, no decision by any international forum will prevent Israel from defending itself. If Israel is forced to remain alone, Israel will remain alone.”
However, Joe Biden seems to have made his decision. He may be for purely electoral reasons or even for humanitarian and international credibility issues, but after 35 thousand deaths in Gaza and the promised invasion of Rafah by Israel he has personally reiterated that he will interrupt shipments of American weapons to Israel if the prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will order onelarge-scale invasion: “I clearly said a Bibi and to the war cabinet that they will not get our support if they actually attack these population centers,” he said in an interview with the CNN. The president explained that for the moment Israel’s actions have not surpassed this Red line, even if they have caused tensions in the region. “They did not enter populated centers,” he underlined despite the fact that Israeli tanks have already invaded, over the last 7 months, urban areas such as Gaza City, Beit Hanoun And Khan Younis. In his interview Biden also admitted that American bombs were used by Israel to kill civilians in Gaza: “Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a result of those bombs and other ways in which they attack population centers,” the president said, referring to the 2,000-pound (1,000 kg) bombs whose supply has already been suspended from the USA.
And the reaction from Tel Aviv was not long in coming. “Hamas loves Biden“, commented the Minister for National Security and leader of the radical right, Itamar Ben Gvir, who posted the two names joined by a red heart on X. Along the same lines, Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdanin an interview with Israeli television news Channel 12replied that what the occupant of the White House “was a comment very disappointingeven frustrating“. The diplomat interpreted the move as linked to political pressure on Biden from Congress, from the protests in campus Americans and the upcoming elections: “Naturally any pressure on Israel is interpreted by our enemies as something – added Erdan – that gives them hope. There are many American Jews who voted for the president and for the Democratic Party and now they are hesitant“. The Foreign Minister, Israel Katzhe instead declared that regardless of the decisions of others, Israel “will continue to fight Hamas until its destruction.”
While I negotiations in Cairo they are becoming more and more complicated, with Hamas having nevertheless announced that it has accepted the proposal advanced by the mediators, Israel does not stop and said he has started “aoperation in the area of Zeitunin the central part of the Strip, to continue dismantling and eliminating terrorist infrastructures terrorist operatives in the area”. Palestinian sources reported “intense air raids and of advance of tank” north of Gaza City and now comes the confirmation ofarmy of Tel Aviv: the operation – explained the IDF – is conducted by the 99th division and is based on intelligence information. So far, the Army added, “they have been 25 targets hit, including military facilities, tunnels, observation posts, sniper nests.” The ground troops – he concluded – are now “securing the Zeitun area”.
All this while the pressure increases in the southern part of the Strip with the tanks of the Israeli Security Forces which have been at the gates of Rafah, ready to enter the last city in the extreme south of the Strip. The Arab broadcaster Al Jazeera made it known that four people died and 16 others were injured in a bombing Israeli strike that last night hit a residential building in the city on the border with Egypt.
To make the situation in the Middle East even more tense, new threats fromIran. “We didn’t set out to build one atomic bombbut if Iran’s existence is threatened, there will be no choice but to change this military doctrine of ours,” said an advisor to the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khameneias reported by the agency Student News Network. In the early 2000s, Ayatollah Khamenei issued a fatwa which prohibited the development of nuclear weapons, calling them “haram“, that is, prohibited by Islam, but in 2021 the then Iranian Intelligence Minister said that Western pressure could push Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.
