Politics….
Well aware that President Biden was coming off as unable to get Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to stop his military actions against Hamas , who was firing rockets at Israel….(Israeli Intel was providing intel to the US Government on the Hamas actions)
The Biden people have provided NBC News with an inside look at things from their point of view of ‘slow and deliberate’ President Biden dealt with the situation….
Biden has a bad history with Netanyahu from his Vice Presidential days…
The Israeli Prime Minister is currently under indictment for corruption and has recently failed in his 4th attempt to form a government…
Hamas and other Palestinian groups are infighting….
All of this IS going on in real time at once….
Biden and his people are probably trying to give us a view as a explanation of how it might have seemed like the President wasn’t getting anywhere, but was in fact laying the ground to get the Israeli’s and Hamas to stop their punching back and forth…
In the end Biden also got help from Egypt for dealing with Hamas….
As the first rocket fire was exchanged between Israel and Hamas, President Joe Biden settled on a strategy. And as he had throughout the 2020 campaign, Biden adhered to it despite mounting criticism from Republicans and even his own Democratic Party.
His approach was stylistically muted and substantively more hard-line than some of his allies had expected. It was driven by a singular goal: to end the violence as soon as possible so he could train his focus back onto his domestic agenda.
To accomplish that, Biden chose not to publicly lay bare disagreements with his Israeli counterpart, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, although the two have their differences. He said little publicly about the issue and entertained few questions about the topic. During a trip to Michigan this week, Biden even joked about running over a reporter who wanted to ask him a question about Israel. And he backed Netanyahu’s assault on Gaza to an extent that surprised some fellow Democrats and angered others….
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The White House cast the cease-fire announcement Thursdaybetween Israel and Hamas as a victory for what it had dubbed “quiet, intensive diplomacy” led by Biden. This account of how Biden navigated the first major foreign policy crisis of his presidency is based on conversations with 10 administration officials and others with knowledge of the strategy.
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“It’s a lousy hand of cards, but the Biden team has played it as best they can,” a person close to the White House said….
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The Israeli government was always prepared to lose the global public relations battle and take heat from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party. But Israeli officials were surprised to lose the battle among more centrist congressional Democrats, particularly Murphy, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., a member of the Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees. When Murphy and Kaine called for a cease-fire, Israeli officials knew the pressure was going to mount.
That gave Biden leverage to increase the pressure on Netanyahu.
Yet while administration officials were confident that Biden could deal effectively with Netanyahu, they needed someone to restrain Hamas. Four days before the cease-fire was announced, Egypt showed that it could play that role. The Egyptians told the U.S. that Hamas’ long-range rockets would stop going into Tel Aviv — and they did….
Note…
Remember…
Both Biden and Netanyahu KNOW that in the end?
America CANNOT abandon Israel in any real sense ….
But the Israeli Prime Minister DOES need America in its corner in the long run politically and militarily ….