Israel Withdrawing Some Troops from Gaza, US Reportedly Claims Credit

Joe Biden has committed “unconditional support” to the Jewish mass murder machine. He surrendered any form of leverage.

Netanyahu has basically no domestic support, other than from very committed war supporters who are also delusional enough to think that you can win a war by indiscriminately slaughtering women and children.

Regardless, this debacle can’t really go on forever, and it would effectively take forever to “destroy” Hamas.

RT:

Israel’s withdrawal of troops from Gaza indicates that it is “listening” to Washington, which has long urged West Jerusalem to shift to low-intensity military operations, Politico reported Wednesday.

It comes after the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced last weekend that it would withdraw five brigades from combat in Gaza, comprising thousands of soldiers.

The IDF’s decision to reduce its troop presence in the Palestinian enclave is seen as “a signal that Israel is beginning to finally shift away from large-scale bombing and more toward targeted, surgical strikes on senior Hamas leaders,” as Washington has repeatedly urged, amid a rising civilian death toll among Gazans, Politico reported, citing unnamed US officials.

Part of why they are so focused on killing random children is that they can’t kill any Hamas.

How are they going to start killing Hamas, this deep in?

What do the troops have to do with the bombings, even?

“What we’re seeing is the beginning of a transition,”one official said, while another added that Washington was “pleased to see the shift” but wished it had happened much sooner, according to the outlet.

The killing of Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri by a drone attack in a suburb of Beirut on Tuesday could be “another sign Israel is ready to shift to more surgical operations,” Politico’s source said.

They’re transitioning to war with Lebanon, then?

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati called the killing of Arouri “a new Israeli crime aimed at inevitably dragging Lebanon into a new phase of confrontation.”

In response, a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mark Regev, said that “whoever did this strike was very surgical and went for a Hamas target because Israel is at war,” without confirming or denying the IDF’s involvement.

LOL.

In mid-December, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan recalled that Washington has repeatedly urged Israel to shift its high-tempo military operation in Gaza to a “lower-intensity, surgical, focused, targeted campaign.” He added that once this phase is activated, there will be no sanctuary for Hamas leaders, as Israel has the right to go after those who planned and executed the October 7 attacks.

They can’t urge anything, because they pledged “unconditional support.”

Trust me, you cannot pledge unconditional support and then expect to have leverage. “Unconditional support” is a surrender of your ability to influence the actor whom you are supporting.

It looks like a win-win, where Israel gets to downscale and then blame the US, while the US can take credit.

What Netanyahu is going to do, I have no idea.

Probably, he will start bombing Iran more heavily, while getting the US to further engage in Yemen, and try to use this Gaza thing as a jumping off point for a much larger war.

I have always asserted that this is the goal, though it is not clear whether it will actually happen.