Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant heads to #Washington to discuss the next phase of the #Gaza war and escalating hostilities on the border with #Lebanon, where exchanges of fire with Hezbollah have stoked fears of wider conflict.https://t.co/Jkj0C38JxJ pic.twitter.com/mCrtqU1UX1
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) June 23, 2024
I thought the US was trying to stop this???
Are they actually trying to start it to distract from Palestine???
Israel’s defence minister has flown to meet senior Biden administration officials in Washington for what he has described as “critical” talks over the twin conflicts with Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Yoav Gallant, accompanied by the Israel Defense Forces’ deputy chief of staff, will meet the US defence secretary, Lloyd Austin, as well as the secretary of state, Antony Blinken, and Joe Biden’s special envoy Amos Hochstein.
Gallant’s visit came as Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, repeated his claim that the Biden administration was presiding over a “dramatic drop” in arms shipments to Israel in recent months, a charge that has angered US officials who have described it as “perplexing”.
💥As Defense Minister Yoav Gallant lands in DC, Netanyahu opens cabinet meeting by attacking the Biden administration. “About 4 months ago a dramatic slowdown in the transfer of armaments from the US began, we asked them to speed it up, and the situation remains unchanged.” pic.twitter.com/lNl82IzJwo
— Noga Tarnopolsky נגה טרנופולסקי نوغا ترنوبولسكي (@NTarnopolsky) June 23, 2024
In a statement on Sunday, Netanyahu reiterated his resistance to ending the war in Gaza – one of Hezbollah’s conditions for de-escalation – while Hamas is still in place.
Describing his visit, Gallant said: “During these meetings I plan to discuss developments in Gaza and Lebanon. These [discussions] are particularly important and impactful at this time. We are prepared for any action that may be required in Gaza, Lebanon and in additional areas.”
America is prepared for anything, Jews.
All her holes are open to the chosen ones.
Some Israeli officials have linked a push into Rafah, the southern area of Gaza where it says it is targeting the last battalions of Hamas, to a potential refocus on the border with Lebanon, where escalating exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah have increased fears of a wider war there too.
Gallant appeared to make the same link in his statement. “The transition to phase C in Gaza is of great importance. I will discuss this transition with US officials, how it may enable additional things and I know that we will achieve close cooperation with the US on this issue as well,” he said.
Amid concerns that fighting with Hezbollah could escalate into a wider war, the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, repeated threats that his movement would strike widely throughout Israel.
The Lebanese armed group on Saturday evening published a video showing Israeli positions and coordinates, along with an excerpt of a speech last week in which Nasrallah said: “If war is imposed on Lebanon, the resistance will fight without restrictions or rules.”
Yeah, it’s gonna be an old-fashioned hoedown.
The US will have to help.
Iran is going to help the other side.
Russia too, one would have to assume.
Smart thinking by the Americans and their masters once again.
⚡️BREAKING
Hezbollah has just released a video entitled “whoever thinks of war against us will regret”
The video shows all the strategic sites in Israel that Hezbollah intends to target pic.twitter.com/GjB1BspaUt
— Iran Observer (@IranObserver0) June 22, 2024