President Biden told Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a call on Saturday that the U.S. won't support any Israeli counterattack against Iran, a senior White House official told Axios.
America is already involved ..
Without the billions of dollars we give them, and the military support of putting troopa and ships right off the coast, Israel never would have attacked Iran to begin with.
But even if that wasn't true, Biden has a horrible record of not assisting with Israels genocides.
Great news. Hopefully that means if Israel does it anyway they will pay a price too heavy to bear, and we can put the whole "escalate to cover our Gaza situation" thing to bed.
I don't see Iran going so hard that's on the table. The last strike was beautifully calibrated to re-establish deterrence while doing little politically useful damage, for example.
The real goal here for Israel is to bolster Netanyahu's hold on power. Iran would just have to hit back hard enough it makes his situation worse, not better, and they could safely do that without the US umbrella. Of course, it all depends on what "won't support" means. Time for me to read the article.
If you cheer on Iran's strikes on Israel, remember that in addition to Jewish Israelis, Arabs, Palestinians, Muslims & Christians could lose their lives in the attack. Iranian projectiles endanger Ramallah, Bethlehem, Nablus, Amman, Lebanon, Syria & Iraq. War's not an online game
Some retaliation seems necessary. Unless someone hits back the israeli bullying will continue. Bidens refusal to tell israel to stop trying to start WW3 is what got us here to begin with.
My hope is that he's building up to that. The continued escalation in criticism suggests that's what he's doing; immediately cutting off aid will signal to other allies that he's capricious and having an insufficient legal justification will open him up to impeachment and removal. Of course, it could all be show for the base.
Why would Netanyahu believe him? I certainly don't. Slaughtering tens of thousands of people has gotten the same kind of "warnings" followed by billions more in lethal aid.