The phone call between US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had an immediate, as expected, development in the Middle East.
The 45-minute phone call between the US and Israel may have led to the immediate production of developments in the Middle East, but the question that is plaguing those who are directly and indirectly involved with what has happened since October 7th is no longer tomorrow but today.
Israel issued an official and lengthy statement on Friday about the 1her April in which seven people lost their lives, six of them foreign nationals, in which it is stated that the three members who participated have been held responsible.
Washington is seeking a permanent ceasefire
But that is not the point for the US. Nor is it that Netanyahu immediately gave and implemented the order to open the corridor north of Gaza.
For the US, the issue is a permanent cease-fire in the enclave, and this has not been given by Tel Aviv to Washington. High-ranking officials of the Netanyahu Government have not publicly stated themselves, as well as the Prime Minister himself for the blow which is certain to cost Israel dearly but mainly in time…
It is a given that today Biden is applying the tactics with which the USA is trying to apply in his days to all the forces that are openly hostile to Washington, except that Tel Aviv is not used to such a thing and most importantly it seems to believe that it won’t last long…
The Israeli approach is different
Netanyahu’s perception of US pressure as a “cap” is a highly dangerous situation far more dangerous than Blinken’s rejection of all US plans for a ceasefire and dialogue in the region.
Israel seems to believe that in 15 days at the most the situation will be in its favor again and that the Rafa operation that has been so “advertised” will be implemented.
At least this is what the energy minister of the country told CNNi, who had declared on October 15, just 8 days after the “Black Saturday” from Sderot to CNN Greece, that victory is only the “definitive elimination of Hamas from the face of the earth” however, with the question that we put to him at the time regarding the Government’s actions for the return of the hostages…
The front with Iran and the evacuations of Israeli embassies
In this climate, Israel does not seem to be taking the threat of retaliation from Tehran after its own strike on the Iranian embassy in Damascus with due caution.
Announcements of evacuations of Israeli embassies around the world alone do not solve the issue as now, after the funeral of the Revolutionary Guard generals and the peak of Ramadan, the regime in Iran is only in the mood for war.
Tel Aviv may well know that such a thing is not easy, but it believed the same for two years about a possible invasion of its territories by Hamas…
The dangerous situation in the region today, as the situation has developed, is Israel itself and the way it has chosen to manage the crisis at all levels. The feeling of pain, especially in the image that seems to be deeply and strongly experienced even by the extreme part of the Netanyahu Government, does not leave any room for a more positive development in the situation.
It is very likely that even those who choose to risk daily from both sides to save small children, women and civilians from starvation will withdraw from Gaza in the near future.
In such an eventuality, the only one who will be able to cut off the aid that the US clearly will not stop sending to the site in any way, will be either the IDF or Hamas. If that in itself is not tragic then the term does not exist…
If, within the next few days, there is also a terrorist strike targeting the “soft tissue” of Israel, either directly or through a “proxy” of Tehran, the US will almost certainly choose to condemn, but also refrain from the retaliation that they have long “pledged” that they will be there, whoever chooses to escalate against Tel Aviv.
Source: cnn.gr
