In the days after the Hamas invasion, the White House deployed the president’s top diplomats and military advisers in a frantic, prolonged mission to stave of a worst-case scenario of a wider Middle East conflict.
Returning from a trip to Israel, President Biden departs Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews on Thursday. Within days of pledging “rock solid and unwavering” support for Israel in the wake of Hamas’s vicious Oct. 7 attack that left at least 1,400 Israelis dead,began gently reminding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that “democracies like Israel and the United States are stronger and more secure when we act according to the rule of law.
“It’s a really important opportunity when you’re there to really talk through how the Israelis are approaching what is in many ways a historic challenge,” a senior U.S. defense official said in an interview. “Waging the war in a humane way doesn’t just give Israel a moral high ground, it also makes sense strategically,” said another U.S. official.Last Monday, the White House decided that it would take Biden to bring the message home. As his trip to Israel was being planned — the first for a U.S. president in Israel’s wartime — it was decided that Biden should also travel to Jordan, where he would meet with King Abdullah II.
wasn’t going to come. In Jordan, a close U.S. ally that had its own problems with a massive Palestinian population, the street demonstrations were growing, amid charges that the hospital had been hit by an Israeli airstrike. In a statement issued as he traveled, the president said he was “outraged” by the hospital explosion. The United States, he said, “stands unequivocally for the protection of civilian life during conflict.”
After he called Sisi from his plane, Biden told reporters on board that he had confirmed with Egypt and Israel that the first 20 trucks of humanitarian aid could safely enter Gaza, most likely on Friday.on the situation, performing the now-familiar balancing act between unwavering support for Israel and commitment to help the Palestinians. He said he was asking Congress for an extra $106 billion in supplemental funding, much of it for weapons for both Israel and Ukraine.
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