President Biden and other senior U.S. officials are becoming increasingly frustrated with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rejection of most of the administration’s recent requests related to the war in Gaza, four U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the issue told Axios.
Why it matters: Since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack 100 days ago, Biden has given Israel his full backing, with unprecedented military and diplomatic support, even while taking a political hit from part of his base in an election year. That support has largely continued publicly, but behind the scenes, there are growing signs that Biden is losing his patience, the U.S. officials said.
- “The situation sucks and we are stuck. The president’s patience is running out,” one U.S. official told Axios.
- “At every juncture, Netanyahu has given Biden the finger,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who has been in close contact with U.S. officials about the war, told Axios. “They are pleading with the Netanyahu coalition, but getting slapped in the face over and over again.”
Behind the scenes: Biden hasn’t spoken to Netanyahu in the 20 days since a tense Dec. 23 call, which a frustrated Biden ended with the words: “This conversation is over.” They had spoken almost every other day in the first two months of the war.
- Before Biden hung up, Netanyahu had rejected his request that Israel release the Palestinian tax revenues it’s withholding.
- National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby tried to downplay the decrease in communication, telling reporters on Wednesday that “it doesn’t say anything” about the state of the relationship.
- But more and more signs of irritation are emerging. “There is immense frustration,” a U.S. official said.
0.004% of all Palestinian have been killed. 1% of the Palestinians in Gaza. Daily death tolls have been falling.
What evidence is there of genocide?
It sounds like you are complaining the genocide isn’t going fast enough.
No I’m saying these numbers are proof positive that s genocide is not taking place. The daily numbers are going down with 99.996% of the Palestinian population still alive. What kind of genocide is that?
Forget it, Lemmy is hell bend that Israel is the new Nazi-Area Germany. I agree with you that there is no genocide. There are lot’s of war crimes, but no genocide.
Fuck off to Truth Social then, propaganda bot. 20,000 dead innocent Palestinians, mostly women and children, referred to as sub-human animals by the Israelis, bUt No GeNoCiDe HeRe!
Yeah, never heard “sub-human animals” in regards to Palestinians from Israelis in the last 20 years. Only in regards to Hamas and I tend to agree with that notion.
These people got tricked and they cannot believe evidence before their eyes.
This is the equivalent to thinking someone is going to win a marathon if they are limping and have slowed to a walk after 400 feet.
There were 150 times more Iraqi civilians killed per capita in the US war in Iraq and I have never once heard a single person call it a genocide.
Israel has the ability to level Gaza and the West Bank and kill every Palestinian person within about twenty minutes and yet they have not done so.
Instead, were three months into this “genocide” and 99.996% of the Palestinian people are still there.
It seems to me that Israel is targeting the tunnel infrastructure im Gaza City and known Hamas militants, who use their families and public infrastructure including school, hospitals, and apartment building to conceal the 800 tunnel shafts the IDF have documented in Gaza City.
Also, some 90% of the airstrikes have been in a tiny area of Gaza City, at the tunnels from which Hamas launched the October 7 attach and to which they retreated. Israel issued emergency text and OTA broadcasts warning civilians to evacuate and not to go near the blockade. I’ll agree the blockade and occupation were illegal, but Gaza no has has now functional ability to govern itself, let alone rebuild the infrastructure.
Good thing genocides aren’t declared over percentages, but hard numbers. Over 20,000 innocent Palestinians have been murdered by the IDF. Genocides start at 5000.
What? It’s not a question of numbers but a question of intent. I’m saying the numbers as they stand are not evidence of such intent.
If the daily numbers of people dying was going up instead of down, such numbers would tend to prove genocidal intent.
Maybe it’s 5,000 people if the total number of people is 25,000 or something. That would be 20%. That would tend to prove genocidal intent.
Other things I would consider strong evidence: air strikes on civilian targets without no credible military justification, precision, or proportionality, would tend to prove genocidal intent.
Israel is literally doing all of what you have described in your last paragraph, go see a therapist because you have lost all empathy
You got tricked. The IDF has been pretty transparent. Link me a specific example of what you’re talking about and maybe I can help you understand how you’ve gotten mixed up.
Thankfully the UN and Geneva Convention don’t require us to wait for the oppressed population to be dead to declare a genocide. What Israel is doing meets the definition.
What are you going to do when South Africa’s complaint gets thrown out kn the papers?
Shrug. The world pretty much expects that the court is there for enemies of the Western countries anyways. I’ll be happy if they rule against Israel but not surprised if they don’t.
What will you do when it doesn’t?
Read the decision and factual allegations, the tribunal’s statement of the law, and it’s analysis, and figure out what information I lack right now that would have informed a more accurate assessment. That’s what I do when I’m wrong about a case.
ok buddy. I’m just going to believe your made up numbers. But it’s ok, keep sucking that Israeli cock.
If you don’t know where these numbers came from you don’t know enough about this to have opinions. Kindly stop posting about this.
they came from your mouth. you’re the one that didn’t post your source. you expect everyone to just take your word for it? yeah no. not trusting some rando online that supports what israel is doing. killing women and children indiscriminately is indefensible and if you try you’re just as bit of a piece of shit as the zionists that are attempting to wipe a group of people from the face of the earth.
Again if you think I just made them up, were not aware of them yourself, and have no idea about how they are tabulated, then I don’t believe that you’ve been following along closely enough to really have strong opinions about what’s happening.
Indiscriminate killing? That’s bogus. The IDF told civilians to leave. Hamas used human shields. You can criticize Israel for being overzealous with collateral deaths, but saying they are indiscriminate is just not true. Surprise surprise you don’t know basic facts about the war and you got tricked by a lie.
They were told to leave, and then prevented from leaving through the only crossing at Rafah. Then the refugee camps at Rafah were bombed.
Egypt controls the southern border. Humanitarian corridors were respected with a handful of exceptions. 70 deaths are attributed to such attacks.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_Palestinians_evacuating_Gaza_City
I have not reviewed each one and compared it to what IDF says on its official website.
I’m not finding much info for an airstrike on Rafah. It’s. Not on this page, which is well edited:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_engagements_during_the_2023_Israel–Hamas_war
In 2025, there will be more Palestinians on earth than there were in 2023.
That’s the reality of this situation.
That doesn’t mean a genocide isn’t happening. A net decrease in population isn’t the criteria to announce that genocide is occurring. Just the total number of dead.
So what’s the number? I’ve never seen a genocide defined by a number but teach me something today. From a demographic perspective, this isn’t 1% of Palestinians. Syria has well over a half million dead in their conflict, not seeing people lining up calling that a genocide. There were around a million dead as a result of the Iraq war, was that a genocide?
Genocide is about intent as much as numbers, there are millions of Arabs living in Israel with rights and privileges that clearly show the intent is not genocidal.
FactBased and jew pilled