Gallant Wants to 'Expand' Goals of War to Drag in U.S.

Israel wants to expand the war because the Biden-Harris administration has vowed to come to its defense against regional adversaries

Yoav Gallant meets with Antony Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, who has been criticized by Hamas of playing the role of Israel’s foreign minister.

Yoav Gallant, the Israeli defense minister who called Palestinians in Gaza “human animals” before ordering a U.S.-backed humanitarian blockade on the enclave, says he wants to expand the war so Israelis displaced from the north can return home.

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“The task on the northern front is still ahead of us, the safe return of the residents. To meet this goal we must expand the goals of the war. I will bring the issue before the prime minister and the cabinet,” Gallant said in a meeting with top Israeli defense officials, according to The Times of Israel.

Israel wants to expand the war because the Biden-Harris administration has vowed to come to its defense against regional adversaries. Vice President Kamala Harris assured Israelis that the weapons will continue flowing no matter how many Palestinians it kills in Gaza or the West Bank.

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese turned her attention to the brutal Israeli crackdown in the West Bank that the pro-Israel mainstream media have conveniently ignored.

She posted on X: “EMERGENCY IN THE WEST BANK & EAST JERUSALEM: Predictably, violence against all Palestinians under Israel's unlawful occupation is dangerously escalating. In the past 11 months, Israeli forces have killed 637 Palestinians, including 151 children, amid military assaults, raids, and settler-led pogroms in the West Bank/east Jerusalem. Israeli MFA's recent call to treat the West Bank as Gaza is deeply alarming. Are we blind to history repeating? The world's failure to protect Palestinians echoes its failures with Bosnians and Tutsis, despite promises made after the Holocaust to prevent such atrocities. Human rights are being buried altogether, one by one.”

Israel considers the West Bank as one of its frontlines.

Israel knows that a Trump administration would also come to Israel’s aid if it attacked Hezbollah or Iran because the Israeli military could not defeat either adversary in a conventional war.

TRENDPOST: The people who are negotiating on behalf of the U.S. to calm down tensions in the region are Jewish with close ties to Israel. Hamas called U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken the top diplomat for Israel and Hezbollah said it does not view Amos Hochstein, a Jewish man born in Israel who was somehow selected to represent American interests in the Middle East, as a “trustworthy negotiator.”

Kassem Kassir, an analyst close to Hezbollah, told The Guardian that “there is no currently no alternative” to the U.S. diplomat.

The Trends Journal has noted that Hezbollah—like the Houthis—have said they would end the conflict the moment that Israel stops its massacre in Gaza.

It is also worth noting that the timing of the alleged Hezbollah attack (which Hezbollah denied doing) in the illegally Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights that killed 12 young Druze playing soccer could not have been better for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who used the attack as an all-out war with Hezbollah.

The attack occurred while he was flying back from addressing the U.S. Congress and getting assurances from American politicians that the military will come to the aid of Israel as it expands the war. 

More than 527 people in Lebanon, mostly fighters, have been killed, according to a tally from the AFP. Around 22 Israeli soldiers and 24 civilians have been killed in northern Israel since the Hamas attack.

Trita Parsi, the executive vice president of the Quincy Institute, posted an article from The Wall Street Journal about the latest round of killing by Israel in Gaza and Lebanon. 

He posted on X: “The U.S. sends warships to deter Iran and Hezbollah from attacking Israel, yet Biden does nothing to restrain Israel from attacking Gaza and Lebanon. Effectively, as a result, Biden’s policy is not to prevent escalation but rather to allow Israel to kill and escalate with impunity.”

Rep. Ilhan, D-Mich., laid into the Biden administration on Wednesday and asked how it’s possible that Israel—a country that relies fully on U.S. support—can humiliate Washington’s top diplomat, Antony Blinken, so publicly and so consistently. 

Omar, who is a Muslim representative from Michigan, addressed protesters outside the Democratic National Convention last week, which barred Palestinians from taking the stage.

“Now ask yourselves, how does our Secretary of State [Antony Blinken] travel 11 times begging for an end to a situation that we truly have continued to provide the bombs and the weapons that are creating that situation?” she asked.

“How do we allow our Secretary of State to go into Israel, say we are close to securing a ceasefire now for the 11th time, to leave for Egypt, only for [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu to have a press conference right after him and say we are not taking a deal that ends this war. How are we not ashamed that that is the humiliation that our administration’s representatives are faced with,” Omar told the “Uncommitted” movement’s press conference in Chicago, according to Clarion. “How are we not ashamed that that is the humiliation that our administration’s representatives are faced with? It’s not just the hypocrisy of saying we respect international law, but humiliation.”