U.S. To Israel: Take Your Time With the Gaza Genocide
Top White House official refuses to put timeline on blockade, bombing campaign
Jon Finer, the U.S. deputy national security adviser, told the Aspen Security Forum that Washington will not give Israel any timeline to complete its war in Gaza, essentially giving Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu all the time he wants to bomb and starve the Gazan population.
“We have not given a firm deadline to Israel, not really our role. This is their conflict. That said, we do have influence, even if we don’t have ultimate control over what happens on the ground in Gaza,” he said, as reported by AntiWar.com.
Israel is working up plans for a long war in Gaza that will include a multiphase strategy that involves a cocktail of bombing campaigns and a ground invasion inside the battered enclave.
About 1.8 million Gazans—or 80 percent of the population—have been forced to flee their homes as Israel continues its war campaign
One source told The Financial Times last week that, “This will be a very long war…We’re currently not near halfway to achieving our objectives.” Another Israeli official told the paper that unlike previous wars, which ended, this one will not.
“The referee won’t blow the whistle and it’s over,” the official said.
TRENDPOST: John Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago, said in an interview last week that Israel wants a Palestinian population that submits to Israeli domination of greater Israel.
“You don’t want resistance,” he said. “You don’t want an intifada; you don’t want what happened on October 7. In fact, I think one of the principal reasons why the Israelis are pounding Gaza and killing huge numbers of civilians, punishing the civilian population in ways that clearly violates the laws of war it’s because they want the Palestinians to understand that they are not allowed to rise up and resist the occupation. That’s their goal. So, I think the Israelis would prefer that the Palestinians roll over and accept submission.”
Mearsheimer said he does not believe that Israel has the capability of destroying Hamas and—as the war drags on—and more Israelis die in the fight, the Israeli population will lose its appetite for the war.
“There no military solution for Israel here,” he said. “There has to be to a political solution.”
He said he believes Israelis are “quite interested in ethnic cleansing” and saw the Hamas attack as an opportunity to cleanse Gaza.
“But that’s not going to happen,” he said. “The Jordanians and the Egyptians have made it clear that that’s not happening. The U.S. has made it clear that that’s not happening.”
Nowhere to Go
About 1.8 million Gazans—or 80 percent of the population—have been forced to flee their homes as Israel continues its war campaign.
An Israeli diplomatic official told Channel 12 news that the IDF revised its plans for expanding operations in southern Gaza after last week’s visit by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Blinken reportedly told Israelis that they must do a better jump in preventing civilian casualties and avoid targeting hospitals and schools.
Vice President Kamala Harris, who was in Dubai, said, “Far too many Palestinian civilians have been killed and Israel must do more to protect innocent civilians.”
The Washington Post reported that Israeli officials said the second phase of the war would continue until Israel had achieved its goals.
“The war will be ongoing for whatever time it takes to completely destroy Hamas and get back the hostages,” Ofir Gendelman, the Israeli government spokesman, said, according to the paper.
TRENDPOST: Israel continues to have American politicians in its pockets, and firmly on the side of genocide.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., appeared on CNN and repeated his claim that the Israeli government needs to do whatever it needs to do to make sure it destroys Hamas.
“I don’t want any Palestinian to die, but how do you do this? Vice President Harris, tell Israel how to destroy Hamas in a way not to hurt innocent Palestinians and I’ll pass it along,” he said.
“The reason so many Palestinians are dying, I think, is because Hamas wants them to die. If you have ideas about lessening civilian casualties, let me know, I’ll tell Israel. But the idea of Hamas still standing when this is over would be the ultimate strategic failure,” he said.
He continued, “What is too many people dying in World War II after Pearl Harbor? Did the American public worry about how many people were dying to destroy Tokyo and Berlin? I know this is not the same, but it’s similar.”
Graham represents the worst this country has to offer, but shows the mindset in Washington.
Mearsheimer said there are two possible outcomes in this war: a two-state solution, or a return to Israel occupation and life under an apartheid government for Palestinians. The expansion of settlers in the West Bank shows that Israel and the U.S. are not serious about a two-state solution.
The Washington ZOG will always suck up and bow down to its Jewish masters.