Israel (now broader Mid East discussion)

SamAndreas said
I've taken some time viewing the response from the US and around the world. It's my opinion that Israel has used it's grace period which was generated by Hamas' sneak attack, however that period of grace is now over.

In so far as support from our current administration in Washington, Israel's options are quite limited to only directly attacking Hamas, without a broad ground offensive in Gaza.

It's been approximately 20 days of grace. Now it's over. The US will certainly defend Israel from attack from outside powers like Iran. However the US will not sanction a broad attack upon the civilians in Gaza, nor in my opinion should they.

An interesting letter from Biden to the House and Senate came across my attention while assessing the world state of opinion. This letter reads into this Israel Issue, although it doesn't mention Israel. It shows where the limits are. Very limited attacks which were "to limit the risk of escalation and avoid civilian casualties."

It is almost like that message is focused upon Israel.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing...he-war-powers-resolution-public-law-93-148-4/

I saw that letter. I agree 100%. Isreal has to tread carefully going forward. They need to detain and remove obvious civilians found on the battlefield and provide passage to south Gaza or to a safe agreed upon location and do what they need to do in northern Gaza.

Bibi doesn't have much goodwill left and I'm pretty much at the limit as well. I don't know how much we've learned from our mistakes made post 9/11, but once we went beyond Afghanistan I became far more skeptical about our 9/11 response. And we took a lot longer than 20 days.

The thing is, Gaza is a far, far different situation than anything else because there are so many civilians still in harm's way. It's sad.

I really wish Israel had taken a cue from what we did and build a coalition that would have given far more time for Israel deal with Hamas. They don't have that luxury now and unfortunately, they're gonna overplay their hand and end up isolating themselves, which will lead to who knows what.

Biden and NATO need to talk some sense into Bibi...but good luck with that. I think the Israeli people need to make it clear to Bibi that this isn't what they want. That might be the only thing that would persuade him.