(From Washington, United States) The forty minutes of communication between Joe Biden y Benjamin Netanyahu they exhibited the differences they have to resolve the Middle East crisis. While the President of the United States proposed diplomatic agreements con Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, the prime minister of Israel ratified his political decision to attack Iran and destroy all your terrorist organizations.
Biden supports Israel’s right to protect its existence from the combined attack of Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis and Islamic Jihad, but its proposal for a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon for humanitarian reasons is not priority in the war plan that Netanyahu is currently executing.
The Israeli Prime Minister promotes a war campaign which includes bombings in Gaza City and Beirut, a strong ground offensive in southern Lebanon and the destruction of selective targets in Syria and Yemen, while defining a deep attack to the Iranian regime.
The Democratic administration, on the other hand, maintains that Israel must be cautious to avoid a geopolitical fire in all Middle East. This key difference between Netanyahu and Biden it was not settled during the call that linked DC with Jerusalem.
Israel believes that it has a historical window to exterminate Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, and moves its military apparatus in that sense. Biden’s national security advisers they replicate that these war movements must be informed to the United States to protect its own facilities in the region and collaborate with Jerusalem through its intelligence and air defense apparatus.
“Sorry, what are you telling me?” Lloyd Austin, head of the Pentagon, responded to Yoav Gallant, Minister of Defense of Israel, when he announced that a squadron of planes had taken off towards Lebanon to assassinate Hassan Nasrallahhead of Hezbollah.
Like Biden and Netanyahu they are faced Regarding the war strategy in the Middle East, the Israeli government tabica to the White House sensitive information about its military movements in the region.
The Democratic administration is blind to Israel’s offensive against Irany does not want to repeat the experience he suffered when the Israeli Air Force dropped 50 1,000 kilo bombs to finish off Nasrallah.
Netanyahu did not advance Biden the objectives he considers attacking in Iran, although know the red lines established by the president of the United States: the White House rejection the destruction of facilities linked to the nuclear project and oil production.
Biden fears a domino effect in the Middle East and the abrupt increase in gasoline, a few weeks of the presidential elections. The United States is also silently working so that Israel’s attack on Iran has the implicit support of key nations in the Arab world –Jordan, Qatar y Saudi Arabia-, and that will not happen if he puts the status quo local and the global economy.
Netanyahu He summoned his Security Cabinet to define the mode and schedule of the offensive on Iran. The prime minister does not rule out any option, but as the hours go by, would be leaning for executing a combination of air strikes against military targets and targeted killings in covert operations.
If Israel moves In these war parameters, the United States would agree. But I know It’s about a decision that Netanyahu will assume, regardless of the political pressure that the Oval Office may exert. It’s been many weeks that the Israeli premier ignores the geopolitical and military recommendations that come from Washington.
Netanyahu plays alone and wait for the result of the elections in the United States, which confront the vice president Kamala Harris -yesterday he participated in the telephone conversation- and the Republican candidate Donald Trump, to recover deep dialogue with the Oval Office.
The elections are the November 5very far away in time for him military schedule that Netanyahu intends to deploy in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran.