A Biden-Harris official has leaked to the Washington Post that Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu told Joe Biden in their phone call that he wasn’t planning on striking Iran’s oil and nuclear facilities but rather their military.
They claim this was Netanyahu’s initial position, suggesting by inference that it was not a concession that Biden got from him in order to get his help with a response from Iran.
Here’s more from the WAPO:
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the Biden administration he is willing to strike military rather than oil or nuclear facilities in Iran, according to two officials familiar with the matter, suggesting a more limited counterstrike aimed at preventing a full-scale war.
When Biden and Netanyahu spoke Wednesday — their first call in more than seven weeks after months of rising tensions between the two men — the prime minister said he was planning to target military infrastructure in Iran, according to a U.S. official and an official familiar with the matter. Like others in this story, they spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive deliberations.
The Israeli prime minister’s office did not reply to a request for comment. The White House had no immediate comment.
The retaliatory action would be calibrated to avoid the perception of “political interference in the U.S. elections,” the official familiar with the matter said, signaling Netanyahu’s understanding that the scope of the Israeli strike has the potential to reshape the presidential race.
An Israeli strike on Iranian oil facilities could send energy prices soaring, analysts say, while an attack on the country’s nuclear research program could erase any remaining red lines governing Israel’s conflict with Tehran, triggering further escalation and risking a more direct U.S. military role. Netanyahu’s stated plan to go after military sites instead, as Israel did after Iran’s attack in April, was met with relief in Washington.
Netanyahu was in a “more moderated place” in that discussion than he had previously been, said the U.S. official, describing the call between the two leaders. The apparent softening of the prime minister’s stance factored into Biden’s decision to send a powerful missile defense system to Israel, both officials said.
After that call, the president was more inclined to do it, the U.S. official said.
It is true that Netanyahu likely doesn’t want an extra war front to deal with right now considering what they have on their plate already.
So it is possible that Netanyahu wasn’t planning to target the oil and nuclear facilities for that reason alone.
However given Biden’s playing of both sides and how he’s been protecting Iran all along after making available to them billions of dollars to them for their terrorist needs, I don’t know that I believe that. It’s entirely possible this was a concession Biden got from Netanyahu in order to get his help and that the official relayed it to WAPO as though it were Netanyahu’s position all along.
The bottom line is I don’t trust Joe and Kamala at all with Israel.
Tear out the Theocracy first!