Says who? The White House, that’s who, where leakers want to push Israel into changing its war strategies, aims, and preferably withdraw entirely. No fewer than five times does the Wall Street Journal cite unnamed “U.S. officials” to report that Israel and the Biden administration are about to collide over the war that Hamas started with its grotesque and barbaric slaughter of hundreds of civilians — including almost three dozen Americans.
In the most telling leak, one “U.S. official” warns Israel that they have to wrap up their campaign in “weeks, not months”:
The southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis is a critical target for Israel’s military—strategically and symbolically. The centuries-old market town is the suspected hiding place of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and the militant group’s most significant remaining military stronghold.
But the fight to capture it risks putting Israel on a collision course with the Biden administration, which has called on Israel to minimize civilian casualties and ease humanitarian deprivation in Gaza, and to hew to a more limited war aim of expelling Hamas from power. …
In Israel last week, U.S. Secretary of State…
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