Biden tells Netanyahu Rafah operation would be ‘mistake’

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President Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Monday that sending Israeli troops into the southern Gaza city of Rafah would be a “mistake” — just three days after Biden praised Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s incendiary speech calling for the Jewish state to hold a “new election” and oust Netanyahu following the war against Hamas.

“A major ground operation would be a mistake,” national security adviser Jake Sullivan told reporters that Biden, 81, stressed to Netanyahu, citing concerns about civilian safety in the city of more than 150,000 situated near the Egyptian border.

Biden didn’t make “threats,” Sullivan added during a White House press briefing, but had a “very businesslike” tone with the Israeli PM while both condemning the terror group Hamas and urging Israel to have a “strategy that works.”

“A military plan cannot succeed without an integrated humanitarian plan and political plan. And the president has repeatedly made the point that continuing military operations need to be continued to a clear strategic end game,” Sullivan added.

Netanyahu gave no indication of any friction between the two leaders, who spoke Monday for the first time since Feb. 15, in a brief Hebrew-language video released by his office.

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  3. Instead of doing what the US thinks is right, like their Afghanistan and all else. Israel is now doing their own. Wow. How bad and rude and wrong of them. To think that the experts of Israel and local war fare and the politic around it should know something on their own. Unacceptable especially considering the failures of the US interventions everywhere in the world for the last 75 years. But better knowing is better knowing even when this government of a failing US is collapsing and we must play lip service to the government like we pay lip service to an old demented man, and do what we know best and know what's best.

  11. White House Spokesman to learn the definition of Terrorist. He does not need to go to KG class to any School m, here is his lesson, “Whatever Israeli Netanyahu Govt is doing with unconstitutional / unconstitutional donation from US Biden is called Terrorism”.

  17. All Gazans be it a child or old are all radicalized that's why they don't vacate or move out of danger places even after they are warned. They believe in martyrdom that once you are killed you ascend to heaven with medals.

  19. Biden has always been wrong in the past as well as now. I hope Netanyahu does the opposite of whatever Biden says because that would be the correct formula.

  20. If usa knows laws how can you send weapons and military help. you know civilians are beng killed. by saying hamas hamas how many people innocent are killed. this nyatanyahu is satan and you are helping satan.

  21. Is Biden & his Democrats like Chuck Schumer caving to Iran's regime?. is US officials meetings with Iran's officials last week in Oman behind this i.e. USA helps Hamas and Iran will help Biden be re-elected in November's presidential election?. Iran did help Obama in the past. Iranian regime have great fear from the Republicans.

  27. US is intoxicated vetoing repeatedly cease fire for 3 times and the Biden to prepare himself for election saying a few words against natanyaho.😂….If US was to be serious it wouldnot have vetoed cease fire in UN SC.Israel will invade Rafah and killed as much as it wants US will Just talk.

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