“We are going to go in and finish this job, and anybody who doesn’t understand that doesn’t understand that the existential nerve of the Jews was touched.”
A Palestinian man and his family dog walk above the rubble of a destroyed house in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 21, 2024, amid ongoing battles between Israel and the militant group Hamas. A top Israeli official said his country’s military is ultimately going to invade the southern Gaza city of Rafah and defeat Hamas “even if the entire world turns on Israel, including the United States.
A close confidant of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Dermer is headed to Washington early next week to listen to concerns from the Biden administration that such an invasion would cause many more civilian casualties at a time when famine and disease are spreading in Gaza.U.S.
Dermer said he’s going to Washington to listen to U.S. ideas about what to do. There have been a number of disagreements between the U.S. and Israel over strategy during the more than five months of conflict, but they worked through them in the end, he said.Famine is imminent in Northern Gaza, U.N.-backed report warns
Just as Netanyahu faces pressure from his right, Biden faces pressure from his left and each is fighting for political survival.
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