{"id":277790,"date":"2023-12-12T08:08:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T08:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=277790"},"modified":"2023-12-14T07:00:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T07:00:09","slug":"us-wants-israel-to-finish-gaza-war-by-year-end-the-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=277790","title":{"rendered":"US wants Israel to finish Gaza war by year end \u2013 The Economist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction \u2013 Dec 11, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Washington is taking enormous PR damage through its support for Israel\u2019s campaign in Gaza. Apart from alienating large segments of public opinion globally, it is also setting itself up for attacks by pro-Palestinian extremists across the Middle East.<\/p>\n

So it naturally follows that the U.S. would be urging Israel to finish its operations in Gaza as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n

However, there is one big problem with that. Israel has encountered stubborn resistance from Hamas. As a result, the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) have been forced to revise their plans.<\/p>\n

They are not going to be able to eliminate Hamas entirely in a campaign lasting a few weeks, or maybe at a stretch a couple of months, as originally envisaged.<\/p>\n

Instead, one insider who was familiar with the IDF\u2019s campaign plans told London\u2019s Financial Times<\/a>: \u201cThis will be a very long war\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re currently not near halfway to achieving our objectives,\u201d they continued.<\/p>\n

To make matters worse, Israel\u2019s operations in Gaza have only revitalized its opponents and planted the seeds for a long-term insurgency as in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Senior IDF commanders know this. That\u2019s why they will be reluctant to end their operations in Gaza in less than a month. They will want to keep their forces on the ground until all their objectives are achieved and that could take months, if not years.<\/p>\n

Trouble is that runs the risk of alienating their prime sponsor and supporter.<\/p>\n

Israel really is caught in the horns of a terrible dilemma here. If it bows to U.S. wishes it risks revitalising Hamas and providing it with tens of thousands of willing young recruits ready to fight and die.<\/p>\n

Alternatively, if Israel continues its campaign in Gaza it risks seeing all the military and diplomatic support it had previously taken for granted evaporate. Ed.<\/p>\n

US wants Israel to finish Gaza war by year end \u2013 The Economist<\/strong><\/h1>\n

RT \u2013 Dec 11, 2023<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Israel must wrap up its war against Hamas by the end of this year or risk losing Washington\u2019s support for its offensive in Gaza, The Economist has reported, citing sources with knowledge of diplomatic discussions between the two allies.<\/p>\n

International condemnation of Israel\u2019s military operation in the densely populated enclave has steadily grown over the past nine weeks.<\/p>\n

Several world leaders have echoed concerns from aid groups about a worsening humanitarian crisis in the besieged area, as Israel\u2019s bombardment following Hamas\u2019 October 7 cross-border attack intensified. Israel has claimed that 1,147 of its citizens died in the attack, while about 240 people were kidnapped.<\/p>\n

But signs are appearing that Washington\u2019s patience for the offensive is wearing thin, as Palestinian health officials say the death toll in Gaza nears 18,000, most of whom were civilians, according to a report by The Economist on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Citing anonymous sources, the outlet reported that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued a behind-closed-doors warning during a recent trip to Israel: Finish up by the end of the year, or US support may erode.<\/p>\n

Publicly, neither government has referenced any sort of deadline for a conclusion to the military offensive. Speaking to CNN on Sunday, Blinken said that the duration of the war was a \u201cdecision for Israel to make.\u201d<\/em> However, the head US diplomat also admitted discussions had been held with Israeli officials as to how the country was \u201cprosecuting this campaign with Hamas.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Blinken claimed that Israel had the \u201cintent\u201d<\/em> to minimize civilian suffering but admitted that \u201cthe results\u201d<\/em> did not always reflect that.<\/p>\n

The Economist added that the Biden administration called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s government to reduce the suffering of Palestinians as much as possible, particularly in southern Gaza. Large numbers of displaced civilians have congregated to the south, where a breakdown in sanitation systems has prompted concerns of an outbreak of disease.<\/p>\n

Last week, the US was the only member of the UN Security Council to veto an emergency resolution calling for an emergency ceasefire in Gaza \u2013 a move seen as underscoring Washington\u2019s backing of Israel in the face of international condemnation. The UK abstained from the vote.<\/p>\n

The US State Department also recently rubber-stamped the supply of 14,000 120mm tank shells to Israel, one of the primary munitions being used by IDF forces in Gaza.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Rothschilds reputedly own the Economist. So when it claims that the U.S. is demanding that Israel end its operation in Gaza by the New Year it shouldn\u2019t be dismissed. However, as we explain, there is one major problem with this. Particularly for Israel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":277793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[118,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-7-10-gaza-war","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277790"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277828,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277790\/revisions\/277828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/277793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}