On video: the US drops humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip/Reuters
US President Joe Biden's "State of the Nation" speech signaled a significant change in the US president's approach to the war in Gaza and the White House's loss of patience with the Israeli government. Even if the president spoke with restraint and politeness, his words should turn on a bright red light in Jerusalem.
The messages that Benny Gantz heard in the closed rooms of the White House just a few days ago, Biden said in public tonight. Exactly five months after the terrorist attack of October 7, Biden's speech showed more than anything how much the Israeli government managed to waste the political credit it had with Bat The largest alliance and with the most Zionist president in the history of the USA.
At the end of October, when the number of dead in Gaza was less than 10,000 people, President Biden questioned the reliability of the data published by the Hamas Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip.
In his speech tonight, he already spoke of 30,000 Palestinian deaths - a number similar to that published by the authorities in Gaza.
changed attitude.
Biden/Reuters
The humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip occupied a central part of the American President's speech, and especially his initiative to establish a temporary port in Gaza.
Biden's advisers briefed reporters yesterday that the president ordered his team to move forward with the move as quickly as possible "and not wait for Israel."
Biden did not mention Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his speech, but addressed the "Israeli leadership" and called on them to take the crisis in the Strip seriously.
"Humanitarian aid cannot be a secondary consideration or a bargaining chip. Protecting the lives of innocent civilians must be a priority," the president said.
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"There can be no secondary consideration or bargaining chip."
Humanitarian aid being parachuted into the Gaza Strip, last week/Reuters
There was also a certain change in the tone of the American president when it came to the deal for the release of the abductees.
Biden spoke only of the American abductees when he pledged that he would not rest until they were returned to their families.
Against the background of the impasse in the negotiations between Israel and Hamas, it is possible that the American president will choose to change direction and work on a separate deal for the release of only the six American hostages.
Biden also signaled in his speech that the dream of peace with Saudi Arabia is moving away as long as the Israeli government continues to oppose the two-state solution. "There is no other path that will guarantee Peace between Israel and all Arab countries - including Saudi Arabia," said the American president.
Many in Jerusalem are captive to the concept that Biden will continue to back the Netanyahu government even if it continues to behave favorably toward the American president and does not consider the requests of the United States, such as regarding the Rafah operation.
According to this concept - the American ambassador to the UN will continue to impose a veto in favor of Israel and the ships will continue to flow American weapons into the port of Haifa. As on October 7, this concept could also collapse and cause Israel enormous damage.
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