President Joe Biden called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu late on Saturday night into Sunday following Iran’s launch of 300 missiles and drones toward Israel. Biden informed Netanyahu that the United States would not support Israel in a counteroffensive against Iran.
The first to report on the details of the chat was Barak Ravid of the Israeli news website Walla. Ravid reported (using Google Translate to translate):
“A senior White House official stated this morning (Sunday) that US President Joe Biden informed Prime Minister Netanyahu during their phone conversation tonight that the US will not participate in or support an Israeli assault on Iran.”
“Today you achieved a triumph. According to a senior White House official, Biden encouraged Netanyahu to “be content with this victory.” According to a White House official, when Biden informed Netanyahu that the US would not support an Israeli assault on Iran and that it opposes such a move, Netanyahu said that he understood.”
As recently as last August, the United States and Israel carried out combined air drills that mimicked an attack on Iran’s nuclear installations.
Additionally, Biden stated last week that American support for Israel’s security was “ironclad.”
However, the Biden administration has regularly recanted these claims. Although Biden stated in October that he was “unwavering” in his support for Israel’s fight against Hamas, he has been attempting to talk Israel off of crossing into Rafah in order to kill the final Hamas battalions.
In addition, the Biden administration has worked to extend the nuclear agreement with Iran and lift sanctions, which have given Iran billions of dollars in benefits.
The White House appears to believe that Israel will be content with its effective defense against the Iranian response to the Israeli airstrike on April 1st, which claimed the lives of seven Iranian officials in Syria, including two generals who had instructed Iranian terrorist proxies to attack Israel.
Last week, Israel declared that it would launch an attack on Iran in retaliation for any attack by Iran from Iranian territory.
Furthermore, Israel might want to use the strike to target the Iranian nuclear program or the Iranian-backed terrorist organization Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, which has been firing rockets at Israeli communities for months.
However, Biden is committed to preventing any potential escalation, particularly in an election year.
Netanyahu has stated on numerous occasions that he is ready to wage war against Israel’s adversaries, including Iran, without the support of the United States.
Biden also gave the impression that he was trying to talk Israel out of retaliating by claiming in a public statement that Iran had attacked military sites.
In the southern town of Arad, shrapnel severely injured a civilian, a seven-year-old Israeli Arab Bedouin Muslim girl. There is no indication that the targeting did not also include civilians.
The United States, along with the United Kingdom and the Jordanian air force, worked with Israel to destroy Iranian drones.
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