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Biden In 45-Minute Phone Call With Israeli Prime Minister, Netanyahu Stops Planned War Against Hezbollah
2023-12-24
[SAHARAREPORTERS] The United States President, Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The very model of probity....
, in a 45-minute call with the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, convinced him to abort strikes on Hezbollah in Leb
...an Iranian satrapy currently ruled by Hassan Nasrallah situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else? It is the home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...
days after the October 7 terror attack on Israel by Hamas
...one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede,...
from Paleostine.

Daily Mail reports that sources familiar with the phone call said that President Biden urged Netanyahu to abort Israel's mission to strike against Hezbollah forces in Lebanon to prevent an all-out Middle East war.

It was reported that the pre-emptive strike was set to take place in the days after Hamas launched a terror attack at the Supernova music festival in Israel.

Israeli warplanes were in the air and ready to go when Biden spoke to Netanyahu on October 11.

Biden reportedly pleaded with Netanyahu to think about the consequences of the drastic action — and his convincing worked as Israel did not go ahead with the planned attack.

The phone call, which hadn't been reported until now, is said to have set a pattern for U.S. efforts to de-escalate conflict in the Middle East.

The Biden administration has been relentlessly trying to prevent expansion of the ongoing Israeli-Hamas war along Israel's Northern border with Lebanon.

Israeli forces engage in war fire with fighters from the Iran-backed Shiite turban group, Hezbollah and Paleostinian bully boyz along the border on a daily basis.

The White House's efforts to de-escalate the conflict in October included sending two aircraft carrier strike groups to the eastern Mediterranean, followed by a nuclear submarine.

Biden and his administration received a heads up about Israel's plan to launch a pre-emptive strike on the morning of October 11 - when Israeli forces urgently notified the White House that they thought Hezbollah was going to attack.

Daily Mail further reports that U.S. officials said that Israel begged for American support.

The Wall Street Journal was said to have reported that "Biden’s top intelligence, military and national security advisers—including CIA Director William Burns and Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines, Secretary of State Antony Blinken
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs CQ Brown - convened later that morning for a principal’s committee meeting to discuss Israel’s proposed plans and determined that U.S. intelligence didn’t correspond with Israel’s."

Posted by:Fred

#20  Ref #18: Presidential debate? No problem.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-12-24 17:04  

#19  The Times of Israel reports that Bibi denies succumbing to outside pressure.
Posted by: trailing wife   2023-12-24 16:47  

#18  The notion of Biden sustaining an argument with Netanyahu for 45 minutes is risible.
Posted by: Ululating Platypus   2023-12-24 16:29  

#17  ...Nobody told Bibi, apparently - from Fox:

Netanyahu says Israel is ‘deepening’ war in Gaza Strip, will not stop until victory is achieved
https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/december-24-israel-hamas-war

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski   2023-12-24 16:25  

#16  there are many Hezbollah Iraqi Syrian fighters that would leave their units in the north to fight in the south if they could get in

And you know that how - because they say so? That's Arab mentality: a word as good as a deed.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-12-24 14:11  

#15  #11#10 What foreign fighters. Hamas expected USA to stop Israel - as happened a dozen times before.
Posted by Grom the Reflective


So far your defense forces have done a good job sealing off Gaza so the foreign fighters can not get in...and as a result Hamas is on the verge of extermination.

Re: foreign fighters - there are many Hezbollah Iraqi Syrian fighters that would leave their units in the north to fight in the south if they could get in.

Posted by: Tennessee   2023-12-24 14:05  

#14  Who was on the call, because the Puppet isn't actually the decision maker, he just reads stuff, bloviates and then listens to Jill and Hunter.

I wonder if anyone in Israel is ballsy enough to identify who they actually think is in charge of US foreign policy?
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2023-12-24 11:58  

#13  Never start a two-front war. Finish the ethnic cleansing operation in Gaza first.
Posted by: Phugum Uluth9531   2023-12-24 11:25  

#12  Pretty much all "wars" have become a no-win for outsiders.

Progress.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-12-24 10:35  

#11  #10 What foreign fighters. Hamas expected USA to stop Israel - as happened a dozen times before.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-12-24 10:33  

#10  #6 Rep Moulton: Because every time you kill innocent civilians — and we know that Israel has done a lot of that — you help recruit terrorists to the cause.

This is Hamas' intent - create a "zone of chaos" to enable recruiting...foreign fighters are supposed to rally to the green flag after the October 7th terror attack and Israel's reaction.

However, Hamas did not anticipate Israel making it so chaotic, and fatal, that the foreign fighters are afraid to or unable to rally...

Posted by: Tennessee   2023-12-24 09:41  

#9  Swearing allegiance to the dem o crap party will soon be floated as a requirement to stay out of jail.

Let's see how that goes...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-12-24 07:52  

#8  As for "innocent civilians," the entire project of the USGOV has been to craft a penal code where everyone can break the law without even realizing they have. So, dickbag Moulton can shut his hole.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-12-24 07:47  

#7  I'm supposed to care. I don't care.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2023-12-24 07:44  

#6  Rep Moulton: Because every time you kill innocent civilians — and we know that Israel has done a lot of that — you help recruit terrorists to the cause.

Yep. If USA didn't nuke Hiroshima & Nagasaki, WWII would've ended in 1945.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-12-24 07:42  

#5  WH and State work for the other side. The only reason WH has given what ever support is fear of the political consequences of not. That is not limited to one community. Best bet is to feed Deep State disinformation which they'll pass on to their contacts in the ME.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-12-24 07:40  

#4  Dem Rep. Moulton: Israel Stopped Listening to Biden After Delaying Invasion Based on His Advice

Was it Biden?

Where's The Line? Considerations For Using AI Voice Cloning
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-12-24 07:33  

#3  Biden spoke with Israel's Netanyahu to discuss Israel, Gaza, White House says

Not Lebanon
IDF completes extensive wave of attacks on Hezbollah in Lebanon
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-12-24 07:18  

#2  I hope bibi does like the rest of the world and ignores the idiot.
Posted by: Chris   2023-12-24 04:56  

#1  IDF says fighter jets hit a Hezbollah military headquarters in Lebanon

Poor Bibi, having to listen for 45 min to Joe's stories about past that never was.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-12-24 01:11  

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