Israeli prime minister says country can ‘stand alone’ and cites the ‘heroism and arms embargo’ of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war

Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel will stand alone and “fight with our fingernails” in defiance of US threats to further restrict arms deliveries if Israeli forces proceeded with an offensive on the southern Gazan city of Rafah.

Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, was speaking on Thursday after Israeli and Hamas delegations left the ceasefire negotiations in Cairo.

It was unclear whether the talks had broken down or simply paused, but the failure to reach an agreement on this week’s round of meetings raised apprehension of an imminent Israeli attack on Rafah.

Netanyahu appeared to shrug off a public warning from the US president, Joe Biden, the previous night that if the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched a major offensive on the city the US would not provide bombs and artillery shells to support the operation.

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  • InformalTrifle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    260·
    6 months ago

    Ridiculous that Biden is changing policy due to students protesting a war just because the aggressor/initiator is losing badly. He’s lost their votes already.

    Hoping they take Rafah soon and eliminate every last Hamas jihadist and hopefully get some hostages back alive

      • InformalTrifle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        114·
        6 months ago

        Never used Truth Social. Isn’t that for the far right?

        You’re completely wrong. Im just against extreme religious terrorism. Strange that you think that makes me far right

        • gmtom@lemmy.worldEnglish
          81·
          6 months ago

          If it walks like a duck quacks like a duck and spends it’s time denying the ongoing genocide in Palestine like a duck, then I’ll call it a duck

          • InformalTrifle@lemmy.worldEnglish
            18·
            6 months ago

            You are deluded if you think supporting Israel in its right to defend itself against Islamic Jihadist terrorists is exclusive to the far right. By your definition Biden must be on Truth social too

            • gmtom@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              6 months ago

              The fact you had to argue a completely different point instead of the one I’m actually making shows that you KNOW your position is morally indefensible.

              We both know that Israel invading palesting and killing thousands of children isn’t “self defence”.

              We both know Israel restricting humanitarian aid from entering palestine, thus causing a man made famine, is not them defending themselves.

              Everyone here knows you are not arguing in good faith. Including yourself, so why are you wasting your time? Are you doing a “le epic troll”? Are you just an edgy contrarian? Or something else? Please, tell me.