The US government quietly backed Israel’s military attack on Lebanon, The New Republic wrote, with US officials telling Israel that the US would support their decision to bomb Hezbollah targets, even with US President Joe Biden urging a ceasefire in the region as soon as Monday.
The US government quietly backed Israel’s military attack on Lebanon, The New Republic wrote, with US officials telling Israel that the US would support their decision to bomb Hezbollah targets, even with US President Joe Biden urging a ceasefire in the region as soon as Monday.The report names presidential adviser Amos Hochstein and White House coordinator for the Middle East Brett McGurk, who told Israeli officials that the US supported their strategy to launch military attacks on Lebanon. At the same time some officials in the State Department and the Department of Defense cautioned that backing Israel could pull the US further into war in the region.“So, it should have been clear to anybody who was looking at the situation objectively that the Biden administration does support what Israel is doing in Gaza, in the West Bank, in Lebanon, and with respect to Iran,” he added.
