“The United States is working on a truce between Israel and Hamas of at least six weeks.” President Joe Biden said this after his meeting at the White House with King Abdullah of Jordan.
According to rumors from NBC News, Joe Biden's patience would have reached its limit. Israel is killing too many civilians in Gaza and after having defined Benyamin Netanyahu's response to the Hamas massacre of October 7 as "over the top" just a few days ago, the American president now appears furious with the Israeli prime minister, so to refer to him with unflattering epithets and insults. Biden would speak of Netanyahu to his collaborators as "that guy", if not even as "an asshole", as has happened on three recent occasions.
The White House National Security Council denied the reconstructions of the American network, stating that despite some disagreements the two leaders have "a decades-long relationship of respect in public and private". While the State Department reiterated that the United States does not want a general ceasefire in Gaza, but that "we now need a humanitarian truce".
More than four months after the start of the conflict, the tone is also rising in Europe against the Jewish State and its military operation, starting from Great Britain and the EU, where questions are also growing about the sending of weapons to that the army which now also has in its sights the last strip of the Strip left to the displaced people on the run. British Foreign Minister David Cameron condemned the raids and the possible entry of ground forces into Rafah, on the border with Egypt, saying he was "very concerned" for Palestinian civilians "who no longer have anywhere to go". The former British prime minister invited Israel to "stop and think very seriously before any further military action: we want an immediate pause in the fighting that will lead to a sustainable truce without a resumption of hostilities." And just like the US, the UK has imposed sanctions on four Israelis identified as "extremist" settler leaders in the West Bank, accused of having "threatened and perpetrated acts of aggression and violence against Palestinian civilians in the occupied territories".
In Brussels, however, the High Representative for EU foreign policy, Josep Borrell, directly pressed the US administration : «President Biden said that the civilian deaths in Gaza are too many. If there are too many then perhaps you have to give Israel fewer weapons, it's quite logical", he said in a press conference alongside Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner of UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees which Israel considers to support Hamas. “Everyone goes to Tel Aviv and asks: 'Please, there are too many victims, kill fewer civilians.' But Benyamin Netanyahu doesn't listen to anyone. Maybe it's time to stop asking please and do something,” added Borrell who, with bitter sarcasm, he also responded to requests for the evacuation of civilians from Rafah: "And where should they go? To the moon?".
(Unioneonline/D)
