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WSJ: Biden pressured Netanyahu to abandon plans for preemptive strike on Hezbollah

www.ynetnews.com

Israel planned to launch a preemptive strike against Hezbollah on October 11 which was narrowly averted due to intervention from U.S. President Joe Biden, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

The assault plan came on the heels of Hamas’ invasion of southern Israel and, according to the report, was based on intelligence Israel had that Hezbollah attackers were preparing to cross the border as part of a multi-pronged attack. The U.S. reportedly deemed the information unreliable.

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Frankly maybe the US should stop protecting Israel and let them do whatever they want. Clearly they don’t appreciate Biden trying to save them from themselves, and opening a second front of the war is what they want even though it will badly harm Israel. Attacking more Arab countries will drag the rest of the region into the fight and Israel will have nobody to blame but themselves.
- Israel has nukes and is run by nutjobs. They won't use nukes in Gaza, it's too close to Israeli cities. But there's no telling what they'll do the further away a conflict gets.
  
  Who the fuck thought it was a good idea to let those genocidal zealots have nukes? For fuck's sake...
- Israel has been attacked by the rest of the region before.
  
  Israel has also committed aggression against most of its neighbors and tried to claim their lands as well.
"preemptive strike" is funny wording for "attack" .
I guess Hamas killing IDF reservists on October 7 was just a preemptive strike too. Lower the civilian death count boys.
Biden reminding Bibi to keep his eyes on the prize. You can't properly focus on genociding Gaza if you have to fight Hezbollah as well.
- Im all for hating Biden, but this is ultimately a good thing?
  Or do people want the war to expand to the whole region so more civilians get affected?
  
  There are "people" here who go out of their way to frame everything good Biden does as something bad.
  They can't even just pick something bad. They have to attack the good thing specifically.
  
  Israel is arrogant enough to think they can fight multiple wars at the same time. Biden and others have made the best effort to warn them against it, but if Netanyahu wants to risk the entire country just to grab more land then what can we do to stop him?
  
  Sure, it's good. But it shows that the Americans have the influence to tell Israel which targets to attack, and they're not using it to tell them to avoid attacking hospitals, schools, their own hostages, etc.
  As with everything, it's wholly inadequate.

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