{"id":4664,"date":"2024-03-19T21:24:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T01:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/?p=4664"},"modified":"2024-03-19T21:24:50","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T01:24:50","slug":"the-washington-post-biden-still-staunch-supporter-of-israel-despite-indiscriminate-gaza-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/the-washington-post-biden-still-staunch-supporter-of-israel-despite-indiscriminate-gaza-bombing-19032024\/","title":{"rendered":"The Washington Post: Biden still staunch supporter of Israel despite indiscriminate Gaza bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An article published by a prominent U.S. newspaper says the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has provided Israel \u201cunfettered support,\u201d even though American officials confirmed that the regime is indiscriminately bombing Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to an article published by The Washington Post on Monday, top U.S. officials \u201cprivately told a small group assembled at the White House what they would not say in public: \u2018Israel was regularly bombing buildings without solid intelligence that they were legitimate military targets\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group, that included top foreign policy officials from the Biden administration and previous ones, made the remarks on October 27, three weeks into Israel\u2019s aggression on Gaza. &nbsp;They also discussed \u201cthe apparent lack of an Israeli plan for defeating Hamas despite repeated US prodding,\u201d the Washington Post cited three people familiar with the private exchange who spoke on the condition of anonymity, as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe never had a clear sense that the Israelis had a definable and achievable military objective,\u201d said one of those familiar with the private exchange. \u201cFrom the very beginning, there\u2019s been a sense of us not knowing how the Israelis were going to do what they said they were going to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPublicly, however, the Biden administration was providing Israel unfettered support\u201d in the wake of the October 7 Operation Al-Aqsa Storm, according to the article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the same day as the private exchange, the article said, White House spokesman John Kirby also stressed that Washington was imposing no \u201cred lines\u201d on Israel\u2019s offensive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article, citing 20 administration officials and outside advisers, noted that the war threatens Biden\u2019s reelection. Biden\u2019s allies privately acknowledge that it \u201chas done him significant damage domestically and globally and could easily become his biggest foreign policy cataclysm.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel waged its genocidal war on Gaza on October 7 after the Palestinian Hamas resistance group carried out Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the usurping entity in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the start of the offensive, the Tel Aviv regime has killed 31,819 Palestinians and injured 73,792 others. &nbsp;The Tel Aviv regime has also imposed a \u201ccomplete siege\u201d on the territory, cutting off fuel, electricity, food and water to the more than two million Palestinians living there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United Nations says children in Gaza have begun dying of hunger amid the risk of a severe famine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article published by a prominent U.S. newspaper says the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden has provided Israel &ldquo;unfettered support,&rdquo; even though American officials confirmed that the regime is&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[42],"class_list":["post-4664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"authors":[{"term_id":42,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"radio-habana-cuba","display_name":"Radio Habana Cuba","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4666,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4664\/revisions\/4666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4664"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radiorebelde.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}