Senior White House figures privately told Israel that the U.S. would support its decision to ramp up military pressure against Hezbollah — even as the Biden administration publicly urged the Israeli government in recent weeks to curtail its strikes, according to American and Israeli officials.
Presidential adviser Amos Hochstein and Brett McGurk, the White House coordinator for the Middle East, told top Israeli officials in recent weeks that the U.S. agreed with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s broad strategy to shift Israel’s military focus to the north against Hezbollah in order to convince the group to engage in diplomatic talks to end the conflict, the officials told POLITICO.
This… Feels worse.
Much worse.
Iraq and Afghanistan were not, at the time, nuclear powers.
Iraq had no real allies in the region.
Afghanistan was also relatively isolated.
That’s not the case with Lebanon. As proxy for Iran. A friend of Russia. A friend of north Korea. A friend of China.
Iran won’t just shoot some rockets.