Please tell me you didn’t spend any time or money on that assessment
A Jose Canseco bat?
So what is the US doing still sending weapons to Israel?
Business as usual
That’s surprising, I would have expected his plans were pretty clear. You don’t genocide a population and then just leave the place empty afterwards.
The post-war plan for Gaza has been set since the 1930s.
I did not realize that Biden moving his finger to the left and then back to the right again counts as “pressure”
Still waiting for them to finally reject the latest ceasefire
At least he’s doing his part in looking more and more evil. Now he just needs to start wearing all black and it’ll be complete.
CIA’s deposed better for bananas
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A CIA assessment circulated among US officials this week concluded that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu likely judges he can get away without defining a post-war plan — even as the Biden administration has launched a full-court press to pressure him to bring an end to the conflict in Gaza.
Netanyahu “probably believes he can maintain support from his security chiefs and prevent defections” from the right wing of his coalition by discussing the future of Gaza in “vague terms,” the June 3 report, reviewed by CNN, reads.
The assessment highlights how the Israeli leader is defying pressure from members of his own government and the Biden administration to define an “end state” for Gaza and warns what Netanyahu has said publicly is likely true: that he will only engage seriously on post-war issues after meeting “what he sees as key security benchmarks, which may take months.”
The relationship between Biden and Netanyahu — a world leader whom he once claimed to “love” — has been increasingly strained as the civilian death toll in Gaza has mounted as a result of Israel’s bombing campaign.
Although initially the administration was deeply reluctant to discuss Israeli politics in public, officials have in recent weeks and months inched closer to frank assessments of Netanyahu’s motivations.
Overall, the assessment illustrates how Israel’s coalition government remains deeply divided over several critical post-war issues – supporting the CIA’s broader conclusion that a lack of unity among Netanyahu’s political rivals could enable his continued defiance of any pressure to define a plan for Gaza once the conflict ends.
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Well of course he wants to keep it in “vague terms” - he’s too canny of a politician to come right out and say that the plan is and always has been the conquest, occupation and eventual annexation of the whole of Gaza.
