He US President Joe Bidentravels this Wednesday to Israel and Jordan in a political high voltage mission. On the one hand, the president, who will meet with the Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahuwill reinforce the message of unwavering support for Israel in its response to the attack launched on October 7 by Hamasin which They killed more than 1,400 people and they took about 250 hostages. At the same time, Biden, who will hold meetings with King Abdullah in Amman; the Egyptian president, Abdelfatah al Sisi; and the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, makes efforts to itry to avoid the deterioration of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and try to iprevent the crisis from escalating into a regional conflict.
On Wednesday, I’ll travel to Israel to stand in solidarity in the face of Hamas’s brutal terrorist attack.
I’ll then travel to Jordan to address dire humanitarian needs, meet with leaders, and make clear that Hamas does not stand for Palestinians’ right to self-determination.
—President Biden (@POTUS) October 17, 2023
The trip to Israel has been announced from Tel Aviv by the Secretary of State, Anthony Blinken, after a marathon meeting with Netanyahu, who had extended the invitation to Biden on Saturday. And the head of American diplomacy waited for that announcement until he had commitments of the Israeli prime minister on a humanitarian aid packagealthough in Blinken’s public words it has been clear that there is a lot of work left still pending. According to her, they have agreed to “try to find ways to get humanitarian aid to Gaza and consider ideas for establishing “safe zones.” in the Strip, which in theory would be off limits to Israeli attacks.
Scratching time before the raid
Biden’s trip comes after two visits to Israel by Blinken and another of his Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and at the moment the diplomatic offensive seems Scratch time before Israel launches military incursion into Gaza that Netanyahu has promised to eradicate Hamas. An Israeli military spokesman, however, recalled that the moment of that raid depends “on many variables” And when asked if Biden’s trip would have an influence, he responded with “we’ll see.”
It is also a priority for Americans to address the possible opening of a corridor at the Rafah border crossing, between Gaza and Egypt, allowing both flow of humanitarian aid as a safe exit passageespecially for the Americans who still remain in Gaza, as John Kirby, national security spokesman for the Biden government, explained in a call with the media.
Biden’s goal is also to try avoid the opening of a new front with Hezbollah in Lebanon and the regional expansion of the conflict.
military support
In the first week since the Hamas attack, Biden has repeatedly shown support for Israel in its military response. He has already sent two aircraft carrier groups to the Mediterraneanto which, according to what was learned this Monday, a rapid response force composed of about 2,000 Marines and Navy membersand whose deployment will be focused on helping the evacuation of Americans and support missions to the Israeli forces, but not combat.
Despite mentioning the importance of international humanitarian law, Biden has also insisted on the right to defense and had not publicly urged Israel to show restraint nor criticized siege measures As the water, energy and food outage with which Israel has punished the Strip, on which it has launched thousands of bombs that they have already left 2,750 dead, a quarter of them childrenand nearly 10,000 injured.
Biden’s speech and that of members of his Administration, however, increasingly include humanitarian considerations, and reminders that the majority of Palestinians do not support Hamas and that the group “does not represent the right to dignity and self-determination of the Palestinian people. And in the Democrat government they are increasingly aware that the vision of the conflict, and the narrative, are changing, as demonstrated by the growing global protests waves fractures that are already beginning to open in the Democratic Partywhich in the first days after the Hamas attack responded with a unified message of support for Israel.
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On Sunday, in an interview on the ’60 minutes’ program, Biden assured that “it would be a big mistake.” a new occupation of Gaza by Israel (although Israel assures that it does not intend the occupation, but has not explained what will happen in Gaza if it achieves its objective of eradicating Hamas or who would govern in the Strip). And the president also said that “there needs to be a Palestinian authority, there has to be a path to a Palestinian state.”