U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan has traveled to Israel to hold some candid discussions with Israel’s government officials. It has become too obvious that the Israeli leaders are giving lip service to US counsel to comply with international wartime rules of insuring whenever possible, the minimal loss of civilians’ lives while allowing for the people to have access to ample humanitarian aid, and where steps are taken to limit demolition of a country’s infrastructure.

The US President Joe Biden has warned the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that international support for Israel is seriously at risk due to almost 19,000 Palestinian deaths and the demolition of over 18% of Gaza’s infrastructure as Israel seeks redress for the October 7th surprise brutal massacre of over 1200 Israeli citizens and the seizing of 240 hostages by Hamas, a terrorist group that governs Palestinians in Gaza.

While both the US and Israel are committed to the goal of the elimination of HAMAS mafia style of sovereignty in Gaza, the US wants Israel to transition from obliterating Gaza with bombs where 1/2 of them are dumb bombs to a more targeted approach with the objective of minimizing civilian casualties with much more humanitarian aid being allowed to reach Gaza.

As per a Washington Post report, Israel has deployed over 22,000 bombs in a 6-week time period after October 7, 2023. It’s estimated that Israel has dropped roughly one U.S.-supplied bomb on Gaza for every 100 residents in just six weeks — an astonishing show of force in such a short period of time.

As per a December 14, 2023 UPI report, “Jake Sullivan to hold ‘serious conversations’ with Israel on Gaza casualties” by Clyde Hughes

“The trip (to Israel) comes amid a rift between Biden and Netanyahu over who will lead Gaza after the war and the deaths of civilians.”

“Biden warned on Wednesday that global support for Israel was starting to wane after more than 18,000 Palestinian civilian deaths.”

“Israel’s security can rest on the United States, but right now it has more than the United States. It has the European Union, it has Europe, it has most of the world,” Biden said. “But they’re starting to lose that support by the indiscriminate bombing that takes place.”

“In what appeared to be a response to Biden’s comment, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen brushed off the criticism.”

“Israel will continue the war against Hamas, with or without international support,” he said.”

It’s my opinion that the US President Joe Biden has yet to face the reality that current Israeli head of state is a smarter, more devious clone of the GOP MAGA US ex-president and he is to be treated, accordingly. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a man who’s obsessed with staying in power at all costs, in part, to avoid the consequences of having to face multiple trials for criminal wrongdoing. In November 2022 he managed a surprise comeback after he had been removed from the premiership in June 2021, by aligning himself with extreme right coalition members. Then he immediately set out to morph the 75-year-old democracy into an autocracy by proposing an extreme overhaul of Israel’s judiciary.

Since at least 1995, the current right wing Israeli government has long opposed a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. They’ve just strung the rest of the world along, biding time.

This is why I’m convinced that both HAMAS and the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu with his right-wing coalition must be made to exit the political stage for there to be any chance for peace.

Around 1995, Benjamin Netanyahu, the 45-year-old became the elected leader of Israel’s conservative Likud party founded around 1973 by a war hero Ariel Sharon called the “bulldozer.” Netanyahu could be seen encouraging incitement that led to the killing of the Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Rabin had been pushing for a negotiated settlement, the Oslo Accords with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). It was on Nov 4th that he was murdered by Yigal Amir, an extremist Jew who was opposed to the Oslo Accords and the handing over control of sections in the West Bank to the Palestinians as part of a landmark peace agreement.

The below reports reveal how since at least 1995, the Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been strongly opposed to a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. He will not change now. Does the following sound familiar?

(Netanyahu was a devotee of Defense Minister and Israeli leader Ariel Sharon who was always against any sort of peace deal, unless on terms entirely 
impossible for Palestinians to accept.)

See: Arafat Eluded Israel’s Assassination Machine/ NYT

A must read is the July 13, 2023 Jerusalem Chronicle report, “The formation of Likud changed Israel and the entire Middle East by Colin Shindler for the history of how the Likud Party was founded around 1973 by Ariel Sharon and how Benjamin Netanyahu took over the reins…

As per an October 27, 2022 Times of Israel report, ” Labor chief Michaeli: Rabin was assassinated with Netanyahu’s cooperation by TOI staff:

“Speaking at a conference organized by the Yisrael Hayom newspaper ahead of Saturday night’s memorial ceremony marking 27 years since the 1995 assassination, Labor party chief Merav Michaeli accused opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu of being complicit in the assassination of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin.”

“Yitzhak Rabin was murdered in a political assassination. He was murdered in a political assassination with the cooperation of Benjamin Netanyahu and [Itamar] Ben Gvir,” Michaeli said.”

“Netanyahu has been repeatedly accused by the left over the years of encouraging incitement that led to Rabin’s killing, or at the very least of contributing to the incendiary political climate that led to the murder. He has rejected such claims as “attempts to distort the historical truth.”

“In the weeks before the assassination, Netanyahu, then head of the opposition, and other senior Likud members attended a right-wing political rally in Jerusalem where protesters branded Rabin a “traitor,” “murderer,” and “Nazi” for signing a peace agreement with the Palestinians that year.”

“He also marched in a Ra’anana protest as demonstrators behind him carried a mock coffin.”

“Netanyahu has insisted that it was also his obligation to express his opposition to the Oslo Accords.”

See: Ben-Gvir’s ministry runs ‘like a crime organization has taken over/ Haaretz

As per the November 21, 2023 Guardian report, “The Netanyahu doctrine: how Israel’s longest-serving leader reshaped the country in his image,” by Joshua Leifer:

A savvy political operator, Netanyahu had staked his political future on opposing the Oslo peace process. That summer (of 1995), he had joined a demonstration that featured a mock funeral procession for Rabin, replete with a coffin and a noose, where protesters chanted “Death to Rabin”. In the streets of Jerusalem, demonstrators brandished signs denouncing Rabin as a traitor. They held aloft pictures of him in the uniform of the Nazi SS, and in PLO chair Yasser Arafat’s keffiyeh. They chanted “in blood and fire we will expel Rabin”, and, again, “Death to Rabin”.

“One month later, a religious nationalist law student named Yigal Amir fired 2 shots into Rabin’s back, killing him and the vision of territorial compromise he represented. Outside the hospital where Rabin’s death was announced, a crowd of the prime minister’s supporters chanted “Bibi is a murderer.”

“In 1996, by a threadbare margin – less than 1% of the vote – Netanyahu staged a surprise upset (against Shimon Perez, the Labor party leader and Rabin’s successor) He became the youngest prime minister in Israel’s history.”

“Netanyahu’s first three-year term was not a success, but many of the hallmarks of his approach were already evident. Pressed by the Clinton administration to advance peace negotiations, Netanyahu strung the Americans along, committing only to the bare minimum required to keep the peace process alive, while doing everything possible to prevent a final status agreement in the long run. In the eyes of his rightwing critics, Netanyahu did not break decisively enough with the two-state solution. As Netanyahu saw it, however, the best way to prevent a Palestinian state was to do so quietly, without the fanfare that formal annexation or direct rejection of the US-led peace process would have entailed.”

This post was updated on 12/16/2023