Israel insists that no one is going to change its plans for the war in Gaza but, at the same time, it has not wanted the differences that have arisen with the United States in recent hours over the management of the war to escalate. In the midst of the controversy, the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, have assured that they are enough as a State to face the current contest. The president, Isaac Herzog, for his part, has been full of praise for Israel’s “greatest ally.”
“If we have to fight alone, we will fight alone,” Netanyahu forcefully defends in words that he himself recovered from his speech on Monday at the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem. Published this Wednesday on his profile on the social network armed conflict. “No decision by any international force will prevent Israel from defending itself,” Netanyahu added.
This Wednesday, the Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, sent a message to his “enemies” and “friends.” In this way, Israel has shown itself determined to move forward with or without foreign help on the different fronts it maintains from north to south. “From here I say to Israel’s enemies and its best friends: the State of Israel cannot be subdued, nor its army, nor the Ministry of Defense, nor the senior defense commanders. We will stand firm, we will achieve our objectives, we will strike Hamas, we will destroy Hezbollah and we will bring security,” Gallant said in his speech during a ceremony on the eve of his country celebrating Memorial Day.
“Whatever the cost, we will ensure the existence of the State of Israel and remember well the directive we signed just a week ago during the Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony, the words ‘Never again.’ For me, it is not just a directive, it is a work plan. “This is how those responsible for Defense will work and this is how the Israeli army will work,” he added in statements collected by The Times of Israel.
“Civilians have died in Gaza as a result of these bombs and other ways of attacking population centers,” Biden told CNN on Tuesday when the death toll in Gaza is close to 35,000 during a war in which his country is the main supplier. of money and weapons from Israel. He was referring to a shipment of weapons to Israel that his country keeps frozen.
The Israeli Minister of National Security, the ultranationalist Itamar Ben Gvir, has not missed the opportunity to criticize Biden and, at the same time, Netanyahu. In a brief and forceful message on X he stated that Biden loves Hamas. The first to respond directly was the president of Israel, Herzog. During the commemoration of the victory over Nazism he called to “avoid baseless, irresponsible and insulting statements and tweets that harm national security and the interests of the State of Israel.”
Diplomacy of the head of state
In addition to answering Ben Gvir, the head of state opted for the path of diplomacy in relations with the United States. “In the context of this morning’s news, it is important for me to say that even when there are disagreements and moments of disappointment between friends and allies, there is a way to clarify disputes and it is the responsibility of all of us,” he said. “This is a remarkable opportunity to thank the allies of the State of Israel today as well, and especially our greatest ally, the United States of America. “I want to thank President Biden, who is a great friend of the State of Israel, and who demonstrated it from the first day of the war.”
The opposition Yair Lapid has asked the prime minister to dispense with the head of National Security in the Government. “If Netanyahu does not fire Ben Gvir today, he will be endangering every soldier in the army and every citizen of the State of Israel,” he wrote in his X profile.
Biden, immersed as a Democratic candidate in a complicated election year, also faces the war in Gaza as an internal matter. The protest camps in defense of the Palestinians are multiplying and the Republican candidate, Donald Trump, does not waste the opportunity to put them on the spot. In the last few hours, in the midst of the refusal to send the weapons, the Republican has accused the Democratic president of siding with Hamas, in the same way that Ben Gvir has done.