Just FYI: 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 🇮🇱 U.S. warns #Israel "limited war" with #Lebanon could draw Iran to intervene
🔶️ U.S. officials told Axios the #Biden administration told Israel it doesn't think "a limited war" in Lebanon or a "small regional war" is a realistic option because it will be difficult to prevent it from widening and spinning out of control.
🔶️ The Biden administration warned Israel that a ground invasion of Lebanon, even if it is only in the areas close to the border, would likely push Iran to intervene, U.S. and Israeli officials said.
🔶️ One scenario the administration raised with Israel is that Lebanon could be flooded with #militants from pro-Iranian militias in #Syria, #Iraq and even #Yemen who would want to join the fighting.
🔶️ A senior #IDF official said that the situation has been escalating since May because #Hezbollah conducted more successful drone attacks against Israeli targets that weren't intercepted.
🔶️ At the same time, Hezbollah started launching "Burkan" rockets with 1,000-pound to 2,000-pound warheads that caused significant damage to IDF bases along the border.
🔶️ No decisions were made in the war Cabinet meeting, but the IDF presented several options for expanding the fighting, including a ground invasion aimed at pushing Hezbollah's elite Radwan force away from the border, the IDF official said.
Israeli media report that Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan informed his US counterpart Linda Thomas-Greenfield that the occupation state opposes the Security Council resolution, advanced by the US, which expresses support for Biden's ceasefire proposal.
Israel objected an updated version of the resolution refers to the exchange deal as one that will bring about a “ceasefire,” as opposed to the original version that referred to a “cessation of hostilities, which Israel reads as less permanent in nature.
Israel also opposed a new clause in the draft that “rejects any attempt at demographic or territorial change in the Gaza Strip, including actions that reduce the territory of Gaza, such as through the permanent establishment officially or unofficially of so-called buffer zones.”
#Inflation soared under President #Biden in 2021 & 2022, as the #economy emerged from the #pandemic recession [that began under Trump]. Its causes were complex, including snarled #SupplyChains, stimulative policies by the #FederalReserve &, to a degree, federal fiscal policies incl’ing #Covid relief bills signed by #Trump &…Biden.
#Biden has worked to limit prices for #PrescriptionDrugs like insulin & inhalers, rein in #bank#overdraft & #creditcard fees & make airline #travel cheaper & more transparent, achievements that he often discusses on the campaign trail.
“We’re taking on #corporate#greed to bring down the #price of gas, food & rent, eliminating junk fees,” #POTUS told a crowd of cheering supporters in Philadelphia last week.