This should have been too much humiliation. The one inflicted by the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on his Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, by abruptly ending his planned trip to Washington, on Wednesday, October 9. The purpose of this visit was to meet with his counterpart, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, as Israeli attacks against Iran are prepared. Its cancellation could have caused an open crisis between the two Israeli leaders waging war in Gaza, and now in Lebanon, with disagreements exposed for months. But Yoav Galán obeyed. Once again, he reluctantly served the objectives of the Prime Minister, who regained control of the channel between Israel and the United States, greatly disturbed by his own tensions with Joe Biden. The latter no longer hides his dislike of the Israeli leader.
On Wednesday, during a telephone conversation between the two – which was joined by the vice president and Democratic presidential candidate, Kamala Harris –, there was an attempt to review the conduct of the wars waged by the Israeli army in Gaza and Lebanon, but also to discuss the way Israel intends to attack Iran. Benyamin Netanyahu intended to involve the United States without giving Washington the freedom to influence the exact caliber of these attacks, the details of which were to be put to a vote by the Israeli security cabinet on Thursday, October 10. The Prime Minister and the American President had not spoken for almost two months, although the acceleration of events in the region would have justified extensive exchanges.
The option of forcefully attacking Iranian targets is being considered by Israeli power since the salvo of 180 ballistic missiles fired by Tehran against Israeli territory, on 1Ahem October. Yoav Gallant, who was not involved in the conversation with the Americans, told Israeli military officials on Wednesday afternoon that the attacks were going to be “deadly, precise and surprising.” And to add: “They are not going to understand what happened to them and how it happened to them. » The bombastic threat remains vague, but appears to direct the nature of the action, at least in part, toward special operations like the one that led to the elimination of Hamas leader Ismaïl Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31. At the risk of triggering a high-level Iranian response.
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