JERUSALEM, Israel – As Hezbollah terrorists seriously escalated projectile attacks on northern Israel over the last week, the Biden administration is urging the Jewish nation not to strike back so hard that it leads to all-out war. The admonition comes as Israel claims it has destroyed half of the Hamas fighting forces in Rafah.
Amos Hochstein, a senior advisor to President Joe Biden, met Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in an attempt to persuade Israel to trust diplomacy and not engage in all-out war with Hezbollah.
It is impossible, however, according to Israelis who live there, to put up with near-daily shellings that have forced some 100,000 citizens from their homes in northern Israel for the better part of a year.
Res. Major Shadi Khaloul, an Aramaen Christian Israeli who serves in the Israel Defense Forces Reserves, questions whether Hochstein understands what he’s dealing with in the Middle East. He contends the struggle is over ideology, not land.
So how can diplomacy work when you are talking about a regime that is exporting (an) ideology that is calling for submission (to) their values – for their Islamic Sharia?” he asked. Khaloul added that Hezbollah knows Israel is a Jewish
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