Good article. Basically, saying that Joe is discouraging Bibi from going all in assaulting Gaza.
US military advisers invoke lessons of Iraq in urging Israelis to avoid all-out ground assault in Gaza | CNN Politics
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Biden has encouraged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in their recent conversations to think through how such an invasion would unfold, and what the exit strategy would be, officials said. Biden and Netanyahu spoke on Sunday and again on Monday, and in those conversations, the president sought to try to “get [Netanyahu] to use his head, not his heart,” a source familiar said.
Still, the sentiment across much of the US government is that Israel is almost certain to proceed with a full scale ground invasion, in large part because domestic sentiment inside Israel is so enflamed that Netanyahu may feel he has no other choice.
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We've sent advisors. TBH, I'm not convinced the US tactics below will work.
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In helping the Israel Defense Forces game out a number of different strategies to defeat Hamas, US military advisers on the ground in Israel are invoking lessons learned specifically from Fallujah in 2004, one of the bloodiest battles of the Iraq War.
Instead of launching a full-scale ground assault on Gaza, which could endanger hostages, civilians, and further inflame tensions in the region, US military advisers are urging Israelis to use a combination of precision airstrikes and targeted special operations raids.
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Israel doesn't have many good choices. Personally, I don't think western world opinion (e.g. US) can sustain a prolonged invasion. If they go in, it'll have to be quick, destroy as much of Hamas as possible (and hostages will be secondary).
But because an invasion hasn't been launched yet, good chance that Joe's conversations with Bibi is having its effect.