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White House Noncommittal On Idea of Growing Rift Btwn. U.S. and Israel

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(The Guardian) White House spokesman refuses to say what Israel policies US could change
At a White House briefing, national security council spokesperson John Kirby was repeatedly asked what the US policy changes are on the table that would be determined by Washington’s assessment of Israel’s steps to address civilian harm in Gaza.

Kirby said he was not going to preview any potential policy decisions. -- What we want to see are some real changes on the Israeli side. We don’t see changes from their side.

The US is looking for “concrete, tangible” steps “in the coming hours and days” that would include a dramatic increase in the humanitarian assistance getting into Gaza, additional crossings opening up, and a reduction in the violence against civilians and aid workers, he said. -- We want to see that the Israelis are willing and able to take practical, immediate steps to protect a workers on the ground and to demonstrate that they have that civilian harm mitigation in place.

He said the US will “watch closely” for what steps Israel will take, and that Washington is not looking for just an announcement “but it’s the execution of those announcements and those decisions and implementing them.”
Biden feeling 'growing frustration' with Netanyahu, says White House
John Kirby, the national security spokesperson, said the call between Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu lasted about 30 minutes.

Asked if there had been growing frustration on the part of Biden that his previous messages to the Israeli leader hadn’t gotten through, Kirby said: Yes, there’s been growing frustration.
 
If our government had a good economy rolling again with less and less people struggling financially, I could see us helping with this more. But I'm of the mind that things are getting so bad in our country that we need to work on fixing our own problems instead of getting involved with other countries so long as it is not a threat to us too. We can't help others when we're stretched as thin as we are. We have a president who has dementia and can't even do speeches anymore, We've got inflation up to our eye balls, a migration crisis that we're not even dealing with, not to mention we have a homeless crisis that is at an all time high, and a lot of dead end job owners out there that cant even support their own business anymore. The government is basically charging people for money they don't have. It's gotten ridiculous.

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