The aftermath of Iran's overnight attack on Israel is still affecting the situation in the Middle East. According to a source familiar with the White House, Biden has personally set the tone, Iran will not fight again, and Israel is not allowed to fight back, but the question is, will Netanyahu, who has fallen into madness, obediently obey?
Biden has already set the tone personally, and Iran will not fight again
It has been 48 hours since Iran attacked Israel, and so far, the Israeli army has not counterattacked, and the Netanyahu government has not shown any intention to fight back for the time being. According to the official version of the United States and Israel, they intercepted 99% of Iran's drones and missiles, which is a "great victory", and since the losses are not large, there is no need to let the situation continue to escalate, especially since the United States has received official assurances from Iran that it will not launch another attack.
It seems that this is a bit like the assassination of Iran's senior Iranian general Soleimani by the United States during the Trump administration, and the Iranian air strikes on many US military bases. But the situation in the Middle East today is very different from a few years ago, at least the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is still ongoing. After the Iranian attack, the Israeli army launched another air strike on Gaza, causing many casualties, as if to vent its anger, so the question is, if Israel and Iran both choose not to escalate the conflict, can you pretend that this incident did not happen?
The Biden administration has taken a very cautious approach in this conflict
The Biden administration has made it clear that it does not want the situation in the region to escalate. In a phone call with Netanyahu, he himself said bluntly that he opposed Israel's retaliation. Biden is also really annoyed, he neither foresaw Hamas's "Al-Aqsa flood operation" on October 7 last year, nor did he expect that Netanyahu's war on Gaza for half a year could create so many humanitarian tragedies, making him not a human being.
Now there is a sense of skepticism within the U.S. government, which believes that Netanyahu is fighting this war purely to prolong his time in power, otherwise he would not have killed the three sons of Hamas leader Haniyeh and attacked the Iranian embassy at the critical moment when Palestinian-Israeli negotiations are about to begin.
Netanyahu
For Netanyahu, prolonging the war, letting the situation spiral out of control, and dragging Iran and the United States into the water is an established plan, but the question is, how much will the civilian population of Gaza, the United States, and the world pay in the process? When the cost is too great for the United States to bear, cutting off military aid to Israel, or even removing Netanyahu from power, becomes an easy decision to make.
You see, right now, Biden didn't even speak about Iran's air strikes in Israel, but in private, through U.S. government officials, he tried to coordinate the positions of all parties, and at the same time, there were larger demonstrations in Israel because of the attack, demanding that Netanyahu step down. If the United States can take the opportunity to get rid of Netanyahu, it will not only resolve the contradictions between Israel and Iran, but also resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict more quickly, and promote the official implementation of the "two-state solution" of the United Nations.
Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi
Of course, what the United States is saying on the surface is that it will not give up on Israel, that it will protect the security of the Israeli people, and that Israel is a sovereign country, and they will make their own decisions, and so on. I just don't know that these words don't sound like a "death knell" to Netanyahu.