Administration officials have also discussed offering the Israeli government more of the weaponry it has requested as an incentive to take some steps that the U.S. has requested, officials said.
Who is this even for? Amid all the bullshit around US opposition to teh genocide, who is "We're going to let off teh gas so we're only doing 95 genocide instead of 130 genocide" for?
It's not even that. Biden isn't even pretending to use leverage. He's giving Israel what they want and then he's making meek and ridiculous statements to the American media.
This reminds me of Biden's 2021 moronic "negotiations" with Sinema and Manchin who never act in good faith. He gave away the store and threw away his leverage. Then he asked them meekly if they'd do what he liked.
That won't work. In fact - it's guaranteed to fail.
Three U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the issue told me there was no direction from the White House to review or slow-walk weapons supply to Israel. Two of the officials told me there are some people in the administration who would like this to be true, but it isn't.
