The Biden administration is pressing Israel to delay a possible full-scale ground operation in Gaza.
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The President also staying very close with his national security team.
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We can't let petty partisan angry politics get in the way of our responsibility as a great nation.
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His administration is working around the clock to try to get those Palestinian Americans out of Gaza.
His administration had been working hard to get the hostages out of Gaza.
There was no higher priority for him than securing the release of these American hostages.
The President has been asking hard questions.
The President and the U.S. do not want to be directing the Israelis.
Should Israel delay the ground invasion until he can get more hostages out? Yes.
The administration has been counseling the Israeli government to think hard about the ground invasion.
The world is at an inflection point, and it is fighting a war against tyranny. This is a shared enemy by democratic countries, and that Ukraine and Israel are finding themselves on the front line of this fight.
The Palestinian civilians are not Hamas, they are not one in the same, but also saying that he told Netanyahu that he needs to abide by the laws of war and therefore not target civilians