(Ha'aretz) Ben Samuels - Despite President Biden's insistence that the proposal he outlined on Friday was Israel's proposal, both the details of the plan itself and the timing of its delivery caused skeptics to believe that Biden was actually the driving force behind the deal and he was playing a political game by stating it originated from the Israeli side. Shortly after Biden concluded his remarks, U.S. officials put a full court press on their international allies to rally public support for the deal. Meanwhile, the Americans have all but publicly endorsed Israel's seizure of the Philadelphi route on Gaza's border with Egypt - a step U.S. officials had previously promoted as an alternative to a significant military operation in dense population centers.
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