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Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/2024/07/22/americas-bear-hug-how-us-policies-hamper-israels-war-efforts/
Well-Intentioned U.S. Policies Have Prolonged the Gaza Conflict
(Israel Hayom) Nadav Shragai - The U.S., while providing crucial military support to Israel, has inadvertently hindered our war efforts against Hamas. With humanitarian aid that benefits the terrorists and restrictions on IDF actions, America's well-intentioned policies have prolonged the conflict and increased suffering. Alongside the air and sea bridge of armaments and weapons to Israel, the U.S. ensured a "humanitarian train" for Gaza residents, including fuel and food in insane quantities. Hamas seized most of it and even made a nice profit from selling it to the Gazan population. Thus, in practice, the U.S. helped to preserve Hamas's governing capability and provided Hamas's leadership with more and more fuel, allowing it to fight and exist for many more months in underground Gaza and continue firing at Israeli border communities. Moreover, there is an inherent anomaly in the decision to aid the murderous enemy of your closest ally in the Middle East, conduct that would not have crossed America's mind against its own enemies. The U.S. also sought to limit the nature and pace of Israel's fighting, as well as the types of armaments it is allowed to use. These restrictions further endanger IDF soldiers, slow down their rate of progress in the combat zones, and prolong the war. In addition, it turned out that the delay in sending weapons to Israel does not relate to one weapons shipment of a certain type, as Biden claimed, but to various ammunition that Israel paid for, and which was delayed for months, in the fields of artillery and air and tank warfare, as well as thousands of kits which turn bombs into smart target-guided bombs.