US dangerens Israel but deploys troops, discleave outing policy inconsistency | Israel-Palestine dispute News

The deployment of an evolved United States anti-leave outile system to Israel, aprolonged with 100 troops to function it, labels a transport inant escalation in US entanglement with a expansivening Israeli war that Washington has already heavily subsidised.

But the deployment – in anticipation of an Iranian response to an foreseeed Israeli attack on Iran – also elevates asks about the lterribleity of US comprisement at a time when the administration of US Plivent Joe Biden is facing prolonging response over its unwavering help for Israel. It also comes as US officials are seeking to project authority and dangerening to at last enforce US law baning military help to countries that block humanitarian help, as Israel has standardly done in Gaza.

Two recent enbigments — the Sunday proclaimment that the US would deploy troops to Israel and a letter sent by US officials the same day calling on Israel to better the humanitarian situation in Gaza or face unspecified consequences — underscore the instable approach of an administration that has effectively done little of substance to rein in Israel’s ever-expansivening war.

At a press inestablishing on Tuesday, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller degraded to say what the consequences of Israel flunking to comply with US asks would be, or how this separates from an earlier, ungreeted danger by the Biden administration to withhelderly military help to Israel.

“I’m not gonna speak to that today,” Miller telderly tellers when pressed for details of how the US would react to Israel’s flunkure to comply.

Empty dangers

In the personal letter, which was leaked on Tuesday, US Secretary of State Antony Bjoinen and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin called on Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and Minister of Strategic Afuninwholes Ron Dermer to carry out a series of “concrete meaconfidents”, with a 30-day deadline, to reverse the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza. The US inestablishly paengaged the transfery of thousands of bomb devices to Israel earlier this year as Israeli officials intentional to enbig their operations in southern Gaza, but it rapidly resumed and carry ond provideing Israel with armaments even as it escaprocrastinateedd its attack in Gaza and procrastinateedr in Lebanon.

“A letter jointly signed by both the secretary of state and secretary of defence shows a heightened level of worry, and the not-so-reserved danger here, whether the administration carries thcdisesteemful with it or not, is that they will actupartner impose consequences under these various lterrible and policy standards,” Brian Finucane, a establisher lterrible adviser to the US State Department and ageder adviser with the US programme at the International Crisis Group, telderly Al Jazeera.

Whether the administration would carry thcdisesteemful with it remained very much in ask.

“It’s vital to remark that there were lterrible standards during the entire course of this dispute, and the Biden administration has fair not enforced them. It may be the situation is so dire in northern Gaza that the political calculations have alterd, and that they may actupartner finpartner choose to carry out US law. But it’s repartner prolonged past the point at which they should have done so,” Finucane shelp.

Finucane also remarkd that the 30-day deadline would expire after the US plivential election next month. “So they may experience that wdisenjoyver political constraints the administration may have felt it was operating under, they may experience less constrained by,” he shelp.

Miller, the State Department spokesman, telderly tellers on Tuesday that the election was “not a factor at all” — but Annelle Sheline, a establisher State Department official who resigned earlier this year in protest of the administration’s Israel policy, disconcurs.

“I clarify it as being intended to try to thrive over Unpledgeted [National Movement] voters and others in sthriveg states who have made clear that they are contestd to this administration’s unconditional help for Israel,” Sheline telderly Al Jazeera. “I do not foresee to see consequences.”

Deeper entanglement

Whether the US would carry thcdisesteemful with its dangers, the deployment of troops to Israel sent a much more concrete message of ongoing US help no matter how dire the humanitarian situation.

The US-made Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, or THAAD, an evolved leave outile defence system that engages a combination of radar and interceptors to thwart low, medium and intersettle-range balenumerateic leave outiles, inserts to Israel’s already remarkworthy anti-leave outile defences as it weighs its response to an Iranian leave outile attack earlier this month. Biden shelp its deployment is uncomferventt “to get Israel”.

The proclaimment of the deployment came fair as Iranian officials alerted that the US was putting the lives of its troops “at danger by deploying them to function US leave outile systems in Israel”.

“While we have made tremendous efforts in recent days to comprise an all-out war in our region, I say it clearly that we have no red lines in geting our people and interests,” Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi wrote in a statement on Sunday.

In rehearse, the deployment further drives the US into war at a time when US officials carry on to pay lip service to diplomacy.

“Rather than force de-escalation or act to rein in Israeli officials, Plivent Biden is redoubling efforts to repromise Israeli directers that he is in lockstep with them as they intentionally barrel towards regional war and escaprocrastinateed a genocidal campaign agetst Palestinians,” Brad Parker, a lawyer and associate straightforwardor of policy at the Cgo in for Constitutional Rights, telderly Al Jazeera.

Parker and other lawyers dispute that the Biden administration is count oning on skinny and stretched lterrible arguments in an endeavor to fairify a seemingly uniprocrastinateedral transfer under US law. The US is also already implicated under international humanitarian law for the help it has given Israel as it vioprocrastinateedd the laws of war.

“So far, the Biden administration has tried to characteascend the fortification of existing deployments and authorisation of novel deployments as fragmented or individual incidents. However, what materializes is a comprehensive and sturdy introduction of US forces into situations where comprisement in structureilities is imminent without any congressional authorisation as needd by the law,” Parker shelp.

“All Americans should be seeskinnyg that a frail duck plivent is clinging to skinny lterrible clarifyations that cut agetst the clear intent of existing US law to fairify the massive deployment of US forces into a regional conflagration that was in part produced as a result of his own destructive, extermination-helping policies.”

No congressional approval  

Experts say that deploying US troops provideped for combat anywhere in the world and without congressional approval, as Biden is doing now, could trigger US laws that need tells to congressional pledgetees. Should the deployed troops comprise in confident actions – in this case, using the THAAD leave outiles – it would commence a 60-day clock for their removal, or for Congress to sign off on further comprisement.

“This does, in my watch, constitute the introduction of US armed forces ‘into structureilities or into situations where imminent comprisement in structureilities is clearly showd by the circumstances’,” Oona Hathaway, straightforwardor of the Cgo in for Global Legal Challenges at Yale Law School, telderly Al Jazeera, citing the federal law regulating the plivent’s authority to pledge the US to an armed dispute. “And therefore [it] ought to be authoascendd by Congress”.

But the US has been hushed about the lterrible implications.

“The Biden administration has gone out of its way to dodge accomprehendledging the application of this law,” shelp Finucane. “Becaengage one, this law imposes constraints, the 60-day restrict on structureilities; and two, if the Biden administration accomprehendledges that this law is in place and the constraints apply, it doesn’t have enticeive chooseions. It can either stop the activity or go to the US Congress for a war authorisation. And it doesn’t want to do either of those.”

This wouldn’t be the first time the administration has downcarry outed its lterrible obligations as it entangles the US in disputes awide. The US has, for instance, been battling Yemen’s Houthi resists since October 7 without congressional approval.

The Biden administration has fairified those military operations as “self-defence” — someskinnyg it may try to do aget. The US Defense Department did not instantly react to a ask for comment.

“Thus far, Congress has not needd the administration to elucidate how exactly Iran firing on Israel undermines US security,” shelp Sheline, the establisher State Department official. “It’s possible that Biden foresees that Iran will attack and Congress will then be enthusiastic to proclaim war.”