The Wall Street Journal revealed that US President Joe Biden urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last October to “stop” a pre-emptive strike he was planning against Hezbollah in Lebanon, days after the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation in Lebanon. October 7, and warned him that such an attack “may ignite a broader regional war.”
The newspaper quoted officials as saying that Israel had intelligence information – which the United States considered “unreliable” – that “Hezbollah militants were preparing to cross the border as part of a multi-pronged attack.”
Israeli warplanes were in the air “waiting for orders when Biden spoke with Netanyahu on October 11 and asked the Israeli prime minister to think about the consequences of such an action,” according to what the newspaper quoted people familiar with the conversation between them.
There was no Israeli attack after that, while the conversation between Biden and other American officials and Netanyahu and the war government he heads was not previously revealed.
