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Newsom has rebuffed those entreaties, and the White House seems no closer to making any significant moves forward.

By limiting its attacks to military targets, Israel may have been heeding entreaties by the Biden administration to avoid Iran’s oil fields and nuclear research facilities as a way to temper any Iranian retaliation.

This included entreaties to allow more food, water and medicine into a starving Gaza Strip and minimizing civilian casualties.

Most of Biden’s entreaties have been largely ignored by Israel’s right-wing government.

In turning a deaf ear to U.S. entreaties, Netanyahu seems to be taking advantage of Biden’s emotional affinity for Israel and of the political timing that ties the lame-duck president’s hands.