entreaty

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.

In that same vein, Israel under Netanyahu has apparently paid little heed to U.S. entreaties not to escalate hostilities with Hezbollah.