the us defense secretary, a janelle lloyd austin, visited israel and stated quite that american support for israel. israel security is unshakable. that's putting the messaging all along. so what is lloyd austin achieved on this visit? so it really does seem like washington is trying to send a layered message to israel. here you do have that surface message of unshakable support to israel. but the nice of that surface message is the expectation that the u. s. as is relevant, biggest defense and diplomatic back or that it expects to be listened to. so lord austin, while he was in israel, he reiterated his message about protecting civilians is a moral and strategic imperative. at the same time, his talks with his rarely officials focused on how to scale back is really operations away from heavy aerial bombardment away from the heavy ground operation into gaza into something much more targeted and narrow intelligence driven aimed specifically at homeless leaders. but it is unclear how much is ro is taking on, is taking on board at the moment. it is not clear whether israel and the u. s. are

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