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Cailianshe News, April 10 (Editor: Ma Lan)On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there was a set date for Israel's invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza, but did not reveal when it would be. This caused an uproar in the international community and was severely criticized by many countries.

However, many senior officials of the US government did not take Netanyahu's threat seriously. According to senior officials, Netanyahu's statement that he would attack Rafah on a specific date was just a bluff, which was related to the increasingly weak political position of his government in Israel.

The US government officially stated on Tuesday that Israel had not exchanged information with the US about the specific date of the attack on Rafah. But it also pointed out that no force in the world can prevent the Israeli army from entering Rafah.

US National Security Advisor Sullivan stressed that if Israel really attacked Rafah, it would only prove that it did not share relevant information with the United States.

A feint?

Netanyahu previously said that the attack on Rafah was a key step in eliminating the Hamas organization in Gaza. Israeli officials added that there are still four Hamas battalions in Rafah that Israel must eliminate.

However, behind this high-sounding excuse lies the current situation of the Netanyahu government, which is trapped both internally and externally.

Most political analysts believe that once the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is mediated, Israel will experience a storm of political purges and Netanyahu's fragile far-right ruling coalition may fall apart.

This has also led the US government to avoid making public comments on the Israeli government and Netanyahu himself. A senior official pointed out that Biden's attitude towards Netanyahu is very delicate, and the US government from top to bottom avoids commenting on Israeli politics.

However, the stalemate between the United States and Israel is no secret. As early as December last year, Biden expressed his dissatisfaction with Netanyahu during a campaign event. He said that the Israeli government was too tough and that Netanyahu's presence changed the entire conflict.

At an online U.S.-Israel meeting last week, Biden's senior national security officials reportedly had been pressuring the Israeli government to demand that the Israel Defense Forces come up with a plan to evacuate a large number of civilians from Rafah, including details such as where these people would be housed and how much food and water resources they would need.

But Israeli officials did not give an answer, instead arguing that not attacking Rafah would waste Israel's efforts over the past six months to clear Rafah.

U.S. officials believe that without a comprehensive plan such as evacuating 1.4 million Rafah civilians, Israel is unlikely to actually set a schedule for an attack on Rafah.