this is a political decision the
administration on a second track has to
make a determination of whether Israel
is using weapons that we have given them
many billions of dollars of weapons uh
just in this conflict in a legal way but
this is political pressure because the
administration uh felt that Israel was
trying to rush into a major offensive in
uh Rafa right on the Egyptian border
where the remnants of Hamas and some 1.4
million gazan CI are all located without
listening to the administration which
wants a very different kind of campaign
if any at all so this was political
pressure