The Biden Administration had hoped to keep quiet for as long as possible their decision to block shipments of military aid to Israel due to the “political sensitivity” of such a move prior to the president himself owning it in an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett, the Wall Street Journal reports.
An anonymous official told the Journal they “weren’t trying to break this out into the open, we were trying to handle this in a diplomatic way,” but Israeli officials, as probably should have been expected, ended up complaining to Axios about the move, which then broke it out into the open.