With friends like this who needs enemies? Which isn’t fully fair, because Biden has mostly been a friend of Israel through the years, but, like many on the Left he has Netanyahu Derangement Syndrome
‘Stop bullshitting me’: Biden said to scold Netanyahu in call on truce-hostage deal
US President Joe Biden told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to “stop bullshitting me” during their phone conversation on Thursday, a report said Saturday evening.
Channel 12 news reported, without citing sources, that the outburst had come after Netanyahu told Biden that Israel was moving forward with negotiations on a hostages-for-ceasefire deal with Hamas and would soon send a delegation to resume talks.
Those talks have been ongoing for many months without results, and Biden has previously opined that Netanyahu has been intentionally stalling for internal political reasons.
At the end of Thursday’s conversation, Biden also reportedly said: “Don’t take the president for granted.”
According to Channel 12, this comment was made in the context of Israeli-American cooperation in a potential all-out war with Iran and its proxies, amid sky-high tensions as Iran and its proxy terror groups vow revenge for the recent killing of several terror chiefs. Biden corraled regional powers to help repel Iran’s unprecedented missile-and-drone strike on Israel the night of April 13-14.
Biden desperately wants a win before he leaves office. I wonder if he realizes that an Israeli win is bad for Kamala, as it would make her Jew hating base apoplectic? They are already livid that US forces are heading to the region. Of course, Biden should be threatening Hamas to release the hostages, particularly the American ones.
Separately, the Telegraph reported Saturday, citing a senior Israeli official, that Netanyahu has been feeling more emboldened to strike Iran since Biden’s July 21 decision to drop out of the 2024 US presidential race.
How much is that Netanyahu couldn’t care less about Kamala and how much is it just that Hamas went too far and Israel is done with the attacks?
Calling to de-escalate, Biden says Haniyeh’s death has ‘not helped’ negotiations
US President Joe Biden said Thursday night he was “very concerned” that violence in the Middle East could escalate, adding that this week’s assassination of Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran has “not helped” efforts to negotiate a hostage-ceasefire deal in Gaza, where Israel is at war with the terror group.
Israel has not commented on Haniyeh’s killing, but has been blamed for it by Iran and Hamas, who have vowed revenge.
Biden said he’d had a “very direct” conversation with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier in the day, repeating the phrase “very direct.”
How would Biden react if a terrorist organization had attack US civilians, killing over 1000%, and had been launching attacks for quite some time? Biden should be warning Iran, not Israel.
Well, in fairness, he has much more experience at being an asshole. Just because his corruption, witlessness, incompetence and dementia have become more prominent doesn’t mean he’s any less of a dick.
The last war we actually won? The one in which unconditional surrender was the demand! We killed millions of Germans, Italians, and Japanese to make that happen, but never did any of those nations threaten the United States, or world peace again.
That should be Israel’s end game as well, unconditional surrender. The fate of the Israeli hostages, some of whom are American citizens as well, is sad, but any hostage exchange deal will be a bad one. Israel exchanged 1,027 ‘Palestinian’ hostages for one soldier, and one of those ‘Palestinians’ exchanged was Yahya Sinwar, one of the planners and instigators of October 7th. Some of the others wound up fighting against Israel as well.
The numbers are eerily similar: 1,027 ‘Palestinians’ released, and 1,200 Israelis killed on October 7th; was this a rational exchange for the Jewish state? Not just no, but Hell no!
That should be Israel’s end game as well, unconditional surrender.
Netanyahu (aka smart trump) needs war to stay in power. Unlike Ukraine, Israel continually provokes the Iranians and Palestinians.
President Biden has to strike the balance between the US support for Israel and the worst instincts of Netanyahu to further punish Palestinians.
Too funny-“Israel continually provokes the Iranians and Palestinians..”. Really? Iran continually funds terrorists that are for the destruction of Israel, and the Palestinians continually fire rockets and conduct terror operations in Israel. They don’t need to “provoke” Iran, they can destroy Iran in minutes if they wanted to
Note to Rimjob:
Absolutely nobody pays any attention to Biden anymore. Not even Jill.
Commenter, in response to Mr Teach’s post on President Biden:
Absolutely nobody pays any attention to Biden anymore.
See the incongruity in that statement? No? OK. Mr Teach DID pay attention to President Biden.
Then The Pissant paid attention to President Biden. And the Times of Israel and Netanyahu paid attention.
Sure, sure, we can agree that Teach and The Pissant are nobodies, but the Times of Israel and PM Netanyahu. You can argue that Netanyahu paid attention because his nation (and his power) depends on the United States.
The liberal from St Louie wrote, “Unlike Ukraine, Israel continually provokes the Iranians and Palestinians.”
Let’s tell the truth here: Israel “continually provokes the Iranians and the Palestinians” simply by existing!
Do you know what this is?
It looked like a kind of reading room to my Western eyes, but it’s actually a small mosque, on the Via Dolorosa in the Old City in Jerusalem. In officially Jewish Israel, Christian churches and Islamic mosques are permitted. SSG Pico and I went inside, were greeted perfectly politely. Of course, they were trying to convert us, but gently and respectfully; it was more of an educational attempt than anything else.
This was November of 2022, eleven months before a ravening horde of ‘Palestinian’ terrorists launched a surprise attack, killing 1,200 unarmed Jewish civilians, and carrying off another 250 into captivity as hostages. But, to our Sage from St Louis, it’s Israel provoking the Muslims, not the other way around.
Mr Dana should read up on what the Israelis have done and are doing to the Palestinians in the West Bank.
Read about the checkpoints, water restrictions, land seizures, Israeli illegal settlements, killings, detentions, soldiers… these abuses, this lack of freedom lead to revolt.
They need a negotiated peace that includes a Palestinian homeland, the so-called two-state solution.
The MAGAt wet dream that all Arabs and the Iranians be exterminated will never happen.
Yet it wasn’t the Arabs in Judea and Samaria who revolted; it was the Arabs, led by Hamas, in Gaza, which Israel had completely evacuated on 2005, who revolted.
The ‘Palestinian Authority’ had that ‘two-state solution’ in hand, at the end of 2000, and Bill Clinton’s term, which would have granted complete independence to all of Gaza, and 97% of Judea and Samaria, with some property exchanges in Israel proper to make up the missing 3%, and Yassir Arafat rejected it! He claimed that it didn’t provide a ‘right of return’ for Arabs to their former homes in Israel, which was true enough, but the real reason is that he knew that if he signed it, he would be killed by the irredentists who will never accept any Jewish state.
President Clinton said that it was the best negotiated deal for which the Arabs could ever hope.
Is Israel reacting harshly in Judea and Samaria? Yup, they sure are . . . which is hardly surprising considering that the f(ornicating) Arabs have started another war!
Just like the Democrat wet dream that all Jews, Christians and whites will be exterminated will never happen.
You guys gonna try to kill Trump again or are you gonna settle for trying to steal another election from him? You’ve tried everything seems murder is all that’s left.
The Abortionist seems obsessed with murder!!
Recall the failed assassin was a Republican psycho who was an extremist ranting against “illegals” and “Jews”.
Are you claiming that the local police, state police, FBI and Secret Service tried to kill Mr Trump rather than just displaying incompetence?
Anyway, the US has an ample history of politically motivated assassination attempts.
*Huey Long^ (D-LA) – 1935
FDR (D-NY)^ – 1933 (Chicago Mayor Cermak was shot and killed; missed FDR)
Harry Truman^ (D-MO) – 1950 (attack by Puerto Rican nationalists)
Bentley^ (R), Davis^ (D), Fallon^ (D), Jensen^ (R), Roberts (D)^ – 1954 (Puerto Rican nationalist shooting in Congress)
JFK (D-MA) – 1960 (planned car bomb)
*JFK^ (D-MA) – 1963
*Medgar Evers^ – 1963 (Civil rights activist killed by KKK member)
*RFK^ (D-MA) – 1968
*MLK^ – 1968 (Civil rights activist)
George Wallace^ (D-AL) – 1972
John Stennis^ (D-MS) – 1973 (shot in a mugging)
Richard Nixon^ (R-CA) – 1974
Gerald Ford^ (R-MI) – 1975 (twice!!)
Ronald Reagan^ (R-IL) – 1978
*Leo Ryan^ (D-CA) – 1978 (Jonestown, Guyana)
Jackie Speier^ (D-CA) – 1978 (Jonestown, Guyana)
*Larry McDonald (D-CA) – 1983 (Korean Air shot down by Russia)
George H.W. Bush (R-ME) – 1993 (Kuwait car bomb)
*125 Pentagon officials – 2001 (9/11 attack on Pentagon by ISIS; 64 passengers died including several children)
Barack Obama^ (R-IL) – 2011
Gabby Giffords^ (R-AZ) – 2012
Steve Scalise^ (R-LA) – 2017
Rand Paul (R-KY) – 2017 (fist fight with neighbor over yard work)
Obama, Biden, H. Clinton (Dems) – 2018 (bombs sent)
Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) – (kidmaping plot)
Angie Craig (R-MN) – 2023 (attacked in DC apartment)
Donald Trump^ (R-FL) – 2024
We’re a volatile, violent species!
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* Killed
^ shooting