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.
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