“This is the most conservative government in the history of Israel”: Joe Biden asks Netanyahu to “change” his government
According to the American news agency AP, Joe Biden claims to have told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Israel risks losing international support due to “indiscriminate bombing” during the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
Speaking at a fundraiser for his re-election campaign in Washington on Tuesday, Joe Biden said: “Israel has a difficult decision to make. (…) This is the most conservative government in Israeli history.”said the American president, calling on Benjamin Netanyahu to “strengthen and change” the Israeli executive.
This is the first time since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 that the 81-year-old democrat has publicly expressed his differences with the Israeli executive.
Joe Biden also questioned Itamar Ben Gvir, leader of a far-right Israeli party and minister of national security in Netanyahu’s government coalition. Mr Ben-Gvir opposes a two-state solution and has called on Israel to reassert its control over the entire West Bank and Gaza.
The US president also said he had urged Benjamin Netanyahu not to “make the same mistakes” that the United States after September 11, claiming that the American military response had plunged it into a long war in Afghanistan.
Monday evening, the American president declared that Benjamin Netanyahu had a photograph on his desk showing him in the company of Joe Biden, when the latter was a young senator. The 81-year-old Democrat said he wrote the following sentence on the photo: “Bibi [le surnom du dirigeant israélien], I like you very much but I don’t agree with anything you say. » “And it’s still true today”added Joe Biden, in front of the representatives of the Jewish community whom he had invited to the White House.