President Biden And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone Wednesday for the first time in more than 50 days.
It came after new tensions emerged in their relationship: Netanyahu refused to approve a US visit by his Defense Minister Yoav Galant on Tuesday until Biden called him.
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Spoke to Netanyahu Former President Trump Wednesday, before speaking with Biden. Vice President Kamala Harris joined the president on the call.
This comes as Israel is considering its options for retaliation Missile barrage Iran opened fire on the Jewish state last week.
Gallant warned on Wednesday that Israel's response would certainly surprise Iran.
“As we have demonstrated in this war and in every arena thus far, whoever attacks Israel will pay a price. Our attacks will be powerful, precise and, above all, surprising. They won’t understand what happened and how it happened,” he said. an IDF briefing informed the intelligence unit.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone with President Biden on Wednesday. (Office of the Prime Minister of Israel)
Biden warned Netanyahu to ensure his response was “proportionate” and avoid hitting Iran’s nuclear facilities.
The long-standing relationship between the two men soured in the months following the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.
Another indication of their mutual hatred came on the one-year anniversary of the attack, when Biden called Israeli President Isaac Herzog to Netanyahu.
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Since the last call from world leaders, Israel has launched an aggressive offensive into Lebanon and has successfully removed Hezbollah's top leadership in a short period of time.
The group's leader was killed in an Israeli airstrike. Hasan Nasrallah, And now also his successor, according to Netanyahu.
President Biden meets with Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House on July 25, 2024.
Smoke and flames rise in the southern suburbs of Beirut following an Israeli airstrike, seen from Sin El Fil, Lebanon, October 6, 2024. (Reuters/Amr Abdullah Dalsh)
Netanyahu is also known for distrusting his defense minister, whom he tried to shoot twice. Gallant criticized Netanyahu for not publicly revealing post-war plans for Gaza.
In a particularly heated phone call in April, Biden asked Netanyahu: “What’s your strategy, man?” According to Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward in his new book “War.”
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Netanyahu said at the time that Israel had to move to the Gaza-Egypt border city of Rafah, which he claimed was a Hamas stronghold.
“Bibi, you have no strategy,” Biden told Netanyahu, who accused him of “not caring” about Hamas and “only himself.”
After Israel entered Rafah, Biden said of Netanyahu: “He is a liar.”
According to Woodward, Biden said privately, “AB’s son, Bibi Netanyahu, he’s a bad guy.” “He’s a bad guy!”
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Biden said he felt, in Woodward's accounting, that Netanyahu was “regularly lying to him.” With Netanyahu “continuing to say he will kill the last member of Hamas.” “Biden told him it was impossible, threatening, both privately and publicly, to block U.S. shipments of offensive weapons,” Woodward wrote.
