Posted on 02/13/2021 2:10:05 PM PST by upchuck
... “Can you please just give us a broad sense of what the administration is trying to achieve in the Middle East?” a reporter asked — in follow-up to an earlier question asking why President Biden has yet to call Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“For example,” the reporter asked, “does the administration still consider the Saudis and the Israelis important allies?
Rather than saying simply, “Yes,” Psaki gave this answer, according to a White House transcript of the late-afternoon briefing.
“Well, you know, again, I think we — there are ongoing processes and internal interagency processes — one that we, I think, confirmed an interagency meeting just last week — to discuss a range of issues in the Middle East.
“We’re — we’ve only been here three and a half weeks, and I think I’m going to let those policy processes see themselves through before we give, kind of, a complete laydown of what our national security approaches will be to a range of issues,” she added.
Earlier in the press briefing, in insisting that Biden’s failure to call Netanyahu is “not an intentional diss,” Psaki said, “Obviously, we have a long and important relationship with Israel, and the president has known him and has been working on a range of issues that there’s a mutual commitment to for some time.
“It is just a reflection of the fact that we have been here three and a half weeks, he’s not called every single global leader yet, and he is eager to do that in the weeks ahead.”
A reporter followed up: “But he has called every other major ally in Europe and Asia,” to which Psaki answered, ‘He’s called many of them.”
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Jen needs to be pSakid.
It’s telling that Israel and Saudi Arabia can probably answer that question a lot more directly and honestly than our White House.
Ginger Goebbels will circle back to that.
LOL!! Except shouldn’t it be Psaked? As in sacked?
Pcircle back Psaki psucks!
I find it really, really hard to believe the *resident can’t find an hour or so to talk with Israel. And another hour or so to talk to Saudi Arabia.
we’ve only been here three and a half weeks
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Yeah well Israel has been around for more than three and a half millennium...
waiting for your call...
She talks a lot, but says nothing.
Wow, it sounds like Biden might be planning to overturn Trump’s remarkable moves to bring piece to the Middle East. It’s such a shame that Trump wasn’t permitted to finish what he started there and save untold numbers of lives.
And the Jews that vote Democrat prove over and over again that they dont give a rats ass about Israel
She’s worthless.
I had said Trump would get less votes from Jews this time...I was wrong. He got about 40%. But that says it all.
...but two hours with China...
Does she even know where the restrooms are?
You can bet your bottom dollar he’s called the religious fascists in Tehran.
She could not spin a lie to obfuscate on how the Biden Regime was planning to undue all the agreements in the Middle East that were influenced by the Trump Administration. They must be undone because Orange Mad bad!
Everything done by, or helped by, Bad Orange Man must be destroyed.
The Biden administration seethes with hatred of Israel. Even Obama at least waited until his 2nd term to show his true colors.
He’s working on his quid pro quo.
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