Inside President Biden’s pointed phone call with Benjamin Netanyahu

CNN ^ | Sun April 7, 2024 | MJ Lee

[MinorityRepublican]

President Joe Biden ticked through several things that he needed to see Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu do immediately: open up the Erez crossing into northern Gaza and the port of Ashdod in southern Israel for humanitarian aid; significantly ramp up the supplies getting in through Kerem Shalom.

A person familiar with the Thursday call paraphrased Netanyahu as responding: “Joe, we’re gonna do it.”

But Biden wasn’t finished. The prime minister must announce the moves that evening, the president insisted.

By Thursday night, the Israeli security cabinet had approved those three measures to increase humanitarian aid entering the besieged enclave.

The relatively brief phone call between the two leaders this week marked the first time since Hamas’ attack on Israel in October that Biden threatened Netanyahu with serious consequences if Israel did not change the way it was waging its war in Gaza. Biden, who has remained steadfast in his support of Israel’s right to defend itself — even amid growing political backlash at home — warned the prime minister that if conditions did not rapidly improve for civilians in the strip, he would reconsider how the US was backing Israel in the conflict.

[af_vet_1981]

If the “other country” in question has been a U.S. welfare case for more than 75 years, then I’d say it barely qualifies as a sovereign nation anyway.

Repeated posts have indicated your hatred for Israel. You will not convince the genuine Christians here to hate Israel like you do.

Wouldn't you be more comfortable among like minded leftists who support Hamas and a terrorist Philistinian state

You are a blot on FR, a spot on our threads.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Doubtful Joe is capable of a phone call like that. 🙄

[mac_truck]

Why did this guy have to die before the United States decided to get tough with the Israelis?

[af_vet_1981]

Because your team tortured, murdered, abducted, and raped (still raping if they are alive) more than 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2024.

[eeriegeno]

Thoughtful looking cadaver right there! I wonder how much fluid they pumped into him to make him sit upright?

[mac_truck]

Meh...you don’t have to be a Hamas supporter to question Israel’s genocidal tendencies toward the Palestinians or their propaganda around it.

[Vaduz]

Democrat party has yet to find a terrorist group that didn’t have a good pay off in the long run.

[af_vet_1981]

Yes, you have to hate Israel and the Jewish people to believe the Islamic and Philistine propaganda.

If you hate Israel and the Jewish people, you hate the God of Israel.

One might say, because you hate the God of Israel, you hate Israel and the Jewish people. It is a symbiotic relationship that the nations engage in because they have been deceived by the adversary who has an eternal hatred for Israel. One might argue that they are deceived, yet they choose to hate, so their sin remains.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Israel is pulling out of Gaza—Biden’s work is done. Now to build the port and re-arm Hamas for another blow at the Jews.

[Alberta's Child]

Oh, would you give it a rest. I don't hate Israel. In fact, I have nothing but antipathy for any of those countries in that region over there.

If the U.S. taxpayer wasn't subsidizing their European-style welfare state, I wouldn't even bother posting about them here.

If you have an American family living next door to you and they were collecting welfare from your taxes for 75 years, you'd be all over this website clamoring for someone to burn their house down. Hypocrite.

[af_vet_1981]

Oh, would you give it a rest. I don't hate Israel. In fact, I have nothing but antipathy for any of those countries in that region over there. If the U.S. taxpayer wasn't subsidizing their European-style welfare state, I wouldn't even bother posting about them here.

By your words you will be condemned
1. You wrote "I have nothing but antipathy for any of those countries in that region over there."
2. Therefore you do hate Israel.
3. The fact that you hate all the countries does not exculpate your hatred of Israel.

If you have an American family living next door to you and they were collecting welfare from your taxes for 75 years, you'd be all over this website clamoring for someone to burn their house down. Hypocrite.

You condemn yourself as a hypocrite, not me. I have no such hatred for that family but it seems to me that you must to invent it as your example.

[SaveFerris]

s/b “I thought” - too sleepy oops 😬

[SaveFerris]

Early afternoon BUMP