Posted on 02/11/2021 6:56:00 AM PST by nikos1121
In his first three weeks in office, President Joe Biden has made a flurry of phone calls to American allies around the world, including the leaders of Canada, Britain, France and Japan.
But one close American ally’s leader has so far been left conspicuously off the new president’s call list: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
While it is clear that Biden has his hands full with a myriad domestic challenges, every day the phone doesn’t ring adds to concerns in Israel that Netanyahu is being frozen out by the new Democratic administration because of his close ties with Donald Trump and his public antagonism of Barack Obama.
The contrast between Biden and Trump is stark: Trump called Netanyahu within two days of taking office in 2017.
“It’s a clear sign of displeasure from President Biden with the fact that Prime Minister Netanyahu was perceived in Washington for the last 12 years as almost a card-carrying member of the Republican Party,” said Dani Dayan, a former Israel consul-general in New York.
Dayan was appointed to the post by Netanyahu in 2016 but is now part of New Hope, a right-wing political party led by former allies of Netanyahu who are running against him in upcoming elections.
Danny Danon, Israel’s former ambassador to the United Nations and a member of Netanyahu’s Likud party, was blunter.
In a tweet addressed to Biden, he asked: “Might it now be time to call the leader of Israel, the closest ally of the U.S.?” before typing out a phone number for Netanyahu’s office. (The number appeared to be out of service when NBC News attempted to call it.)
Israeli media commentators have also been counting the days and interpreting a deliberate snub. Biden spoke to Russia President Vladimir Putin a week after being inaugurated and to Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Wednesday night.
“To Netanyahu's sorrow, it seems that the Americans are very interested in proving that Biden is not such a close personal friend of the prime minister,” one columnist with Makor Rishon, a conservative newspaper, wrote. “Is Biden ghosting Netanyahu?” another headline asked.
Netanyahu has shrugged off the lack of contact from the White House, pointing out that Biden has not yet called any Middle Eastern leaders.
The same thing I would say about any other leader:
Netanyahu can damned well call the President; the United Statis is under exactly ZERO obligation to any other nation on the planet. Democrat or republican, they can come kiss OUR ass.
Netanyahu congratulated Biden the morning if the 4th. Done with him. Hope he enjoys his new friend in DC.
a) Weakens America/Americans
b) Distances America's allies
c) Strengthens America's enemies
d) Attacks Christianity
e) Serves islam
f) Harms Israel
Or some combination of the above.
I suspect that most of the money-donor Jews knew who he was, and they didn’t care. So why should Biden give a crap about Israel at this point?
Netanyahu’s biggest concern is the possibility that NSA monitoring or CIA snooping has identifed the identities and details of Mossad’s operation within Iran. No that the Left once again has overt control of NSA and CIA, Netanyahu is fearful that the information will be “leaked” to the mullahs. It makes little difference if Biden speaks to him or not. Biden will have no idea what the Left’s operatives are doing or will do.
If Iran shows signs of assembling nuclear bombs and loads them on missiles, Israel, with or without US help or approval will take definitive action. That action includes stealth F35 fighter/bombers with landing rights in remote Gulf landing sites, drones and active on the ground sabotage, assassinations and painting of targets by Mossad within Iran. The Mossad operation is critical to Israel’s success or failure. Talking to Biden really doesn’t matter.
Senior Moment by President Depends.
Does what DesertRhino reports in post #4 suffice?
Most Dims I know are anti-Semites.
Yet, most of the Jews I know are Dims.
Biden giving big bucks to the Palestinians will probably nix the relationship.
I didn’t even bother trying to post on the similar thread on this topic over on FARK.com
The entire thread is just an end-to-end hate-boner against Israel (but don’t you *dare* call that hate “Anti-Semitism”, no siree!)
The quasi-official “not Anti-Semitic” hate-boner amongst the “woke” is big enough to make a bull elephant jealous. (rolls eyes)
Other than that it was a “perfect phone call”.
>>Biden spoke to Russia President Vladimir Putin a week after being inaugurated and to Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Wednesday night.
When you are in bed with someone, they get miffed if you don’t call or when you call someone else first.
Quid Pro Joe
Raising fears....
That relationship is over before it even starts. And it isn’t so much Biden, as we all know. CornPop has no idea where he is, what he says, who he’s meeting with or what he’s doing. The war mongers, Israel haters, and Anti-American Commies that are in his administration are the ones handling that.
The Middle East will soon be up in flames. Countries and governments that have signed onto the Abraham Accords will soon be overthrown so the Muslim Brotherhood can be reborn. And Israel will be forced to handle some business.
I seriously doubt he’s called anybody. He’s too senile to hold a conversation.
Biden may end up speaking to Khamenei before he talks to Netanyahu. Biden has already populated his administration with Israel-hating leftists, as many predicted he would.
And yet, an overwhelming majority of American Jews voted for Biden. This was after Trump delivered some of the most significant advances in Middle East peace in two-generations.
Go figure.
I have always liked BiBi and have prayed for him for years, but when he warmly congratulated Xiden on his sham “victory”, I was profoundly disappointed in him. He could have just waited a bit like the president of Mexico did, but instead, he jumped the gun.
Now he is seeing what Xiden really thinks of him.
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