Posted on 12/21/2021 2:51:57 PM PST by Eleutheria5
For three weeks already, US President Joe Biden has not answered Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's request for a phone conversation on the issue of Iran's nuclear program, Channel 13 News reported.
The disagreements are believed to stem from a recent conversation between Bennett and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken touched on the issue of construction in Judea and Samaria. During that conversation, Bennett made definite statements regarding Israel's right to expand Jewish towns in the area.
On Tuesday evening, a delegation of senior American officials, headed by the US National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, landed in Israel.
The delegation will meet Bennett and top Israeli officials to discuss the Iranian nuclear program, but it will also meet with Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to discuss the relationship between Israel and the PA.
It is estimated that only after Sullivan's meetings and the messages he brings from Israel will Biden decide whether to hold a phone conversation with Bennett.
Meanwhile, the White House and State Department have not denied that Biden's lack of response to Bennett is intentional. Instead, they responded that the one in charge of handling the Iranian issue with Israel is the National Security Adviser, and that his very visit is in itself ...
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You have no friends in this administration Bennett.
Netanyahu called Biden immediately after the 2020 election to congratulate him. Couldn’t have been quicker to abandon Trump and jump on board the Biden train.
But Democrats hate Jews. Democrats hate Israel. I guess the Israeli political class missed that memo.
And Bibi stabbed Trump in the back before the ink was even dry on the ele tion results .
What happened ?
Sure hope Israel has other allies in the wings.
They’ll need them.
That’s a good thing.
If you’re stuck in an elevator with a guy named Bubba who’s seven feet tall and has a tear-drop tattoo on his neck, and he’s scowling at you, you do your best to smile and make small talk. Your best bud didn’t get on the elevator, and now you’re stuck with him. What can’t be remedied must be endured.
It’s probably because Sleepy46 can’t figure out how to work a cell phone.
Maybe that’s a good thing so President Retard has less chance of screwing up?! 🤪
And the White House was bitching when Manchin wasn’t returning their phone calls....
You mean, Bibi’s congratulations somehow determined the outcome of the electoral college, contesting the results in Congress and recounts? Bennett knows coming in that Foe is a complete a@@hole, as he was as vice president. So did Bibi. Bibi had to put Israel first, and that is in keeping with Trump’s philosophy, that all national leaders have to put their countries first. So Trump of all people should understand.
You want to look for a back-stabber, try Barr.
Bibi jumped on that elevator the moment the doors opened. His good friend Trump was saying, “I have to tie my shoe. Hang on. I think I may be able to get in the next elevator, can you give me minute?”
Bib couldn’t wait.
Gotta be awake to answer the phone.
Biden embarrasses America yet again.
We don’t need antisemitic policies, Mr Biden. We will be not accept them. Get over it, your behavior is, frankly, disgusting
Netanyahu messed up.......but Trump is being made to pay. Read on.
Trump Knocked the Door Down; Let Someone Else Walk Through It
Townhall.com ^ | December 12, 2021 | Michael Brown
FR Posted on 12/12/2021, 6:19:03 AM by Kaslin
Donald Trump’s greatest accomplishment as president may not have been the policies he enacted or the justices he appointed. Instead, as important as those accomplishments were and are, it is possible that the most important thing he did as president was to say to the political world, “I will not play your games. I am the champion of the people, not a member of the good old boys club.”
But now that he has broken the mold, thrown out the old rule book, and forged a new path of leadership, it will be best in 2024 for another conservative leader with backbone and conviction to take the lead. Trump simply brings too much collateral damage with him (and, I remind you, I voted for him in 2016 and 2020).
What prompts me to write this now is the latest reminder of the negative baggage that came along with Trump, this time in the form of two interviews he conducted with Israeli journalist Barak Ravid for his new book, Trump’s Peace: The Abraham Accords and the Reshaping of the Middle East.
As reported in the Jerusalem Post, in April of this year, Trump explained to Ravid that he had not spoken to former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since Netanyahu called President Biden to congratulate him after his election.
As quoted in the book, Trump said, “I haven’t spoken with him since [he congratulated Joe Biden]. [Expletive] him.”
Trump also said to Ravid, “The first person that congratulated [Biden] was Bibi Netanyahu, the man that I did more for than any other person I dealt with. Bibi could have stayed quiet. He has made a terrible mistake.
“I liked Bibi. I still like Bibi. But I also like loyalty. The first person to congratulate Biden was Bibi. And not only did he congratulate him, he did it on tape.”
This is the same man who threw Vice President Mike Pence under the bus on January 6. Is it any surprise that he also ditched Bibi?
In reality, as noted by the Post, “Though Netanyahu was the first leader in the Middle East to pick up the phone to Washington, journalists were quick to note that Netanyahu was actually not one of the first people to give Biden a congratulatory call. In fact, he made the call nearly a month after Biden’s election, after calls had already come in from the leaders of France, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland.”
Yet, according to Ravid, during the two interviews Trump granted him, one lasting 90 minutes, he brought up Netanyahu’s call to Biden 5 times. Talk about letting something stick in your craw. Talk about not letting it go.
But are we really surprised? (Note also that this story has been all over the news for several days now, and I have seen no report from Trump denying the quotes.)
So, in Trump’s view, despite the presence of a new administration in the White House, Netanyahu should not have reached out to Biden. The election was stolen, plain and simple, and even though Israel would be dealing with Biden, not Trump, in the days to come, Israel had no business congratulating him.
Put another way, loyalty to Trump mattered more than the strength of Israel’s relationship with America.
Put another way still, Netanyahu should have said to the people of Israel, the ones who put him in office, “I’m really sorry, but I cannot congratulate the new president of the United States. If I do so, that will hurt my friend Donald Trump, who has done so much for our country. So, I’ll sacrifice our well-being in the present and not deal with our most important ally, since I don’t want to upset the man who is no longer in the White House.” Seriously?
But this is hardly an isolated incident. Trump continues to make acknowledgment of the allegedly stolen election a litmus test.
As he said at a rally in Iowa in October, “The single biggest issue — the issue that gets the most pull, the most respect, the biggest cheers — is talking about the election fraud of 2020’s presidential election.”
But this is not the primary political battle we need to be fighting now, even if you feel 100 percent sure the election was stolen.
The primary political battle is to get the right people in office, first in the midterms, then in 2024, all while continuing to push for election integrity on every front. (For the record, our electoral system seemed to work pretty well last month, didn’t it?)
And we certainly don’t need to reelect someone who will make loyalty to him, demonstrated by the public affirmation that the election was stolen, to cloud his judgment as president.
To be sure, Trump can still be a force for good in many ways. And he can help support worthy candidates, using the massive influence he still wields.
But if he remains the same man who trashed quite a few good people over the years, then we don’t need him back in the White House.
Surely there are others who can step forward and do a good job, especially when Trump has demonstrated that tens of millions of Americans want a strong leader who will not cave in once he or she gets to Washington.
Trump has set a bold, “tell it like it is” model that others can follow. But he is not the only man who can effectively lead America. And without question, it is possible to be a decisive, powerful leader without burning so many bridges, burying so many relationships, and alienating so many people along the way.
Yeah. Bibi has to play nice with whomever is in charge here. I don’t begrudge him that.
The thing that cracks me up is the majority of Americans who consider themselves “Jews” voted for Biden thus against Israel.
But, Netanyahu raced to congratulate Biden at sunrise after election day. Long before they even pretended it was successfully stolen.
IsraeloChumps... that’s what you get.
They don’t. Jews being Jews. They never learn loyalty and love. It’s the conservative Christian that is their supporters not the anti-Semitic democrats. Just like it’s not the democrats that love all their brothers (black brown ..l) the democrats hate/divide for power.
“they responded that the one in charge”
We would all like to know that answer.
Whatever the excuse. Israel is unprincipled and no president in US history has done more for them than Trump. And at the moment he just needed Bibi to STFU, Bibi took the cowards route and helped the coup gain momentum.
Obrador the President of Mexico showed way more backbone than Bibi.
fact.
“Bib couldn’t wait.”
Of course not. He represents a small country with few allies. He knew there was bad blood between him and Foe from the getgo, so he could not afford to wait. Him congratulating Foe did not change the results one iota. Balking at congratulating Foe on election night would have just made his sh!tty attitude towards Israel even sh!ttier.
Barr, publicly stating that an independent counsel to look into fraud was a terrible idea, most certainly did have real impact on the results. That was the very thing that might have saved the Republic if push came to shove, which it still might. But Barr shot it down on his way out the door.
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