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No Call to Bibi: Biden Has Yet to Congratulate Newly Elected Israeli Leader Netanyahu
Washington Free Beacon ^ | 11/04/2022 | Adam Kredo

Posted on 11/04/2022 8:14:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

The Biden administration will not say when the president plans on calling newly elected Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to congratulate him on his victory, drawing accusations the U.S. administration is trying to isolate the conservative Jewish leader before he even takes office.

Asked on Thursday afternoon if President Joe Biden has any plans to phone Netanyahu following his victory this week in the Israeli elections, a White House spokesman told the Washington Free Beacon, "We don’t have any call to preview at this point."

The Israeli media reported on Thursday that Biden is expected to call Netanyahu some time over the weekend, citing the U.S. president’s packed schedule campaigning around America’s midterm elections. But the White House would not confirm these reports when asked by the Free Beacon.

Biden called Brazil’s newly elected far-left president-elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, on Monday, just a day after that country’s elections. This discrepancy is fueling accusations the Biden administration is taking a chilly approach to its diplomacy with Netanyahu, who made history by being elected as Israel’s prime minister for the third time.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told the Free Beacon that the president's delay in calling Netanyahu "is not an accident."

"President Biden rushed to call Lula, a committed anti-American Chavista, but is finding every possible excuse not to call the next Prime Minister of Israel. That is not an accident," Cruz said. "Biden has spent his entire administration undermining America's allies and boosting America's enemies. The next Republican Congress is going to leverage aggressive oversight and legislation to reverse that recklessness."

This is not the first time Biden has been accused of dissing Netanyahu. It took Biden nearly a month to call Netanyahu upon taking office in 2021, fueling speculation Biden was trying to create some distance with Israel after four years of warm relations under former president Donald Trump. When outgoing Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett was elected, it took Biden just two hours to call and congratulate him.

Omri Ceren, a national security adviser for Cruz, said reports that Biden is too busy campaigning to call Netanyahu are "nonsense."

"Biden found time call [sic] Lula the day after his election—and that was on Monday so it's not like Biden wasn't midterm campaigning," Ceren wrote on Twitter. "Also if he calls this weekend, it will still be before the midterms. Why can't this [administration] just admit what their foreign policy is?"

On Wednesday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declined to comment on Netanyahu's win, even as it became clear he was poised to emerge victorious in the elections. "It is too early to speculate, as you know, on the exact composition of the next governing coalition until all the votes are counted."

Netanyahu’s conservative coalition is set to take over Israel’s government once the results are formally certified on Nov. 9. The Biden administration found a willing partner in Israel's outgoing prime minister Yair Lapid, whose liberal government more closely aligned with the Democratic administration and its effort to funnel millions of dollars to the Palestinian government.

Conflict with the Biden administration is much more likely under Netanyahu’s leadership, particularly in light of the U.S. government’s efforts to reopen diplomacy with the Palestinian government even as it incites attacks against Israel and pays convicted terrorists and their families’ stipends.

Netanyahu enjoyed close relations with former president Donald Trump and helped his administration take the historic step of recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s undivided capital city. The Trump-Netanyahu alliance also brokered a historic set of peace agreements between Israel and its former Arab foes in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. The Biden administration, upon taking office, initially had a policy of not referring to these peace agreements by their formal name, the Abraham Accords, the Free Beacon reported at the time.



TOPICS: Egypt; Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: biden; brazil; congratulations; demagogicparty; egypt; iran; iraq; israel; lebanon; lula; netanyahu; russia; syria; waronterror; yairlapid; yemen
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1 posted on 11/04/2022 8:14:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The Neocons hate Bibi almost as much as they hate Putin, and that’s because they both their country first.


2 posted on 11/04/2022 8:16:36 PM PDT by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Estonia: 35 degrees)
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To: SeekAndFind

Biden is a low life loser, and that is my nice words for him.


3 posted on 11/04/2022 8:19:30 PM PDT by caver
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But Bibi couldn’t wait to slobber over Biden when he stole the election. Where’s the love, Joe?


4 posted on 11/04/2022 8:19:34 PM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: SeekAndFind
The creeps in charge at the White House takes their orders from the...


5 posted on 11/04/2022 8:19:38 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind
In his defense, Biden did try to call. But he couldn’t get a good cell connection on his shoe phone.....


6 posted on 11/04/2022 8:21:27 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: SeekAndFind

In all fairness, Joe doesn’t know how to use a smartphone.


7 posted on 11/04/2022 8:21:37 PM PDT by simpson96
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To: caver
Biden is a low life loser, and that is my nice words for him.

Yep. Good call.

8 posted on 11/04/2022 8:22:57 PM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. Father of USAF pilot. USAF aviation runs in the family )
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To: SeekAndFind

He probably thinks Golda Meir is the PM. People with dementia tend to go back in time in their minds.


9 posted on 11/04/2022 8:29:39 PM PDT by susannah59 ( )
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To: SeekAndFind

Joe Biden thinks ju jitsu is a town in Israel.


10 posted on 11/04/2022 8:34:40 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. )
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To: susannah59

It looks like the Israelis have very cognizantly decided to ‘go back in time’...


11 posted on 11/04/2022 8:35:49 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Now, now. It could be that no one has told him yet that Netanyahu won and what to say about it. Give the short bus time time to get to the school.


12 posted on 11/04/2022 8:39:33 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Obozo told his WH criminal cabal to not tell Jobama to call Netanyahu


13 posted on 11/04/2022 8:43:44 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: SeekAndFind

This is because the Biden administration and State Dept are concerned that Netanyahu is forming a coalition government with an overtly racist party and this serves as a warning that if he does, relations will suffer.


14 posted on 11/04/2022 8:44:08 PM PDT by jimwatx
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To: SeekAndFind

LOL... Bibi is a putz. He raced to congratulate Biden. he was the first of all world leaders to call him when the election steal was only 3 hours old.

Now the putz can see how appreciated his stab in Trump’s back was by Biden.


15 posted on 11/04/2022 8:49:38 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: simpson96
Wadda ya call that contrary evidence in post #6?

That right there is a genuine Maxwell Smart Phone!

16 posted on 11/04/2022 8:56:02 PM PDT by G Larry ( When Leftists say "Population Control" it means Killing Billions, not "limiting growth".)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bomb, Bibi, Bomb!
Iran awaits...


17 posted on 11/04/2022 9:13:44 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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To: BobL

#PedoHitler doesn’t like Jews.


18 posted on 11/04/2022 9:13:53 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: SeekAndFind

Probably still coming down from the high he got by talking with that weird trans person


20 posted on 11/04/2022 11:22:23 PM PDT by roving ( Pronouns- libs/suk)
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