While Biden’s disdain for Netanyahu’s coalition government is nothing new, Israel’s new willingness to transparently push back on the US administration is a welcome, if uncomfortable development.
Attempts to find “technocratic” leaders in Gaza, unaffiliated with Hamas or other terrorist entities, are doomed to fail.
"It's important for us to step in and make sure that Israel has the ability to [defeat Hamas], in the best interest of Israel, the Palestinian people, the region, and the free world."
The Knesset Speaker's trip to the United States comes amongst division over the Israel-Gaza conflict, which remains at the forefront.
The US is the only great power we can count on – in every aspect of our national security.
Positions on aid did not diverge sharply along party lines, though Republicans were slightly more supportive.
The Israel-US relationship is too important for national security to be used for political advantage.
If one were to judge by Wednesday’s headlines of a speech Biden gave a day earlier at a campaign event hosted by a former president of AIPAC, one might very well think so.
Biden, speaking at a White House reception for the Jewish Hanukkah festival, recalled his decades-long relationship with Netanyahu.
The government needs to stop playing politics and instead outline a vision for the day after in Gaza.