In the first visit in the last two decades since the middle eastern stress escalated, President Joe Biden spoke to Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu about Israel’s reaction to last week’s missile strike by Iran. The White House said the phone lasted for 30 days and the talk was clear, fair and effective. ” The US and the Jewish authorities have had discussions since last week since after the Iran harm. Those conversations continued with the leader and the perfect chancellor,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.
” We’re going to continue to have those conversations with Israel on how they’re going to listen,” she said.
The discussion on a protected line, which also included Vice President Kamala Harris, began soon after 10:30 am.
The visit comes amid hostilities between Biden and Netanyahu and was their first since August 21, a seven-week space during which Israel also launched an offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Biden has cautioned Israel against attempting to pin Iran’s nuclear program and is also against a hit on the country’s oil installations, which would send oil prices spiking less than a fortnight before the US presidential election.
A new publication by former journalist Bob Woodward details the growing split, with Biden telling Netanyahu in July that” the notion of Israel around the world extremely is that you’re a renegade state, a renegade actor,” The New York Times reported.
White House officials, worried after they were blindsided by a series of Jewish strikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon, demanded the dialogue Wednesday and insisted that it take place before Israel conducted a attack. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was reported to be “angry beyond terms,” one administration official said, because the absence of clear advance notice about the problems in Lebanon put the lives of Americans in the Middle East at risk.
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