Even the first anniversary of , Hamas‘s Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel was n’t an occasion for President Joe Biden to melt ties with Israeli Prime Minister , Benjamin Netanyahu.
Biden called Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Monday, but no Netanyahu.
In support of the selection, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said to reporters on Monday,” What you saw the senator do is respect and celebrate lives that were lost.” The senator called President Herzog because he thought it was appropriate to call the president to offer his sympathies. It was a significant and important discussion, and so that’s what they spoke on. It was intended to honor this extremely depressing day.
Jean-Pierre pointed out that there would be a call between the two” shortly” as the Netanyahu critics pointed to the prime minister for stalling a possible Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal and Biden’s criticism of the president’s claim that the president no longer has the political power to influence Netanyahu or conflict.
” They have a decadeslong marriage, and in those meetings that they do have, it’s pretty honest, it’s really coy, and that will continue”, she said. ” We think the best chance of bringing these victims home is through a peace agreement,” we said. That’s what the president is directing his staff to continue to work on, and that’s going to get our area of focus.
The media director continued, noting that Biden and Netanyahu have” spoken more than a few times in the past year, and they have seen each other.”
” The president’s team has been in effect regularly, regularly, almost daily, with the Jewish authorities”, she said. ” So we’ve been in close contact and nearby email, and that continues”.
Last week, during Biden’s first appearance in the White House briefing room, the president urged Netanyahu to “remember” that” no administration has helped Israel more than]his ]” . ,
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Biden said,” I am aware that the plan I put up received the support of the United Nations Security Council and the vast majority of our friends around the world as a way to put an end to this.” ” The Israelis have every right to respond to the violent attacks against them by somebody from Hezbollah to the Houthis,” according to the statement. However, they must be very little more cautious when dealing with human deaths.
Netanyahu described being attacked from seven different sides as Israelis held memorial service and presentations all over the country one month after Oct. 7. At the White House, Biden participated in a yahrzeit lamp lighting ceremony. In honor of the patients, Vice President Kamala Harris and subsequent man Doug Emhoff, who is Hebrew, planted a plum monument trees on the grounds of her home at the U.S. Naval Observatory.