Biden's Patience with Netanyahu 'Running Out'

The Israeli prime minister is able to ignore the US president's requests, despite being highly dependent on US funding, weapons, and diplomatic cover to wage a genocidal war in Gaza

President Biden and other senior US officials are "running out" of patience with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who continues to ignore US requests regarding the ongoing war in Gaza, Axios reported on 15 January.

"The situation sucks and we are stuck. The president's patience is running out," one US official told Axios.

"At every juncture, Netanyahu has given Biden the finger," US Senator Chris Van Hollen, who has been in close contact with US officials about the war, told Axios. "They are pleading with the Netanyahu coalition, but getting slapped in the face over and over again."

Since the beginning of Israel's war on Gaza over 100 days ago, President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have given Israel unlimited support in the form of weapons and diplomatic cover despite clear evidence Israel is engaging in genocide.

But according to four US officials with direct knowledge of the issue, US officials are increasingly upset that Netanyahu has ignored requests to transfer tax revenue to the Palestinian Authority (PA), allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, scale back military operations to stop killing so many Palestinian civilians, and allow the PA to govern Gaza following the end of the war.

According to Axios, Biden and Netanyahu have not spoken in almost a month, after previously speaking several times a week. During their last conversation on 23 December, Netanyahu refused a request to transfer PA tax revenue. In response, Biden said, "This conversation is over," and hung up the phone.

For now, Netanyahu appears "more willing to listen" to the ultranationalist ministers in his government — namely Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich — than to "what the president of the United States says," Senato Van Hollen told Axios.

Despite being highly dependent on US weapons and funding to wage war on Gaza, Israeli leaders rarely take US requests into consideration. This suggests they have some form of leverage over US leaders .[Related? 1/3 — Epstein, Mossad - Blackmail Honeypot Operation? - Excerpt From The Human Trafficking Circus in The Room, Epstein Is Just the Elephant...]

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🔗Source: The Cradle

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