In the video: Biden met with Netanyahu: "We will discuss the difficult issues - such as preserving democratic values"
The website "Politico" this evening published a claim according to which President Biden called Benjamin Netanyahu in inner circles "a bad guy in the wild".
In a political column, Jonathan Martin writes "Young Democrats see the United States' support for Netanyahu's war as unacceptable, and it could cost the president millions of liberal votes."
About the president himself, he says: "Like everyone in the administration, and like every democrat with a pulse, he reveals that he feels deep suspicion towards Netanyahu."
According to Martin, he said the phrase "bad fucking guy" "according to people who talked to the president".
However, he notes, the president's spokesman, Andrew Bates, denied the allegations, saying "he didn't say, and he wouldn't do it."
According to Bates, the two have "relationships dating back decades of respect, on the private and public level."
Biden-Netanyahu meeting in New York/Government Press Office, Avi Ohion
According to the author of the article, Biden's main concern is that Netanyahu seeks to drag the United States into an all-out war in the Middle East, which will ensure the flow of American weapons and soldiers and that in the process, the pressure on Netanyahu to end the war in Gaza will dissipate, along with the internal political pressures on the Prime Minister.
According to the commentary, the president will not admit the words publicly, but he is beginning to show signs that he is hearing the complaints of the pro-Palestinian activists.
Examples of this are the presidential order he issued against settlers who committed violent acts against Palestinians, and his statement that he prays for the safety of "those who are held hostage under the bombs, and those who have been displaced from their homes."
The author of the article quotes other Democratic politicians, staunch supporters of Israel, according to him, who told him that there is broad agreement in the party that Israel should stop the war in Gaza immediately, and that from the Democratic Party's point of view this is a "political disaster".
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