On video: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a speech to the AIPAC conference 03.12.24/Official website
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will talk on the phone today (Monday) with the President of the United States Joe Biden, according to two sources.
why is it important:
This will be the first conversation between Biden and Netanyahu since February 15 and it is taking place against the background of the acute tensions between the leaders and the speech of the Democratic majority leader in the Senate Chuck Schumer.
First conversation between the two leaders since February 15.
Biden and Netanyahu/image processing, Reuters, Jonathan Zindel/Flash 90
What they say:
Netanyahu said in a meeting with senior officials of the pro-Israeli lobby IPAK: "The picture that has been shown in the last few days and weeks in the United States is completely different from the one I described.
This is not unity among the people.
Get into any taxi or mall, walk down the street and talk to the people, the vast majority will tell you that they support what I just said - the goals set by the government.
"This is not what is described to you, they describe a detached prime minister with some extreme fringe groups and they are the ones who dictate the policy - this is not true, I would say a deliberate lie. They know it is not true, and this lie is being spread and it is wrong.
"There is unity in the people and an agreement that we need to achieve victory as I described it. It is within reach and we are going to do it, I told this to the president and the people I spoke with. They keep saying that local politics are getting in our way. They may be right, but on which side of the ocean?"
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