As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political career is in peril due to his failure to prevent the October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel, the Israeli leader has been meeting with members of his Likud party to ensure continued support.
According to Israeli media, in these meetings, Netanyahu has sold himself as the only one who can prevent the creation of a Palestinian state and stand up to pressure from the Americans.
“I am the only one who will prevent a Palestinian state in Gaza and [the West Bank] after the war,” Netanyahu told Likud lawmakers, according to Israel’s Kan public broadcaster.
Netanyahu has come under fire from his political opponents over his previous strategy of helping prop up Hamas to prevent a Palestinian state. In a now-infamous quote from 2019, Netanyahu said anyone “who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas.”
Netanyahu continued, “This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank… It’s impossible to reach an agreement with them … Everyone knows this, but we control the height of the flames.”
President Biden has said he wants to see effort toward a two-state solution if Israel is successful in rooting out Hamas, but the US has placed no conditions on its military support for the war. Biden and his top aides have also said Israel can’t control Gaza after the war, an idea Netanyahu publicly rejected.
According to The Times of Israel, Netanyahu also told Likud lawmakers that the US didn’t want Israel to launch a ground invasion of Gaza and also didn’t want Israel to raid al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza. He reportedly boasted of defying the US’s wishes.
Two US officials speaking to the Times challenged Netanyahu’s narrative, saying the US didn’t actually oppose the Israeli military actions but just expressed concerns about the protection of civilians. The US has continued to provide full military support for Israel despite the massive civilian casualties.
According to Kan, Netanyahu told Likud backbenchers, referring to Knesset members who don’t hold prominent positions, that he has “known Biden for more than 40 years” and knows “how to speak to the American public.”
You may know how to speak to Biden because you are both bloodthirsty monsters, but you ain’t got nothing to say to the people.
Both are dead to me.
Oh yeah, Why would anyone with a conscience want to turn people who have lived for hundreds or thousands of years on the the land into stateless refugees and kill their children. The genociders have openly said they want to “Erase the Children”. This is the sort of people they are.
Hence that sick video of Israeli children singing of erasing Palestinians (and their children) from the earth. The Jimmy Dore Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67KXRi4gCSw
Bibi’s Youth
“People”.. Ha!
There you have it. Two state solution? Hah! The only thing Nets wants is to see all Palestinians dead (along with their children), and if that is not accomplished, then have them herded through the Rafah crossing and to the Sinai desert to live in tents, provided graciously by the UN, to die.
netanyahu and Israel are both doing to bite the dust or drag the US with them.
Reverse the power equation, Palestinians would be pushing Israelis into the sea, it’s a mess.
No would I… So would anyone if they were in the same position as the Palestinians.
There is no moral equivalence between the two.
I sincerely hope this torpedoes Biden’s reelection. It would restore a little of the cosmic balance in my eyes.
Biden’s two lovers, Bibi and Zelensky.
What the f*ck other Frankenstein will we have in the Oval Office? RFK, Jr. has already said that he will shill for Israel.
U S of A.
Money and blackmail rule
The Lobby’s stock and trade.
You can always vote for Cornel West but I think we ought to wrap our minds around a second Trump Presidency and what that might entail.
The good news is he’s turned his back on Bibi, his crooked son in law, and the Evangelicals.
The bad news is he’s still Trump so all bets are off.
Still, it will be fun to watch liberal heads explode.
“turned his back on Bibi, his crooked son in law, and the Evangelicals.” –Really? Please explain.
Actually I was wrong about that quote being recent. It was from ’16 regarding Evangelical support for Ted Cruz.
There is friction between the Trump camp and Evangelical support for DeSantis, who just paid out $90,000 to get their support.
A black southern Baptist preacher called them out as whores – which underscores an interesting trend in Trump gaining sympathy in the black community while he slips in the white.
He felt burned by Bibi for not backing him up post election, same with that wimp he pimped his daughter to. I don’t know what brought on his ire with the inbred, snake handling, hicks but he recreantly referred to the Evangelicals as ” pieces of shit ” – or so I heard.
Trump’s attitude toward everyone is that they are POS. Nothing new on that side of things. Trump’s behavior is entirely transactional with himself as the sole beneficiary, always. That’s his only point of view. He’d sell his mother if she were still around.
In his defense, she was a neglectful mother.
Any person encountering him needs to keep that in their minds. Everybody is useful, as long as they are useful. If not, well, so sorry Charlie. He is a transactional person, overlaid with narcissism and sociopath tendencies. In other words. Beware. You are spot on!
None of that means Trump will handle the Israeli/Palestinian situation any different than Biden or any different than when he was in office. He’s still bragging about the Abraham Accords and blaming Biden for funding the Hamas attacks.
“Sadly, American taxpayer dollars helped fund these attacks, which many reports are saying came from the Biden Administration. We brought so much peace to the Middle East through the Abraham Accords, only to see Biden whittle it away at a far more rapid pace than anyone thought possible. Here we go again.”
What did he say? “We brought so much peace in the Middle East”. I guess the increased drone attacks were peaceful moves. Also moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.
Sure it’s a lie but turnabout is fair play.
The Zionists love trump. They even gave him a reward last year for being Israel’s best friend. Trump also wants to solve the homeless problem by creating tent camps outside of cities and anyone who refuses will be put in jail.
The Zionists love trump.
The Zionists suck up to Trump – there’s a difference.
Nope. He needs the Zionists on his side so as to keep in the good graces of AIPAC.
Not a great year to have them in your corner. I think Trump will keep them at arms length.
Let Tulsi service them.
No there isn’t. If elected, he would give the green light to kill every last Palestinian, without a qualm. He would do exactly what Israel wanted without a question, and he would expand the war into Lebanon and elsewhere, just like any president has allowed Israel to do what they wanted. If you can’t see that, I don’t know what to say
I can’t see into the future anymore than you but I do remember 4 years under Trump without any new wars or the shit shows like the ones we’re forced to look at on a routine basis.
I believe Trump believes he’s been burned by the Zios and he’s the type to hold a grudge – unlike the sycophant Biden.
Damn man, it was 4 years of shit shows. He never stopped killing people, whether by airstrikes, drones or sanctions. And he even made killing easier by lessening the rules of engagement with the airstrikes and drones.
The bug out of Afghanistan..
Grasping war from the jaws of peace in Ukraine..
Signing US on as vocal accomplices to a new holocaust..
Compared to Genocide Joe, Trump is a piker.
We would have had to see how the last 3 years would have played out to know what the difference between the two would be. Trump just saying that the Ukraine war wouldn’t have happened, and the Hamas attack wouldn’t have happened if he were in office isn’t convincing enough for me. And we’re out of Afghanistan regardless of how Biden botched the withdrawal. And again, we’d have had to have seen how Trump would have handled it and not just take his word that it would have been any different. I know the suicide bombing would have had Trump looking for revenge just like Biden did when he wasted those 10 innocents. But when it comes to kissing Israel’s ass everyone seemed like a “piker” compared to Trump’s 4 years in office. I see absolutely no reason to think that will be different if he’s reelected.
You should have heard Trump’s speech at the Republican Jewish Coalition Conference in Las Vegas two months ago. Who was sucking up to who?
Pandering to a voting block isn’t the same thing as being having neocons in his inner circle.
Once bitten, twice shy.
The Zionists love trump. They even gave him a reward last year for being Israel’s best friend. Trump also wants to solve the homeless problem by creating tent camps outside of cities and anyone who refuses will be put in jail.
” we ought to wrap our minds around a second Trump presidency…”
no
‘Last month, Trump sparked fierce backlash when he railed against US Jews, telling them to “get their act together” and accusing them of not being appreciative enough of his support for Israel, while claiming he was so popular among Israelis that he could “easily be” elected prime minister.’
In a statement posted to his social media platform Truth Social, Trump argued that “No President has done more for Israel,” and wondered why “our wonderful Evangelicals are far more appreciative of this than the people of the Jewish faith, especially those living in the US.”
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.timesofisrael.com/trump-censures-us-jews-who-are-not-doing-the-right-thing-for-israel-in-zoa-speech/amp/
Trump will do the same as Biden, maybe worse.
I recently discovered someone I think might be good and credible. Jeffrey Sachs is saying a lot of the right things these days.
He’d be good, but I haven’t seen anywhere that he would run.
True. But perhaps he could be convinced.
And if this torpedoes Biden’s reelection what do we wind up with for President? Harris, Haley, Trump?
Hi Dave, Sorry. I found a typo. Well, not technically a typo, but here’s what he really wanted to say: ““I am the only one who will (kill enough Palestinian children.)”
Which is a way of saying the same thing. No Palestinian children = No Palestinians in the future to populate a state.
Israel is so nice. They describe what they’re doing, which exactly meets the definition of “genocide.” But for some reason they don’t like to label what they’re doing as “genocide.” …Why? …They’re nice but not too nice?
Two US officials speaking to the Times challenged Netanyahu’s narrative, saying the US didn’t actually oppose the Israeli military actions but just expressed concerns about the protection of civilians. The US has continued to provide full military support for Israel despite the massive civilian casualties.
Yes, how dare Netanyahu say that they don’t approve of his onslaught on Gaza. Never mind the blowhard said he can prevent a Palestinian state and he has the US in his back pocket. That’ s fine.
That criminal politician thinks he is Yahweh personified, while boasting that he knows how to control Americans!
He seems more to represent Satan than Yahweh.
I have long wondered if Netanyahu might be the Anti-Christ.
Netanyahu will be gone when this war is over with, whenever that is.
At the rate we are letting Israel kill and herd the Palestinians, I would say by Pesach next year. Seriously.
Netanyahu is a War Criminal, a Terrorist and has NO right to dictate to the Palestinians where they will live. I feel sad for the Israeli People who want a two State solution, who want Peace, who will suffer if Netanyahu is not arrested and his MADNESS is not stopped.
Don’t be fooled by what Genocide Joe is saying; he has Psycho’ Killer
Nutandyahoo’s back all the way.
bibi needs to be in prison for crimes against humanity
Shades of Donald Trump, who said, “I, alone, can fix it.” Carol Leonnig and Philip Rucker wrote a book about Trump making that the title.
What does the US expect? Defying the nation that funds them has never had any consequences.
Bibi can defy, get funding and still get a standing ovation in congress…. plus now if you are in congress and you don’t stand and clap you are an antiSemite.
Ukraine lost considerable military support with very little notice when Biden decided that Israel should have unfettered access to scarce weapons and ammunition.
Israel is possibly more dependent on the US than Ukraine. They should be prepared to suffer a similar fate if US brinkmanship starts a new firefight somewhere (South China Sea, Taiwan Straight, North Korea, etc.)
1956: The only time the USA displayed respect for the United Nations Charter was Presidnt Dwight Eisenhower ordered Israel to withdraw from Egypt’s Sinai following the Israeli, British, and French attack on Egypt.
All the tensions in the Middle East is Israel’s not cooperation with United Nations Security Council Resolutions. The USA blocked something like 53 UN Security Council resoluion against Israel.
Haradim is what the Likud should really be worried about
https://m.jpost.com/opinion/haredim-not-arabs-or-iran-are-the-biggest-threat-to-israel-opinion-672968
It’s good to see that Netanyahu has stated his intentions because he has removed any ambiguity. I still hold out hope that he will be removed and sent to prison by Israeli Citizens.
Biden seems to be going out of his way to enable Netanyahu to commit war crimes in Gaza. Perhaps he too will be removed and sent to prison by US Citizens. (Wouldn’t that be a kick?)
Neither man seems to have a clue that they are on the wrong side of history. When the US began producing more oil than we consume, the game changed. We did it, in part, to eliminate our dependence on foreign oil. Having done that, all of the oil producing countries in the Middle East were forced to start looking for new markets. They found them. They are free to bite the hand that once fed them. They have learned to not overreact. And they know that US energy independence will eventually curtail US interference in their affairs… because the incentives have been significantly weakened.