Former Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Herzog said in an interview that aired on Israeli TV this week that President Biden never pressured Israel to reach a ceasefire in Gaza.
“God did the State of Israel a favor that Biden was the president during this period, because it could have been much worse,” Herzog told Israel’s Channel 13.
“We fought [in Gaza] for over a year, and the administration never came to us and said, ‘ceasefire now.’ It never did. And that’s not to be taken for granted,” Herzog added.
Herzog’s comments contradict claims by President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’s allies that they were “tirelessly working” for a Gaza ceasefire. When a truce deal was reached in January, the incoming Trump administration’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, was seen as the factor that led to the deal, although Israel has since completely violated the agreement with President Trump’s support.
Channel 13 interviewed several former Biden administration officials about Biden’s handling of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. Former US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides said that Biden backed Israel all the way despite enormous political pressure.
“This was the most significant political peril of Joe Biden’s political career. The easiest thing for Joe Biden… to do if he was worried about the votes in Michigan, is to basically get a little soft. He refused to do it,” Nides said.
Despite Biden’s commitment, Republicans in the US and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were critical, claiming he wasn’t doing enough to support Israel.
“There was an enormous pressure on [Biden] inside the White House to change his position. So, when I hear comments about [how] he wasn’t good enough, or he didn’t have Israel’s back, am I disgusted by it? 100%. Is it true? 100% no,” Nides added.
The Biden officials said they were frustrated with Netanyahu for attacking the administration for withholding a significant number of weapons, which wasn’t the case. A single shipment of 2,000-pound bombs that the administration was withholding was set to be released in June 2024, but it remained frozen due to Netanyahu’s accusations.
“Yes, we had a disagreement over one shipment, [but] to go out and attack us that way was particularly infuriating,” Ilan Goldenberg, a senior national security aide for the administration, told Channel 13.
Biden often identified himself as a Zionist and a staunch supporter of Israel. Because of that, Nides said the accusations that he wasn’t providing enough support for Israel really “aggravates Biden in a way where you don’t want to be around him when that happens.”
They are all murderous lying sociopaths. But we knew that.
Michael Herzog said 'God did Israel a favor' by making Biden president. ROTFL! Michael Herzog is a delusional Zionist.
Herzog has been sued by human rights activists over his role in a 2002 attack on Gaza. Herzog was a senior advisor in Israel’s defense ministry, which was central to the planning of “targeted assassinations” carried out at that time. Herzog was chief of staff to Ehud Barak, then Israel’s defense minister, during Operation Cast Lead, which killed 1417 people. Herzog was also indicted for war crimes in a case brought under Spain’s law on universal jurisdiction.
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. No wonder that Zionists admire an imaginary deity.
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Wildfires rage near Jerusalem, major road closed, communities evacuated
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-wildfires-force-evacuations-road-closures-memorial-day-2025-04-30/
Conditions Are Getting Worse' | Thousands of Israelis Evacuate as Massive Wildfire Spreads Near Jerusalem-Tel Aviv Highway
Israel's fire chief warns wildfires will continue for another day ■ Major Jerusalem hospital urges public to come only in urgent cases ■ Most Independence Day events canceled for Wednesday ■ Israel expects aid from Italy, Croatia, Spain, Romania, and Ukraine
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-04-30/ty-article/.premium/fire-erupts-in-jerusalem-area-forcing-communities-to-evacuate/00000196-8659-d22a-a3de-b67d49d40000
The child killing terrorist settler-colony of "Israel" attacked Iran's Bandar Abbas port and openly gloated over the death and destruction they caused. In their hubris, they think they are invulnerable to retribution. The days of the Zionists are numbered.
The child killing terrorist settler-colony of "Israel" attacked Iran's Bandar Abbas port and openly gloated over the death and destruction they caused. In their hubris, they think they are invulnerable to retribution. The days of the Zionists are numbered.
of course the US under Biden repeatedly vetoed UN calls for an immediate ceasefire
Why would he? After all he is "Genocide Joe."
So exactly what was Blinken doing the whole time?
Apr 29, 2025 Bolivia ambassador says concerned over Israel’s ‘colonialism and genocidal actions’
In an interview with Middle East Eye on Tuesday, Bolivian ambassador to the Netherlands, Roberto Calzadilla Sarmiento, says that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) must reaffirm the obligations of Israel as an occupying power in Palestine.
https://youtu.be/hd9HMBWdujs?si=B3x6sea9XazDTn09
Biden would deny it but it's butterscotch pudding day.