Benjamin Netanyahu
“What the Israelis must do is cover their ears and not let the United States dictate what they can and can’t do militarily against Hamas,” said Danielle Pletka of the American Enterprise Institute.
“The world sees [your] support in the moral clarity that you have demonstrated from the moment that Israel was attacked,” the premier told the president in Tel Aviv.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Joe Biden for being the first U.S. president to visit Israel during a war.
Biden will “make it clear that we continue to want to see this conflict not widen, not expand, not deepen,” said a U.S. official.
“The entire world should know: It was barbaric terrorists in Gaza that attacked the hospital in Gaza and not the IDF,” said the Israeli prime minister.
Israel’s premier met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Tel Aviv amid a string of visits by world leaders.
It was the first phone call between the two leaders since the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre of more than 1,400 Israelis.
The prime minister “expressly pledged that one of the goals of the war is to return our abductees home,” said an attendee.
“The unity among us sends a clear message to the nation, the enemy and the world,” Netanyahu said.
U.S. President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other officials appear to be shifting their tone somewhat.
The IDF is preparing to expand the offensive in the Gaza Strip “from the air, sea and land.”
