Joe Biden
The U.S. president mentioned Gaza and anti-Muslim attacks stateside often in his Arab American Heritage Month proclamation.
“Hamas can scream these numbers all they want, but it makes them no truer than if they were to repeatedly scream the earth was flat,” the human rights attorney Arsen Ostrovsky told JNS.
“We will work together to upgrade the humanitarian aid to Gaza and to bring the hostages back home,” the Israeli president said.
An Israeli government official told JNS that the Biden administration contacted Jerusalem to reschedule.
The prominent U.S. lawyer and commentator is keeping an “open mind” due to the Biden administration’s Israel policies.
The national security minister told The New York Times that the US president is “enormously mistaken” to pressure Israel over its military campaign against Hamas.
Washington received written assurances from Jerusalem that the army is acting in compliance with a Feb. 8 presidential memo.
“People that were in other administrations with Biden saw him as weak, ineffective, Hamas would have never done that attack if I were there.”
One sign read: “In November, we will remember.”
“We always did what was necessary for our safety, and we will do so this time as well,” the premier said in an address to Israeli citizens.
During a telephone conversation between the two leaders, Netanyahu reportedly aired grievances about Democratic Sen. Schumer’s call for early Israeli elections.
The PM also said the IDF must control the Gaza-Egypt border and that work is being done on an Israeli-controlled crossing to replace the one from Sinai.
