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The big winter between Biden and Netanyahu: "The American president has lost his patience"

2024-01-18 19:53:52Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
The big winter between Biden and Netanyahu: "The American president has
Biden and Netanyahu

The Israeli prime minister ignores the pressures on the war and the post-war. The pair have not spoken for three weeks.

"This conversation ends here," and has not been resumed for three weeks.

Joe and Bibi talked one day yes and one day no, the American president was still convinced that on the other end of the phone and across the ocean, the Israeli prime minister was listening.

Now the patience has run out with those last words because "Netanyahu showed us the middle finger at every important step", explains the Democratic Senator, Chris Van Hollen, for the digital newspaper "Axios". It is no use hoping that he will use it to call the White House number and follow the suggestions – now the demands – of the leader who landed in Tel Aviv eleven days after the October 7 massacre by Hamas terrorists and has show unconditional support to Israel in the military response.

Perhaps too much, domestic commentators and those in Washington speculate. The empathy and help brought by the president moved and touched Israelis, while the ruling far-right coalition seemed paralyzed by shock, disappearing from the television screens where it had spoken during ten months of protests against the anti-democratic justice plan.

Thus, public love, expressed with the aspiration "it would be nice if Joe was prime minister", has spoiled the pride of the longest serving prime minister in the country's history. He is still convinced - despite his and his Likud's collapse in the polls - that he can secure a seventh term at the expense of the most important international relations for the Jewish state. "Netanyahu is deliberately seeking conflict with the Biden administration," writes Alon Pinkas, who was also a diplomatic adviser to Ehud Barak and Shimon Peres. According to him, this challenge will become his slogan during the election campaign: only I can resist the American pressure".

What these pressures are is repeated by Antony Blinken, the Secretary of State, every time they put the microphone in front of him, the last yesterday from the stage of the Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, after describing the scenes of destruction and death in Gaza. "The solution is a Palestinian nation, with a government that works and gives the people what they need. It is also a necessity for Israel's security." The head of US diplomacy has yet to get the Netanyahu government to transfer tens of millions of dollars in taxes collected by the Israelis on behalf of the West Bank Authority to President Abu Mazen.

The rift over managing the war — limiting the number of civilian casualties — and then — returning the Strip to Raì's control in Ramallah — is becoming so wide that Michael Oren, former ambassador to Washington and former right-wing lawmaker, commented for the "Associated Press" agency: The interests of the two countries are not always the same. "In the end there is a limit and if Biden orders us to stop, we will continue." As Netanyahu reiterated yesterday: The conflict does not stop until the objectives of eliminating Hamas and freeing the hostages are achieved.

Bibi, who studied in Boston, considers himself a great maneuverer in the corridors of Congress, where he spoke three times before the plenary session, a record shared only by Winston Churchill. Critics, however, claim that he knows the Republican plotting rooms better than his political adviser Ron Dermer, who grew up in the United States, his father and brother being mayors of Miami. Both are convinced that American leaders (Barack Obama above all) – writes director David Remnick in the New Yorker – tend to be misled by the intentions of the Palestinians, of Hezbollah and most importantly of Iran.

After the November vote, his friend Donald may return to the White House, who, despite his volatile mood, has always supported Netanyahu. Biden's obstruction would also serve this purpose: waiting for Trump's invitation to the White House. / Davide Frattini – Corriere della Sera correspondent in Jerusalem


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