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The USA is sending the State of Israel $13 billion in military aid. Nevertheless, Joe Biden does not get along well with a Netanyahu cabinet member.
Washington, DC/Tel Aviv – This last Wednesday (April 24) by US President Joe Biden The signed aid package worth around 95 billion US dollars does not only come from Kiev (61 billion dollars). Ukraine war as well as Taiwan (9 billion dollars), but also in parts to the suffering population in the country Gaza Strip ($8 billion) and Israel ($13 billion). But despite the important support in the ongoing War in Israel and given Iran's recent attacks, not all members of Benjamin Netanyahu's government are thrilled.
Despite billions in US aid: Israeli minister promotes Trump
Israel's Minister for Diaspora Affairs, Amichai Chikli, criticized the broadcaster in a radio interview Kan Radio on the day the aid package was approved: “The USA is not showing strength under Biden’s leadership and is harming Israel and other countries. At the beginning of the war he said 'Don't do it' – both to the Hezbollah as well as towards Iran. We saw the result.”
Chikli then made his aversion to Biden, despite his support for Israel, also with a view to the upcoming events US presidential election clearly: “If I were an American citizen with the right to vote, I would vote for Donald Trump and the Republicans vote.”
Born: | September 12, 1981 in Jerusalem |
Political office: | Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Minister of Social Equality |
Political party: | Likud |
Middle East war: Chikli interview draws attention
Like the online portal mediaite.com reported, Chikli's interview had attracted the attention of, among others, the US television presenter (MSNBC) Chris Hayes.
On his TV show All inwhich he has moderated since 2013, noted that the Israeli politician's statements might explain “why Republicans are suddenly so interested in attacking student protests against the war instead of asking all the questions that have arisen during this conflict from day one.” “We were open to Hamas’s atrocities.”
Hayes went on to ask: “With the specter of even greater mass destruction looming, how will the people of Gaza find anything remotely habitable in their future?”
Israeli criticism of Biden: Difficult relationship with Democrats is the cause?
One reason for Amichai Chikli's statements could be the now difficult and broken relationship between the two Democrats and Netanyahu lie. Both Chikli and his head of government belong to the right-wing Likud party.
In the past few weeks and months, the distrustful relationship between the Biden government and the Israeli rulers has been partially masked in view of the terrorist attacks on Israel, but both sides are still far from a normalized relationship.
Amichai Chikli recently disinvited from the German-Israeli conference
Meanwhile, Amichai Chikli has caused a stir in the past. He was recently disinvited from the German-Israeli conference in Berlin Taz reported at the beginning of February.
Chikli is known for homophobic views, wrote the Berlin newspaperrecently met with Swedish right-wing radicals and also took part in a settlers' conference in Jerusalem that has taken up the cause of repopulating the Gaza Strip. (chnnn)
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