During their time in office, the US president and Israel’s prime minister had a difficult relationship. Journalist Bob Woodward shows what it was like in his new book “War”.
Washington, DC/Tel-Aviv – Three high-profile books about the former US president and current presidential candidate republican, Donald Trumpthe American journalist Bob Woodward has already published. His latest book, “War,” will be published on October 15th – exactly three weeks before US election on November 5th.
In it, the ex-co-editor of the Washington Post Trump’s relationship with his opponents on the side of the Democrats – primarily the president who is still in office Joe Biden and presidential candidate Kamala Harris – the main focus of his efforts.
In essence, Woodward is asking how their long-term political competition, in the context of multiple international crises in recent years, was able to emerge as what it is today. Based on the Covid-19 pandemic, about the Ukraine war to the Middle East conflict, Woodward devotes his book to the significant geopolitical events of the last few years. In doing so, he examines the relationships between leading US politicians as well as their relationships with other political heavyweights on the international stage – and this is precisely what has now caused a stir again.
Bob Woodward reveals Joe Biden’s strained relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu in new book
Like the Israeli online newspaper Times of Israel reported, Woodward also addresses US President Biden’s strained relationship with Israel’s prime minister in “War.” Benjamin Netanyahu to the bottom. The relationship between both heads of state was became increasingly tense in the spring of 2024, as did the US news channel CNN reports, which has an advance copy of Woodward’s book.
In “War,” Woodward also addresses a telephone conversation between Biden and Netanyahu that is said to have taken place in April 2024. At that time, an Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip was already on the cards, which Netanyahu finally implemented on May 7 with the advance of Israeli ground troops into the city of Rafah on the Gaza Strip’s western border with neighboring Egypt.
As the Times of Israel starting from CNNAccording to information relating to Woodward’s new book, US President Biden, who is still in office, is said to have shouted at Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu during this telephone conversation because the Israeli Prime Minister had “no strategy” for his planned military operation in the Gaza Strip. Biden is also said to have warned Netanyahu during the phone call that Israel is viewed as a “rogue state” by some representatives of international allies.
According to Woodward, Biden lost his temper several times in conversations with Netanyahu
The CNN According to available excerpts from Woodward’s book, Biden also asked the Israeli prime minister during their April phone call with regard to Israel’s goals in Gaza: “What’s your strategy, man?” Netanyahu saw an Israeli invasion of Rafah as necessary at the time because the city According to IDF information, it was the last bastion of Hamas at that time Gaza Strip had become. At that time, Biden vehemently and repeatedly rejected the planned entry of Israeli troops into Gaza.
The US President also addressed Netanyahu with words of warning at the time and declared that Israel would no longer receive any more weapons from the US if it advanced into Rafah. “They won’t get our support if they attack there,” Biden said at the time. After Hamas’ momentous attack on the Supernova music festival near Re’im in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, the USA joined forces with Israel.
They helped Israel with continued payments worth billions. Biden is also historically the first US president to visit Israel during an ongoing war, as he did in Tel-Aviv on October 18, 2023. But in view of the countless civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip and the catastrophic humanitarian conditions on sitethe outgoing US president expressed increasingly harsh criticism of Netanyahu’s actions as the Middle East conflict progressed and tried more frequently to get Israel’s prime minister to reconsider his course in Gaza.
Woodward in new book “War”: According to Biden, Netanyahu “doesn’t give a damn” about Hamas
When Netanyahu finally ordered Israel’s ground troops to march into Rafah in May, Biden was known to be unimpressed. According to Woodward’s new book, the outgoing US president is said to be behind closed doors However, Netanyahu’s course has become much clearer. Biden is said to have called the Israeli prime minister a “damn liar.” CNN and the Times of Israel according to Woodward’s new book. Woodward also writes in “War” that Biden said of Netanyahu that he “doesn’t give a damn” about Hamas and instead “only cares about himself.”
Biden’s relationship with Netanyahu was considered difficult throughout both of their terms in office. Although the two have known each other for decades, the White House has already sharply criticized the coalition that Israel’s prime minister formed with rebel right-wing extremists at the end of 2022. At the time, Biden was also extremely critical of the Israeli government’s plans to reform the judiciary in 2023. As a staunch supporter of Israel, Biden emphasized at the time that he was concerned about the state of democracy in the country.
Biden and Netanyahu end their radio silence – and have a “direct and productive” telephone conversation
Biden and Netanyahu had their last telephone conversation on August 21, after which there was radio silence between the heads of state for weeks. Like the US news portal Axios Now reported, Biden and Netanyahu ended their week-long radio silence again on Wednesday morning (local time). The main concern of the phone call, in which Kamala Harris also took part, according to the White House, was Israel’s planned retaliatory strike against Iran, but also Israel’s handling of it Hezbollah in Lebanon. According to White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, the conversation lasted around 30 minutes and was “direct and productive.”
“With regard to the Gaza Strip, the leaders discussed the urgent need to resume diplomatic efforts to secure the release of hostages held by Hamas. The President also discussed the humanitarian situation in Gaza and the need to restore access to the north, including through the immediate revival of the corridor from Jordan. “
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