Report: Biden spoke during meetings, some of which were with donors to his election campaign, about his frustration at his inability to persuade Israel to change its military tactics in the war on Gaza, during which he described his talks with Netanyahu as “hell.”

US President Joe Biden spoke during meetings, some of which were with donors to his election campaign, about his frustration with his inability to persuade Israel to change its military tactics in the war on Gaza, and his frustration with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to what ABC reported today, Monday, five. Informed sources.

The sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity, added that Biden is trying to persuade Israel to agree to a ceasefire, but Netanyahu is turning the conversation with him into “hell” and it is impossible to deal with him. One source said Biden feels the war “must stop.”

Informed sources indicated that Biden has spoken specifically about Netanyahu in recent weeks, with a frankness that surprised some of those receiving his comments. These people said that Biden's description of his dealings with Netanyahu is full of contemptuous references to the latter, calling him "that guy." Biden also called Netanyahu, at least three times, an “idiot,” according to three people with direct knowledge of his comments.

In response to a question about Biden's own statements regarding Netanyahu, a spokesman for the National Security Council said, "The president was clear about his disagreement with Prime Minister Netanyahu, but this has been a relationship that has been going on for decades and has been respected in public and in private," the network quoted him as saying.

However, the network added that as the war on Gaza continued, Biden became more frustrated due to the high number of civilian martyrs in Gaza, and Netanyahu’s refusal to reach a long-term peace agreement, and that the relationship between them could be approaching an inflection point.

Despite the disagreement between them over the issues of “the next day” and the future of the Gaza Strip after the war, which occupied a large part of their phone conversation yesterday, and Netanyahu’s insistence on launching an attack on the city of Rafah, which was carried out last night, Biden said that he believed it would be futile. To be very harsh with Netanyahu in public, according to people familiar with the matter.

These differences also did not lead to a change in the Biden administration’s policy towards Israel. Even as Biden steps up his rhetoric and talks about Israel's exaggeration of the war, he is not yet ready to make major policy changes, the people familiar with the matter said. He and his aides still believe his approach of unequivocally supporting Israel is the right one.

However, in perhaps some of his final private moments, Biden said Netanyahu wanted the war to continue so he could remain in power, three people familiar with his comments reported.

At a fundraising campaign attended by Biden in the past few weeks, he spoke about Israel and his frustrations with Netanyahu to a small group of donors. In response to his thanks for standing with Israel and against anti-Semitism, Biden said: “I am a Zionist.”

A person who was present and heard Biden's comments said: "He said that Bibi started out great, but lately he has been hurting me and causing damage" to Biden's election campaign.