CNN reported Tuesday that the famous American author, Bob Woodward, who brought down former President Richard Nixon 50 years ago, says in his new book, “War,” that US President Joe Biden called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a damned liar and a son of a bitch” after the Israeli occupation army entered Rafah on May 6, “and he also shouted at the prime minister after an Israeli airstrike led to the assassination of a senior Hezbollah leader.”

The relationship between the two leaders became increasingly tense during the spring of 2024, according to the network, which obtained an advance copy of the book titled “War.”

According to excerpts, Biden asked Netanyahu in a phone call last April: “What’s your strategy, man?”

Netanyahu replied that Israel should enter Rafah, on the border between Gaza and Egypt, which “has become the last Hamas stronghold in Gaza,” to which Biden responded, “Bibi, you have no strategy.”

Also last April, Israel assassinated two Revolutionary Guard generals at the Iranian consulate in the Syrian capital, Damascus. After the United States and other allies helped Israel intercept most of the missiles Iran fired in response, Biden urged Netanyahu not to respond and to “win.” According to the book, Biden viewed Israel’s limited response to the Iranian attack as a success. “I know he’s going to do something,” Biden told advisers, “but the way I end it is to tell him not to do something.”

After Israel entered Rafah, Biden said of Netanyahu: "He is a damned liar."

According to Woodward, Biden said in a private session: “This son of a bitch, Bibi Netanyahu, he’s a bad man. He’s a bad, bad man!”

It is noteworthy that Politico magazine reported last February that Biden uses these expressions when talking about Netanyahu.

And when Israel assassinated Hezbollah’s top military commander, Fuad Shukr, on July 31, Biden shouted in their subsequent conversation, “Bibi, what the hell?” “You know, the perception of Israel around the world is increasingly that you are a rogue state, a rogue actor.”

The United States claimed that Fuad Shukr played a key role in the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 Marines. The United States had a $5 million bounty on Shukr's head when he was killed.

Woodward also wrote about US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman about normalizing relations with Israel. Blinken asked whether the Saudis were insisting on a Palestinian state as the price for normalization.

“Do I want it?” Bin Salman asked. “It doesn’t matter much. Do I need it? Sure.”

Woodward gives priority and the largest space in the book to the Russian-Ukrainian war.