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Fri 31 Mar 2023 1:58 pm - Jerusalem Time
The New York Times: A Biden confrontation with Netanyahu has been brewing for years
The New York Times published a news analysis, under the headline “Biden’s confrontation with Netanyahu has been brewing for years,” in which it was stated that when US President Joe Biden explicitly warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he “cannot continue on this path” regarding judicial reform in His country provoked the kind of response usually expressed by opponents of the United States, not its allies, as Netanyahu said on Wednesday that "Israel is a sovereign state that makes its decisions by the will of its people and is not based on pressure from outside, including from best friends," accusing the US president of meddling in Another country's politics - which is exactly what Biden intended to do.
According to the newspaper, "It was a remarkable public explosion of this type of dispute that usually takes place in secret, but there were other factors brewing for many years, as there is no affection that can disappear between the two leaders, despite the polite facade that they show regarding their relationship that has been going on for decades." Time and their shared commitment to defending Israel, and Netanyahu has made no special effort to hide his support for President Donald Trump in the 2020 election, making clear his preference for someone who did everything he asked for, including moving the US embassy to Jerusalem and paying little attention to the Palestinians and allegedly backing Israel. entitlement to the Palestinian lands in the occupied West Bank.
In Biden's view, the newspaper says in its news analysis, "Netanyahu himself engaged in what was perhaps the most daring intervention in the American legislative process in modern history, when he arrived in Washington in 2015 and addressed Congress, denouncing the pending nuclear agreement with Iran and describing it as" a nightmare that will almost ensure that Iran has those nuclear weapons, and a lot of them."
At the time, according to the newspaper, "Netanyahu denied that he was meddling in American politics — instead, he insisted that he was making an argument against an agreement he believed would weaken Israel's security." However, former officials who helped shape US policy toward Israel in administrations described The current crisis is unusual.
The analytical report credits Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former Middle East peace negotiator at the State Department, as saying: “This is unlike any other crisis in the relationship between the United States and Israel. I have never seen any administration interact with a new Israeli movement.” With a force and a pace - and a high level - comparable to this."
Miller and others said the past weeks have dramatically altered US perceptions of Netanyahu, leaving Biden administration officials far less confident that differences with the Israeli leader and his right-wing government can be contained. "What amazes me is that the Biden administration is dealing with Netanyahu so differently than anything anyone has dealt with in the past," said Daniel Kurtzer, who served as US ambassador to Israel during the George W. Bush administration.
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The New York Times: A Biden confrontation with Netanyahu has been brewing for years