EU: Biden privately calls Netanyahu a ‘bad guy’ | AlMomento.net

Joe Biden

Washington.- US President Joe Biden is unhappy with the fact that Israel still has no intention of ending its war in the Gaza Strip and has privately described Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a “bad guy”. politics”

According to sources cited by the media, Biden deeply distrusts Netanyahu, as he fears he wants to drag Washington into a major war in the Middle East.

He points out that, although the American president has never said such things publicly, he is beginning to take steps to show pro-Palestinian activists that he is trying to influence his Israeli counterpart.

A spokesperson denies it

The president’s spokesman, Andrew Bates, confirmed that Biden “has not said that, and he will not say it,” stressing that the two leaders “have had a respectful decades-long relationship in public and private.”

In its report, Politico also noted that numerous US lawmakers, including pro-Israel Democrats, are disdainful of Netanyahu.

A House Democrat declared that during a dinner with his colleagues last month, “there was a unanimous opinion that this war between Israel and Gaza must end now and that Biden must face ‘Bibi’ (Netanyahu).”.

“This is a disaster politically. (…) I have never seen such suffering in this Gaza issue. ‘Bibi’ is toxic among many Democratic voters and Biden should stay away from her yesterday…,” the lawmaker stressed.

Even against Trump

It is worth remembering that last week, Politico also reported that despite the efforts of the US president to create an image of someone who wants to reduce the level of discontent and acrimony in the political sphere, he made disparaging comments about his predecessor, Donald Trump, behind closed doors. For example, last year, Biden called the former president a “sick bastard” who enjoys other people’s misfortunes, as well as lashing out at him: “What an absurd bastard this guy is.”