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The Axios news website reported that US President joe biden He hung up the phone on the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu During their last call, in new evidence of the expansion of the dispute between them against the backdrop of the ongoing Israeli war on the Gaza Strip for 100 days.
The American website indicated that the last time Biden and Netanyahu spoke was on December 23, and the aforementioned incident occurred.
Axios quoted American officials as saying that Biden and senior officials in his administration are frustrated with Netanyahu because he rejected requests from Washington related to the war on Gaza.
The website indicated that there is increasing evidence that Biden is beginning to lose his patience with the Israeli official, stressing that the US administration is concerned that Israel will not adhere to its schedule for moving to less severe operations in Gaza.
“A dream that cannot be achieved”
Axios reported that US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken made it clear to Netanyahu and the Israeli War Cabinet during his recent visit to Tel Aviv that Israel’s plan for the next day is “a dream that cannot be achieved.”
The American website added that Blinken’s recent visit to Israel exacerbated frustration within the White House and within the ministry.
In the same context, the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported that those it described as those close to the US President believe that Netanyahu is prolonging the war for political and personal reasons.
During the past weeks, public disagreements surfaced between Biden and Netanyahu over the way to manage the war on Gaza, and the future of the Strip after the fighting stopped, but these disagreements did not reach the point of stopping or changing the nature of American support forTel Aviv.
Biden said two weeks ago that Israel had begun to lose global support because of what he described as its indiscriminate bombing of Gaza, but he reiterated that Tel Aviv could rely on American support and stressed that he supported its “right to defend itself.”
The US President hinted at the existence of differences in his relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, stressing that the latter is in a “difficult position.”
