President Biden is ready to talk Monday morning with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a supply has showed to Fox News, as tensions between the U.S. and Israel are escalating over the route of the struggle towards Hamas within the Gaza Strip.
The scheduled assembly – which will be the first name since Feb. 15 – comes after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer delivered a speech Thursday calling for Netanyahu’s ouster and labeling him an “obstacle to peace.” The subsequent day, Biden described Schumer’s remarks as a “good speech” that “expressed serious concern shared not only by him, but by many Americans.”
Netanyahu then issued a pointy rebuttal to Schumer on Sunday, pronouncing all through an interview on “Fox & Friends Weekend” that his feedback at the Senate ground have been “wholly inappropriate.”
“I think we’re not a banana republic. The people of Israel will choose when they’ll have elections, who they elect, and it’s not something that will be foisted upon us,” Netanyahu added.
NETANYAHU BLASTS SCHUMER, BIDEN OVER WANING SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL
President Biden, proper, meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York on Sept. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
The majority chief had stated he believed that “Prime Minister Netanyahu has lost his way by allowing his political survival to take the precedence over the best interests of Israel.”
“It’s wrong to try to replace the elected leaders of a sister democracy and a staunch American ally at any time, but especially during the time of war,” Netanyahu countered.
KIRBY DODGES ANSWERING POINT BLANK IF BIDEN BELIEVES NETANYAHU IMPEDES PEACE
President Biden, proper, is greeted via Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after arriving at Ben Gurion International Airport on Oct. 18, 2023, in Tel Aviv, Israel. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
White House nationwide safety communications adviser John Kirby dismissed wondering Sunday referring to whether or not Biden believes Netanyahu is an “impediment to peace,” pronouncing the 2 international leaders have “known each other a long time” and feature an open line of communique.
“Does the president think that Benjamin Netanyahu is a bigot? That he’s an impediment to peace? That he should be lumped in with Hamas?” Fox News’ Shannon Bream requested Kirby on “Fox News Sunday.”
Kirby didn’t explicitly resolution, as an alternative highlighting that the 2 international leaders have lengthy recognized each and every different and that the U.S. respects Israel’s sovereignty.
In this symbol from video supplied via Senate TV, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks at the Senate ground on the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on March 14. Schumer known as on Israel to carry new elections. Schumer says he believes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “lost his way” over the Israeli bombardment of Gaza and a rising humanitarian disaster there. (Senate TV by the use of AP)
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“These are two men, leaders that have known each other a long time, Shannon, and they don’t agree on everything – haven’t over 40 years. And there are certain aspects to the prosecution of operations in Gaza, where we obviously don’t agree with everything that Israel has done. But they have a relationship where they can talk to one another, and they do, and they will again. He is the prime minister of Israel. We respect the sovereignty of the Israeli people,” he replied.
Fox News’ Patrick Ward, Madeline Coggins and Emma Colton contributed to this file.
