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Date: October 08, 2024 at 09:08:53
From: mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Why Harris said America stands with Israel, not Netanyahu |
URL: https://www.commondreams.org/news/ehud-olmert-iran |
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Ex-Israeli PM Says Netanyahu Wants to Draw US Into
'Reckless' War With Iran
"I'm afraid that if Israel will start a war, a
comprehensive war against Iran... America will join in
to help Israel," said former Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert. "And that is what Netanyahu believes."
Jake Johnson
Oct 08, 2024
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the
British outlet Channel 4 on Monday that he believes
current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to drag
the U.S. into a war with Iran, an effort that the ex-
Israeli leader called "reckless."
Asked whether he thinks Netanyahu "wants to draw the
United States into a confrontation with Iran," Olmert
replied, "I suspect that he does."
"I think that's reckless because I'm afraid that if
Israel will start a war, a comprehensive war against
Iran, and it will expand and Israel will not be in a
very comfortable situation, America will join in to
help Israel. And that is what Netanyahu believes to be
the case," said Olmert, who served as Israel's prime
minister from 2006 to 2009 and was succeeded by
Netanyahu.
Olmert expressed support for Israel's killing of
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah—a move that prompted
Iranian retaliation earlier this month—and said that
"something needs to be done" with regard to Iran.
"What needs to be done needs to be done with care, with
sensitivity, with responsibility, and with a sense of
proportion," Olmert added. "And I'm not certain that
Netanyahu wants this proportion. He looks at the
leadership of the international community, the Western
world, and he says, 'Who are they? I'm Bibi
Netanyahu.'"
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Date: October 08, 2024 at 12:34:28
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Netanyahu is the leader of Israel and the US has had leverage for a yr |
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but has chosen the darker path of appeasing and supporting a terrorist
and his genocide instead of using that leverage.
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Date: October 08, 2024 at 12:23:15
From: old timer, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Why Harris said America stands with Israel, not Netanyahu |
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it does appear netanyahu is trying to draw the us into a war. that’s why
she was asked on 60 minutes about him ignoring us requests for a
ceasefire in gaza and not to invade lebanon. the question was even
framed on how our billions of dollars are paying so we should have
some sway but israel ignores the us requests
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Date: October 08, 2024 at 10:17:48
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Why Harris said America stands with Israel, not Netanyahu |
URL: https://thehill.com/policy/international/4921917-biden-netanyahu-gaza-war-frustration/ |
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Biden called Netanyahu ‘a bad f—ing guy’: Woodward book
by Laura Kelly - 10/08/24 12:24 PM ET
President Biden’s frustrations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the war in Gaza have at times boiled over in profane terms, according to accounts in a new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Bob Woodward.
The president in private referred to Netanyahu as a “son of a bitch,” a “bad guy… a bad f—ing guy,” Woodward wrote of conversations with associates in the Spring of 2024, as Israel’s war in Gaza intensified, according to CNN, which obtained a copy of the book.
The White House has acknowledged Biden’s growing frustrations with Netanyahu over the course of the year as Palestinian civilian casualties mounted in the tens of thousands amid Israel’s pursuit to eliminate Hamas in Gaza following the Oct. 7 terrorist attack.
Woodward writes in the book that Biden criticized Netanyahu as having no strategy when the Israeli leader declared his intention to go into Gaza’s southern city of Rafah – a move that the Biden administration had worked to delay over humanitarian concerns, with more than one million people sheltering in a city home to less than 300,000 people.
“He’s a f–ing liar,” Biden said privately of Netanyahu, after Israel went into Rafah, Woodward reportedly wrote in the book.
Woodward wrote that Biden sought to influence Netanyahu in April against escalating action against Iran by telling him to “do nothing” and to “take the win,” after the U.S. and regional allies helped Israel down a missile barrage launched by Iran at the time.
Israel instead struck an Iranian airfield near a sensitive nuclear site as retaliation, but it did not escalate further at that time.
“I know he’s going to do something but the way I limit it is tell him to ‘Do nothing,’” Biden told his advisers, according to Woodward.
But Biden’s frustrations with Netanyahu have heightened amid a series of Israeli actions against Iranian targets and its proxies of Hezbollah and Hamas over the summer, many of which reportedly took place without the U.S. receiving advance notice.
“Bibi, what the f–?” Biden yelled at Netanyahu in July after an Israeli airstrike killed a top Hezbollah military commander and three civilians in Beirut, according to Woodward.
“You know the perception of Israel around the world increasingly is that you’re a rogue state, a rogue actor,” Biden said to Netanyahu, according to the book.
Netanyahu responded that the target was “one of the leading terrorists.”
“We saw an opportunity and took it,” Netanyahu said. “The harder you hit, the more successful you’re going to be in the negotiation.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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