[The Epoch Times, December 13, 2023](Comprehensive report by Epoch Times reporter Li Haoyue) U.S. President Biden warned on Tuesday (December 12) that Israel is losing international credibility due to Israel’s “indiscriminate bombing” of Gaza. With the support of the society, Biden delivered a relevant speech in unusually strong terms.
This is Biden’s most pointed assessment of Israel’s counterattack against Hamas since Hamas launched a terrorist attack on Israel on October 7. It is in sharp contrast to his previous full support for Israel.
Speaking at a fundraiser for his 2024 presidential campaign on Tuesday, Biden said, “Israel can count on the United States for its security, but now it has more than just the United States. Israel has the European Union, it has Europe, and most of the world supports it.” them.” Some of these donors are Jewish.
“They (Israel) started to lose that support because of the indiscriminate bombing that happened,” Biden said.
Biden’s sharp remarks come as White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan is traveling to Israel this week for talks with Israel’s war cabinet.
Biden believes that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can understand the current international situation, but he is not so sure that Israel’s wartime cabinet can do this.
Biden also specifically attacked Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who opposes a two-state solution and has called on Israel to regain control of the entire West Bank and Gaza Strip. Gvir is a member of Israel’s security cabinet, but not its war cabinet.
A senior Hamas official in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, echoed Biden’s pointed remarks on Tuesday.
Osama Hamdan, a member of the Hamas politburo, said at a press conference that “(the war) will have a catastrophic impact on the entity (Israel) and the outcome of the election, which Biden may to lose his position in the White House.”
On December 8, the United Nations Security Council voted on the ceasefire resolution in Gaza. The United States once again vetoed the ceasefire resolution with one vote. The United Kingdom abstained from the vote in the 13-1 vote, but France and Japan were countries that supported the ceasefire.
Biden revealed that when he warned Netanyahu that the bombing campaign would lose international support, the Israeli prime minister mentioned the United States’ “carpet bombing” of Germany and the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan in World War II.
Before Biden’s sharp comments, Netanyahu also thanked the United States for its support in a statement that day and said he had “full support for a ground invasion and to prevent international pressure to stop the war.” “.
Netanyahu said that (the United States and Israel) have differences on (the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip after Hamas), but hope that they can eventually reach an agreement. “I want to make my position clear: I will not allow Israel to repeat the mistakes of Oslo,” he said.
In the 1990s, US President Clinton brokered the Oslo Peace Agreement and established the Palestinian Authority, but the agreement ultimately failed.
Earlier on Tuesday, Sullivan said he would discuss a timetable for ending the massive war in Gaza with Netanyahu and said he would convey Biden’s views on the matter to Netanyahu. He said he would also hear from Netanyahu and Israeli officials on the issue.
“How they (Israel) view the timeline for this war will certainly be on the agenda for my meeting,” Sullivan said during a forum hosted by the Wall Street Journal.
Sullivan reiterated the Biden administration’s position that it does not want to see Israel reoccupy Gaza or further shrink Gaza’s already small territory.
The United States has repeatedly called for the reorganization of an internationally recognized Palestinian Authority that would return to Gaza and create a Palestinian state adjacent to Israel.
(This article refers to relevant reports from the Associated Press.)
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2023-12-12 23:24:58
