This has Donald Trump ‘like thing’ written all over it….
(Some of us REALLY hope not)
Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu has been under investigation,* with his wife for corruption for a LONG time….
Yet?
He runs and has just clitched a second Prime Minister term….
American President Joe Biden might not be happy…
Bibi is sure to add to Biden’s list of headaches….
Netanyahu has had no patience for negociation with Iran of much of anything , which goes against Biden’s wanting to negiocate just about everything….Iran is a prime example….Thoughts of Iran nuclear deal , which the former Prime Minsyter campiagn against are just about gone…..And Iran is helping Russia against the Ukraine ….
But Biden IS a guy who tends to look for the ‘silver lining ‘ in everyone…
Will it work with Bibi?
When President Biden took office last year, he held the advantage in a tumultuous, four-decade relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu, the longtime Israeli prime minister.
Mr. Biden had vanquished former President Donald J. Trump, who was a close ally of Mr. Netanyahu, and the new American president made clear that one of his first foreign policy initiatives would be to restart the Iran nuclear deal that the Israeli prime minister hated, and consistently sought to undermine.
Meanwhile, in Israel, Mr. Netanyahu faced charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust. Within months, he would be ousted from office after more than a dozen years as the leader of the Jewish state.
Now, the tables have turned.
Mr. Biden’s hopes for a nuclear deal with Iran have all but collapsed, and Iran has begun supplying missiles and drones to Russia for use in Ukraine. Polls suggest the president faces a stinging rebuke in midterm elections next week that may end his domestic legislative agenda. Mr. Trump remains a potent force in American politics, likely to run again in 2024….
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During Mr. Trump’s four years in office, Mr. Netanyahu faced little pressure from the United States to bend to the will of an American president. Mr. Trump never challenged Mr. Netanyahu’s campaign of sabotage and assassination in Iran, or his refusal to pursue a two-state solution with the Palestinians. The relationship between the two leaders did not seem to fray until Mr. Netanyahu congratulated Mr. Biden for his victory in 2020, leading the former president to accuse his Israeli counterpart of disloyalty….
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As vice president, Mr. Biden often found himself at odds with Mr. Netanyahu or his government…
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The disagreements over policy between Mr. Biden and Mr. Netanyahu sometimes seemed to stoke personal animosities.
On a visit to Israel in March 2010, Mr. Netanyahu’s government announced the construction of new settlement projects in East Jerusalem, territory that would have been up for negotiation over the boundaries of a Palestinian state. Mr. Biden, who had just hours earlier gushed effusively about the security relationship between the two nations, was surprised by the announcement — and angry.
That night, Mr. Biden delayed his arrival at a dinner with Mr. Netanyahu and his wife for more than 90 minutes, a diplomatic rebuke intended to make his displeasure clear. (Mr. Netanyahu maintained he was not involved in the decision on settlements or the timing of the announcement during Mr. Biden’s visit.)…
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“Bibi, I don’t agree with a damn thing you say, but I love you.”
“Biden has this instinctive attachment to Israel,” Mr. Ross said. The belief that Israelis feel “existentially threatened” by their adversaries, Mr. Ross said, led Mr. Biden to be more inclined to understand Mr. Netanyahu’s point of view.
After Mr. Netanyahu became prime minister in 1996 and then lost the position three years later, Mr. Biden was the only American politician to write him a letter after his election defeat….
*Note.…Few, if any, Western Countries actually incarcerate crooked leader’s….
image….Politico