President Biden's decision to publicly criticize Israel is highly unusual for a leader who has pledged not to interfere in the country’s domestic politics. But there were other factors at work that had been brewing for many years.
President Joe Biden takes part in the Summit for Democracy Virtual Plenary on Democracy Delivering on Global Challenges at the South Court Auditorium of the White House in Washington, March 29, 2023.
In Biden’s eyes, Netanyahu engaged in what was perhaps the boldest interference in the U.S. legislative process in modern history, when he arrived in Washington in 2015 and addressed Congress, denouncing a then-pending nuclear deal with Iran as a “nightmare” that “will all but guarantee that Iran will get those nuclear weapons, lots of them.”
“What strikes me is that the Biden administration is dealing with a Bibi who’s very different from anything that anybody had dealt with previously,” said Daniel Kurtzer, who served as the U.S. ambassador to Israel during the George W. Bush administration, using a nickname for the prime minister. The back-and-forth with Netanyahu put Biden in an awkward position this week as his White House hosted a summit devoted to promoting democratic ideals, even as allied governments continued to test them.
He added: “And the great thing about friends, and I’m sure you all have friends, you don’t always agree with everything your friend does or says. And the great thing about a deep friendship is you can be that candid with one another.” The settlement matter, while largely overshadowed by the judicial reform, has the potential to further rock relations between the two countries. The Biden administration has been pressuring Netanyahu’s coalition for months to rein in settlement activity in the occupied West Bank, with little success.
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