In his presidential exit interview with the broadcaster MSNBC on Thursday, US President Joe Biden revealed that he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to “carpet bomb” Palestinians as he retaliated for the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attacks.

That messaging came just 10 days into Israel’s war on Gaza, when Biden, a longtime self-described Zionist, personally visited Israel.

Biden says Netanyahu told him that the US carpet-bombed Germany and dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan during the Second World War, suggesting that Americans cannot lecture Israelis on military tactics.

  • riot@beehaw.org
    4·
    10 hours ago

    I honestly don’t think that old man Joe can recall what he has said to Netanyahu, let alone had for breakfast this morning. What he said is beside the point because he continued to fork over blank checks to Israel. Glad we are rid of him. I have no faith the dems will give us something better moving forward though.

  • freagle@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    11·
    15 hours ago

    So in his exit interview he is choosing to say that he is worse at negotiating than Trump?

    This is stage managed.

  • superkret@feddit.org
    15·
    21 hours ago

    So Bibi is saying the US can’t criticize Israel because they bombed the Nazis (which freed the Jews from the death camps).
    How does that make sense?

    • Bone@lemmy.world
      2·
      12 hours ago

      It doesn’t. Jews observe Passover. An event marked by the death of Egyptian children for the freeing of Jewish slaves. The religion has written into it that even the death of children is acceptable. When this kind of thing is written into your thought process, w/o question, then anything goes.

      I know this isn’t exactly what you were talking about, country vs religion, politics and war, but I feel more and more that it explains people’s lack of empathy. How you can see a thing, and not see a thing.