President Joe Biden raged at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for killing a top Hezbollah terrorist in Lebanon, according to ...
President Joe Biden raged at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for killing a top Hezbollah terrorist in Lebanon, according to a new book.
In “War,” journalist Bob Woodward writes that Biden fumed after Israel killed Fuad Shukr in an airstrike in late July. Shukr was Hezbollah’s “most senior military commander and the head of its Strategic Unit” and Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah’s “right-hand man.”
“Bibi, what the f***?” Biden screamed at Netanyahu, the book states. “You know the perception of Israel around the world increasingly is that you’re a rogue state, a rogue actor.”
Netanyahu responded by noting that Shukr was “one of the leading terrorists” in not only Hezbollah, but the world.
“We saw an opportunity and took it,” Netanyahu reportedly said. “The harder you hit, the more successful you’re going to be in the negotiation.”
Woodward goes on to give quotes of things that Biden has allegedly said about Netanyahu behind his back.
“That son of a b****, Bibi Netanyahu, he’s a bad guy. He’s a bad f***ing guy!” Biden told one of his associates earlier this year, the book states.
He also called Netanyahu “a f***ing liar,” the book adds.
“I know [Netanyahu’s] going to do something but the way I limit it is tell him to ‘Do nothing,’” Biden told his advisers.
Biden also claimed that Israel going into Rafah was “no strategy,” even though Hamas had effectively been isolated to there and pinned down.
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