The Defense Ministry said that Netanyahu's speech attacking the US regarding disputes over the pace of weapons transfers took the entire defense establishment by surprise.

The United States is expected to lift its hold on the shipment of ammunition and weapons designated for the IDF, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Office said on Tuesday, just one day after the Israeli leader accused the Biden administration of preventing the delivery of those arms.

“US Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew told Prime Minister Netanyahu yesterday that the ammunition and weapons that the PM referred to are in the process of being delivered to Israel,” the PMO wrote in an English language post on X.

  • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
    195·
    6 months ago

    surely its obvious by now - “bibi” just wants to solve the starving palestinian kid crisis with american bullets. gotta throw a tantrum so kind old uncle sam will feed more quarters into the genocide machine and keep those pesky Israeli elections at bay.

    edit: from the article

    US Representative Richie Torres (D-NY) wrote a message to Netanyahu on X, stating “If you are looking to undermine the bipartisanship of the US-Israel relationship, then release a public video attacking the Biden Administration, which, despite hysterical opposition from the far left, has held firm in support of Israel for eight months and counting.

    hey, NY… you gonna do anything about this conflicted, homicidal piece of sh*t?

    edit 2: regarding my comment on Torres - anyone unable to distinguish between hamas and an 8yo Palestinian kid is not fit for public office. and if they can, but choose violence on the kid, well f*ck them, “progressive” or not. when people show you who they are, believe them.

  • retrospectology@lemmy.worldEnglish
    132·
    6 months ago

    It astounds me that Biden is still in thrall to this guy. He’s basically deliberately sabotaging Biden’s re-election chances and Biden just keeps protecting him.

    I’m not for American hegemony, but the fact is that Israel is dependent on US, not the other way around. Biden needs to flex that power to shut this idiot up.

    The only explanation I’ve been able to come up with for why Biden refuses to do anything but jerk Netanyahu off, even as Netanyahu spits in his face over and over is that Israeli intelligence has some kind of destructive kompromat on Biden. It’s the only way it makes sense.

    • ghostdoggtv@lemmy.worldEnglish
      61·
      6 months ago

      They only need kompromat on Biden’s opponent to gain leverage on Biden in a two party system. Israeli sympathizers and other Zionists only support Democrats insofar as the GOP are technically outsiders at the moment. They already started stabbing progressive democrats in the back and will start stabbing centrists in the back closer to the election. Trump is stupid and complicit enough to nuke Gaza if that’s what Nazanyahu asks him to do. Yahu has almost enough American firepower to do the same using conventional weapons. Why get his own hands dirty when he can use a crisis he controls consolidate power over the United States too? Zionism is treason

        • ghostdoggtv@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          6 months ago

          Maybe, but if Israel leads the strike, then it’s Israel alone vs the world and that is pretty much their nightmare worst case scenario. They intend to use the US as their own human shields.

    • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      54·
      6 months ago

      Either Biden has a humiliation fetish or he is so delusional that he thinks groveling even harder for Netanyahu is going to win him the election.

  • acargitz@lemmy.caEnglish
    9·
    6 months ago

    Until his complaints are about how he doesn’t have enough books in his cell in the Hague penitentiary, I don’t care about anything that Bibi Fucking Netanyahu has to complain about.