Israel's Netanyahu says Biden 'wrong' in critique of war policy
The Hindu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected U.S. President Joe Biden’s comment that Israel’s approach to the war in Gaza was “hurting Israel more than helping Israel”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on March 10 rejected U.S. President Joe Biden's comment that Israel's approach to the war in Gaza was "hurting Israel more than helping Israel".
"If he meant by that that I'm pursuing private policies against the majority, the wish of the majority of Israelis, and that this is hurting the interests of Israel, then he's wrong on both counts," Mr. Netanyahu said in an interview with Politico.
The comments came one day after Mr. Biden said Mr. Netanyahu "must pay more attention to the innocent lives being lost as a consequence of the actions taken" in Gaza.
Mr. Biden, who has backed Israel during the five-month-old war with Hamas but whose frustration with Mr/ Netanyahu is growing increasingly visible, aired his criticism in an interview with MSNBC.
Mr. Netanyahu's failure to bring home hostages still held by Hamas, whose October 7 attack on Israel triggered the war, has led to regular protests in Israel and calls for early elections, including in Tel Aviv again on Saturday night.
Mr. Netanyahu told Politico that his policies were "supported by the overwhelming majority of the Israelis", who back "the action that we're taking to destroy the remaining terrorist battalions of Hamas."
He added that Israelis "say that once we destroy the Hamas, the last thing we should do is put in Gaza, in charge of Gaza, the Palestinian Authority that educates its children towards terrorism and pays for terrorism."
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