President Joe Biden warns Israel of a policy shift over the Gaza war, expressing frustration with Benjamin Netanyahu and facing domestic pressure in an election year.
Washington, DC – President Joe Biden warned Israel of a sharp shift in his policy over the Gaza war Thursday amid growing frustration with Benjamin Netanyahu and mounting domestic pressure in a US election year .
But the Democrat faces spiraling anger from Muslim and younger voters over his support for Israel, and political allies have been pressing him to make the aid conditional on changed Israeli behavior. “What happened to the World Central Kitchen, that event certainly was a catalyst for the call today,” White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told CNN Thursday evening.
Later that evening Netanyahu’s office announced it was reopening the Erez border crossing for the first time since Oct. 7 to allow aid into the northern Gaza Strip, as well as allowing supplies to pass through the port of Ashdod. Increased levels of Jordanian aid will go through Kerem Shalom. Democrats fear anger among Arab American and Muslim voters in an expected tight election against Republican Donald Trump in November.
Despite historic tensions with right-winger Netanyahu, Biden traveled to Israel as a self-described “Zionist” days after the Hamas attacks and hugged the premier.
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