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WASHINGTON — President Biden was caught saying on a hot mic Thursday evening that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needed a “come to Jesus” talk about the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip.
The president, 81, made the awkward comment about the Jewish state’s head of government while mingling with lawmakers following his State of the Union address — asking Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) to keep what he said confidential. “I told him, ‘Bibi’ — and don’t repeat this, but [I said] ‘You and I are going to have a come to Jesus—’,” Biden began as an aide rushed over to stop him from saying more, exclaiming “Sir!” and whispering in his ear. “I’m on a hot mic here,” Biden said out loud after the aide conveyed his message, adding sarcastically, “Good. That was good.” When asked about the comment on Friday, Biden tried to plead ignorance, telling reporters as he left the White House for a campaign trip to Philadelphia, “I didn’t say that in the speech.” After a reporter clarified that they were asking about the comment made “after the speech,” the president groused, “You guys eavesdropping on things.” https://www.axios.com/202...-netanyahu https://www.timesofisrael...eting/amp/ “Come to Jesus” is an American expression for having a blunt conversation. Biden has had a checkered, decades-long relationship with Netanyahu, but those ties have come under particular strain in recent months, as Washington sours over Israel’s prosecution of the war in Gaza amid a growing feeling that the premier is not doing enough to address the ongoing humanitarian crisis. |
| Did he say what the topic would be? Maybe it is Biden that is coming to Jesus in the meeting. |
Keep up the lies. |
If you polled every single Israeli and asked them one simple question, the response would be perfectly unanimous. Nearly 10M people, not one single outlier. If you had to choose between (1) living in Israel and enduring the "terrorism" from the Palestinians, or (2) living in Gaza or the West Bank and enduring the "terrorism" from the Israelis, which would you choose? 100.00% would choose (1). And that's why this "terrorized by terrorists" canard is a big effing joke. Zionists rely on maintaining the propaganda that Palestinian "terrorism" is much more than what it actually is - a periodic nuisance, and nothing more, for a tiny fraction of the Israeli population - to justify its ongoing brutal subjugation of the Palestinian people and misappropriation of land. 10/7 was an abhorrent despicable series of acts, Hamas should be brought to justice, and everyone should agree on those facts. It doesn't change the fact that Israel's current leadership and historic leadership is comprised of some of the worst human beings to have ever walked this planet. |
I mean 9/11 was really no NBD in the scheme of things |
NP. In point of fact, the post 9/11 overwrought reaction caused much more damage to the U.S. than the actual attack. Zionists ought to be cautious for their own sakes’ and not let their shortsightedness cripple their long-term project. |
During what time? Before the 1980s, it wasn’t Palestinians but other Arab countries with armies fighting Israel. Egypt in 1973. Egypt, Jordan, Syria in 1967. 1948-same thing. Palestinians didn’t have any weapons whatsoever in the West Bank or make any bombs or start terror attacks in Israel until the 1980s when Hamas was formed. If if I’m not mistaken, it was mostly Palestinian immigrants outside of Israel that were doing terror attacks outside of Israel from time to time in other Arab countries and in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s Israel stupidly encouraged Hamas to bring the terrorism to their own backyard all because they didn’t want peace. In the words of Rabin about Palestinian intifada peaceful protestors “Break their Bones” , when he finally acquiesced and wanted peace and a two state solution, an Israeli broke his bones . Israel would much rather have Hamas than a Palestine state /two state solution. All the political gusto about Hamas from Israel is fake. They don’t want them gone because they and Hamas agree that they don’t want a two state solution. |
So you wouldn’t want the hostage to eat neither? Dumb take. Israel is so disconnected from the hostages it’s scary. They are Gazan citizens right now too and they want to be safe and to be fed. |
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Israel is killing more hostages than they are saving with this war. They admitted the number of 132 is likely 101 remaining hostages alive as 32 people died .
Yesterday in Israel, the hostage families were blocking the highway, sitting in cages, and burning tires in protest of Netanyahu and government. https://www.timesofisrael.com/hostage-families-block-main-jerusalem-tel-aviv-highway-with-cages-on-154th-day-of-war/amp/ |
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I like how you added the detail about sex salve. None of the hostages have said they were sex slaves for Hamas. In fact, the woman who said she could feel her captor “ raping her with his eyes” got a free nose job in Israel because she’s so bummed that Hamas didn’t touch her . I’ve never seen a country actually want their women to be raped before. A dead woman was made into a rape victim by the Nytimes by an Israeli female reporter .
Hamas doesn’t have to rape to be a monster. Taking hostages is already a monstrous act |
I wish his aide didn’t stop him. I wanted to hear more |
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Come to Jesus is probably not the right phrase to use to a Jewish leader . It’s very W Bush.
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Israel is literally fighting a war to save their hostages. IDF men and women are bravely and unquestioningly fighting, and during, to bring the hostages home. But yes, Israel does not want to open their prisons and release more Hamas monsters into the world and prolong the war. During the earlier ceasefire, it was a sad reality that they had to make this trade because most of the hostages were women and children, but now with most of the hostages remaining being IDF soldiers, trading viscous, rightfully imprisoned hardened Hamas militants does not make sense. It is on Hamas to immediately release every single hostage, and unconditional surrender. Until then the IDF will continue their efforts to save hostages, target military infrastructure, and continue their humanitarian-minded war effort. |
How do you say this sort of stuff with a straight face? I'm laughing so hard that my tears are making things viscous. Saving the hostages is an afterthought and military infrastructure has not been the main target of anything but calling deliberate starvation humanitarian-minded takes a special sort of monster. |