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Biden Says ‘There’s Every Reason’ for People to Draw Conclusion Netanyahu Prolonging Gaza War (Connecting the Dots: Joe Biden, Time magazine, Palestine (Hamas), Soros Family & Soros Funding, All Networking)

Biden Says ‘There’s Every Reason’ for People to Draw Conclusion Netanyahu Prolonging Gaza War (Connecting the Dots: Joe Biden, Time magazine, Palestine (Hamas), Soros Family & Soros Funding, All Networking)

The Epoch Times

By Ryan Morgan

6/4/2024 Updated: 6/4/2024

President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the White House on May 31, 2024. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/biden-says-theres-every-reason-for-people-to-draw-conclusion-netanyahu-prolonging-gaza-war-5662689

President Joe Biden recently entertained the theory that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is prolonging the current conflict in the Gaza Strip to bolster his personal political fortunes.

President Biden spoke with Time magazine in a May 28 White House interview, which was published on Tuesday. In it, the president discussed a range of foreign policy issues, including the fighting in the Gaza Strip and negotiations for a ceasefire.

Time magazine journalists initially asked the president which parties he believes are to blame for the lack of ceasefire nearly eight months on into the current war. President Biden responded at first that he believed Hamas—a U.S. and Israeli-designated Palestinian terrorist group—is responsible for the ongoing fighting and said the conflict could end “tomorrow” if Hamas would accept the ceasefire terms the Israeli side has offered.

Moments later, the Time magazine interviewers asked President Biden what he thought of the theory that Mr. Netanyahu also sees the ongoing war as an avenue for his political survival and is prolonging the fighting for his own electoral benefit.

“I’m not going to comment on that,” President Biden began before immediately adding, “There’s every reason for people to draw that conclusion.”

President Biden then suggested the political atmosphere in Israel prior to the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, and the ensuing Gaza conflict bolstered the theory that Mr. Netanyahu benefits from the ongoing war. Thousands of Israeli citizens had taken to the streets in September 2023 in protest of a judicial overhaul sought by the Netanyahu government.

“I would cite the as—before the war began, the blowback he was getting from the Israeli military for wanting to change the constitu—change the court,” President Biden told Time. “And so it’s an internal domestic debate that seems to have no consequence. And whether he would change his position or not, it’s hard to say, but it has not been helpful.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer similarly referenced disagreement over the judicial overhaul effort in Israel in a March Senate floor speech in which he referred to Mr. Netanyahu as an “obstacle to peace.” Mr. Schumer used the March floor speech to endorse calls for new elections in Israel, to be held as soon as the current Gaza conflict dies down.

Biden, Netanyahu Offer Differing Ceasefire Rhetoric

State Department spokesman Matthew Miller downplayed President Biden’s Time magazine interview remarks during a Tuesday department press briefing. Mr. Miller insisted President Biden was not necessarily endorsing the theory that Mr. Netanyahu was prolonging the war but merely stated, “some people could conclude that.”

Still, reporters at the department press briefing presented President Biden’s Time magazine comments alongside his efforts in the days since that interview to push along a ceasefire agreement. Members of Netanyahu’s governing coalition have already expressed reservations about the ceasefire terms as President Biden described them.

President Biden announced on Friday, May 31, that the Israeli government had put forward terms for a three-phase ceasefire plan. President Biden said Israeli forces have “devastated Hamas” over the past eight months of fighting and rendered them incapable of carrying out another attack as they did on Oct. 7. But the President did not clearly say on Friday that the peace plan would see Hamas’ total defeat, going only so far as to say the ensuing peace framework would “not allow Hamas to re-arm.”

President Biden’s May 31 remarks about the ceasefire deal appear to fall short of wartime goals articulated by Mr. Netanyahu and his allies to outright eliminate Hamas.

On Monday, Mr. Netanyahu told the Israeli Knesset that any claims he had agreed to any ceasefire deal “without our conditions being met” are incorrect.

sraeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, a member of Mr. Netanyahu’s governing coalition, said Mr. Netanyahu had assured him that President Biden had simply misconstrued the terms of the Israeli proposal. But Mr. Ben-Gvir also said Mr. Netanyahu has yet to provide the actual details of the ceasefire deal. On Monday, Mr. Ben-Gvir threatened to pull his Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) party out of Mr. Netanyahu’s governing coalition if he finds that the prime minister agreed to a “promiscuous deal” to end the war without outright eliminating Hamas.

Mr. Miller insisted on Tuesday that the ceasefire proposal Mr. Biden described on May 31 is the same one the Israeli government has put out and that it’s now up to Hamas leaders to accept the terms. Still, reporters questioned whether a sign-off by Hamas was the last step in implementing the deal.

“We are convinced it is the case that Israel is ready to implement this deal. As I said, it’s their proposal, a proposal put forward by the government and they have maintained to us they’re ready to implement it,” Mr. Miller said. “Doesn’t mean there aren’t voices inside Israel, or voices even inside the Israeli government opposed to it. But the government, speaking on behalf of the government, has said they support this proposal and are ready to stand behind that. We take them at their word.”

From NTD News

Connecting the Dots:

Mark Halperin was a senior political analyst for Time magazine, is Morton H. Halperin’s son and a commentator for the conservative Newsmax TV.

Morton H. Halperin is Mark Halperin’s father, a senior adviser for the Open Society Foundations and a director at the ONE Campaign.

Michael J. Elliott was the president & CEO for the ONE Campaign and a deputy managing editor for Time magazine.

Michelle Obama was an advocate for the ONE Campaign, a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP and is married to Barack Obama.

ONE Campaign is a partner with the International Rescue Committee.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee and the Brookings Institution (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society and is Robert Soros’s father.

Strobe Talbott is the president of the Brookings Institution (think tank), was William J. Clinton’s roommate at Oxford and an editor for Time magazine.  

William J. Clinton was Strobe Talbott’s roommate at Oxford and the 1992 & 1998 person of the year for Time magazine

Ben S. Bernanke was the 2009 person of the year for Time magazine and is a distinguished fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Cameron F. Kerry is a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank)John F. Kerry’s brother and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.

Sidley Austin LLP is the lobby firm for Israel.

Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.

Michelle Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP and an advocate for the ONE Campaign.

ONE Campaign is a partner with the International Rescue Committee.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society and is Robert Soros’s father.

Melissa Soros was married to Robert Soros and is a friend of Kate Betts.

Kate Betts is a friend of Melissa Soros and a contributing editor for TIME magazine.

Strobe Talbott was an editor for Time magazine, William J. Clinton’s roommate at Oxford and is the president of the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

David M. Rubenstein is the co-chairman for the Brookings Institution (think tank), a regent at the Smithsonian Institution and spent Thanksgiving with Joe Biden.

Cass R. Sunstein is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and married to Samantha Power.

Samantha Power is married to Cass R. Sunstein, was the United Nations U.S. ambassador for the Barack Obama administrationBarack Obama’s aide, a board member for the International Crisis Group, a director at the International Rescue Committee and a foreign policy columnist for Time magazine.

Palestine (Hamas) is a member of the United Nations.

George Soros is a board member for the International Crisis Group and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue Committee.

ONE Campaign is a partner with the International Rescue Committee.

Michael J. Elliott was the president & CEO for the ONE Campaign and a deputy managing editor for Time magazine.

Michelle Obama was an advocate for the ONE Campaign and a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.  

Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.

Sidley Austin LLP is the lobby firm for Israel.

Thomas R. Pickering was a U.S. ambassador for Israel and is a distinguished fellow for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Strobe Talbott is the president of the Brookings Institution (think tank), was William J. Clinton’s roommate at Oxford and an editor for Time magazine.

Kate Betts is a contributing editor for TIME magazine and a friend of Melissa Soros.

Melissa Soros is a friend of Kate Betts and was married to Robert Soros.

Robert Soros was married to Melissa Soros and is George Soros’s son.

George Soros is Robert Soros & Jonathan Soros’s father and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Jonathan Soros is George Soros’s son and a director at the New America Foundation.

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the New America Foundation.

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

Fareed Zakaria is a director at the New America Foundation and was the editor-at-large for the Time magazine.

Kati Marton is a director at the New America Foundation and an overseer at the International Rescue Committee,

Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the New America Foundation and the International Rescue Committee.

George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.

ONE Campaign is a partner with the International Rescue Committee.

Michael J. Elliott was the president & CEO for the ONE Campaign and a deputy managing editor for Time magazine.

Michelle Obama was an advocate for the ONE Campaign and a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.  

Barack Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.

Sidley Austin LLP is the lobby firm for Israel.

Resources: Past Research

Donald Trump Committee Asks Supporters to Award ‘King of Fake News Trophy’ (Past Research on TIME magazine)

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2017

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2017/12/donald-trump-committee-asks-supporters.html

Report: Obama Threatened to Shoot Down IAF Iran Strike (Past Research on Israel)

TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 2015

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/03/report-obama-threatened-to-shoot-down.html

Hours After John Kerry Demands Green Transition Accelerated – His Emissions Closet Swings Wide Open (Connecting the Dots: Cameron Kerry, John Kerry, Teresa Heinz Kerry, Soros, the Climate Reality Project, the Brookings Institution (think tank), the EPA and onto the FDA, Pfizer & Johnson & Johnson. It’s the Network That Never Ends. One Project (Climate Change) Just bleeds into the Next (Covid Project)) (Past Research on Cameron Kerry)

THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2022

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2022/07/hours-after-john-kerry-demands-green.html

Smithsonian Admits to Destruction of Thousands of Giant Human Skeletons in Early 1900′s (Past Research on the Smithsonian Institution)

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2014

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/12/smithsonian-admits-to-destruction-of.html

MSNBC Airs Palestinian Jihad Propaganda Map (Past Research on Palestine (Hamas))

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2015

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/10/msnbc-airs-palestinian-jihad-propaganda.html

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