{"id":17110,"date":"2024-03-18T12:48:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T12:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/18\/kirby-dodges-answering-point-blank-if-biden-believes-netanyahu-impedes-peace-known-each-other-a-long-time\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T12:48:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T12:48:02","slug":"kirby-dodges-answering-point-blank-if-biden-believes-netanyahu-impedes-peace-known-each-other-a-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/18\/kirby-dodges-answering-point-blank-if-biden-believes-netanyahu-impedes-peace-known-each-other-a-long-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirby dodges answering point-blank if Biden believes Netanyahu impedes peace: \u2018Known each other a long time\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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White House national security communications adviser John Kirby brushed off questioning Sunday regarding whether President Biden believes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is an \u2018impediment to peace,\u2019 saying the two world leaders have \u2018known each other a long time\u2019 and have an open line of communication.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018Does the president think that Benjamin Netanyahu is a bigot? That he\u2019s an impediment to peace? That he should be lumped in with Hamas?\u2019 Fox News\u2019 Shannon Bream asked Kirby on \u2018Fox News Sunday.\u2019<\/p>\n

Kirby did not explicitly answer,\u00a0instead highlighting that the two world leaders have long known each other and that the U.S. respects Israel\u2019s sovereignty.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018These are two men, leaders that have known each other a long time, Shannon, and they don\u2019t agree on everything \u2013 haven\u2019t over 40 years. And there are certain aspects to the prosecution of operations in Gaza, where we obviously don\u2019t agree with everything that Israel has done. But they have a relationship where they can talk to one another, and they do, and they will again. He is the prime minister of Israel. We respect the sovereignty of the Israeli people,\u2019 he responded.<\/p>\n

The question comes after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who is Jewish, delivered a speech last week calling for Netanyahu\u2019s ouster and labeling him an \u2018obstacle to peace\u2019 as war rages in Israel and Gaza since October.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Along with Netanyahu, Schumer added that \u2018Hamas and the Palestinians who support and tolerate their evil ways; the radical right-wing Israelis in government and society; [and] Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas\u2019 are the other obstacles preventing peace.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Biden later described Schumer\u2019s remarks as a \u2018good speech.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018He made a good speech, and I think he expressed serious concern shared not only by him, but by many Americans,\u2019 Biden said Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bream pressed Kirby on whether Biden agrees with Schumer that there needs to be an election in Israel and that Netanyahu should no longer serve as prime minister.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018The president believes it\u2019s up to the Israeli people and the Israeli government to determine if and when there\u2019s going to be new elections. But he does, as he said shortly after Leader Schumer\u2019s very passionate speech, he recognizes that the leader was speaking for a lot of Americans who feel the same way about the way the war is going. We also have concerns about some of the operations and how they\u2019re being conducted. We need to make sure that civilians are protected and secure, that civilian casualties come down, that more trucks and assistance get in and, of course, we\u2019re still working on that temporary cease-fire to get all those hostages out,\u2019 Kirby responded.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kirby\u2019s remarks follow another interview last week on MSNBC, where host Andrea Mitchell repeatedly asked the White House official if Biden believes Netanyahu is an \u2018obstacle to peace.\u2019 Kirby dodged the question three times, which Mitchell pointed out on air before moving on with the interview.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2018The president knows that the Israeli people get to determine who their elected government representatives are. That\u2019s what democracy is all about, and he respects that,\u2019 Kirby responded after one of Mitchell\u2019s questions regarding if Netanyahu is an \u2018obstacle to peace.\u2019 \u2018And he has been nothing but candid and forthright with the prime minister about ways in which we think things can be done differently, things can be done better, things can be done a little bit more stridently to get more assistance into the people of Gaza to and to reduce the number of civilian casualties. I mean, my goodness, these are two guys that have no problem being honest with one another, and I can assure you that the president has done that.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u2018Let me just say that answer \u2013 that question was not answered three times. That\u2019s all right. That was your answer,\u2019 Mitchell ultimately said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Netanyahu responded to Schumer\u2019s speech this weekend, calling it \u2018inappropriate\u2019 and detailing that a potential election is up to Israel and its voters.<\/p>\n

\u2018I think what he said is totally inappropriate. It\u2019s inappropriate to go to a sister democracy and try to replace the elected leadership there,\u2019 Netanyahu said in a CNN interview.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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