Joe Biden, interviewed by Fareed Zakaria, a political analyst and the host of Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN, said in a sharp statement on Sunday, July 9, that all Israel\u2019s problem now is not in the West Bank but the opinion of some of the government members of Netanyahu about the settlements to blame partially. Criticizing Netanyahu\u2019s government as \u201cone of the most extreme\u201d ones he has seen in his decades in politics, since Golda Meir until now, Biden said that the Israeli minister of finance and minister of national security are part of the problem of the occupied West Bank. In that interview, Biden expressed his hope that Netanyahu will step on the path of moderation.<\/p>\n
Biden\u2019s remarks against Netanyahu\u2019s government have been met with the reaction of some of the officials of the Zionist regime\u2019s cabinet. One of Netanyahu\u2019s advisers has revealed that he (Netanyahu) said in response to the US president\u2019s statements that Biden is very rude, even ruder than Obama, and even former President Barack Obama did not dare to speak this way.<\/p>\n
Regarding the consequences of Biden\u2019s recent statements, which have been widely reflected in the political and media circles of the region and the Zionist regime, and inside the United States, there are \u201cthoughtful\u201d points, the most important of which are as follows:<\/p>\n
One, the words exchanged between the leaders of the Zionist regime and the United States should not be interpreted as tension in the relations between the United States and the Zionist regime. When Netanyahu was in office for the past three years, the US president made critical and sometimes harsh statements about Netanyahu and his approaches.<\/p>\n
The recent statements of the US president are mainly against Netanyahu and the extreme policies of his cabinet. Biden believes in the gradual and slow advancement of Zionist policies in occupied Palestine and does not like Netanyahu\u2019s harsh and inconsiderate approach. In addition, since he was Obama\u2019s vice president, Biden has disagreed with Netanyahu, whose actions were against Obama. In addition, Netanyahu\u2019s alliance with the Republicans against Biden in the 2020 presidential election has made him pessimistic about Netanyahu.<\/p>\n
Despite this, in the long run, such an exchange of words will not weaken Washington-Tel Aviv relations at the \u201cstructural\u201d level. It will not affect the general lines and direction of the US foreign policy towards the Zionist regime. However, it will overshadow some unique relations between the White House and the Zionist regime.<\/p>\n
Two; although Biden\u2019s comments are considered the harshest words against Netanyahu by an American president in the past 75 years, it does not mean that the \u201cstrategic dimensions\u201d of the relations between the two sides are being questioned. Even today, the United States has the most important political, security, military, economic, etc., cooperation in the West Asian region with the Zionist regime.<\/p>\n
Biden\u2019s problem is with Netanyahu personally, not with Israel, so it is very unlikely that these verbal conflicts will spread beyond the level of politicians. Therefore, the main fight is between Biden and Netanyahu, not the US and Israel!<\/p>\n
Three, unlike in the Cold War era, in today\u2019s world, we no longer see \u201cstrategic alliances\u201d between the US and other countries, even its European and regional allies. The era of such coalitions is over, but the Zionist regime is an exception to this rule.<\/p>\n
Israel is the only regime with which Washington has a \u201cstrategic alliance.\u201d Even the change of governments in the US has not been able to disrupt the US’s security, political, economic, and military commitments towards the Zionist regime.<\/p>\n
Biden and his democratic government still consider themselves committed to providing and guaranteeing the security of the Zionist regime. Today, Biden still has the same opinion that he had during his representation in the Senate and the Obama administration; his famous statement that when he was a young senator, he said if he were a Jew, he would be a Zionist, but \u201cyou need not be a Jew to be Zionist.\u201d<\/p>\n
Four, Biden\u2019s recent statements against Netanyahu are not unrelated to Netanyahu\u2019s upcoming trip to China. Biden is \u201cangry\u201d about this. One of the main targets of this trip, for which a date has not yet been set, is to send a message to Washington that Israel has other diplomatic options to face criticism from the Biden administration and the Democrats. This is the same issue that has increased Biden\u2019s anger toward Netanyahu.<\/p>\n
Final point; it is quite clear that the US administration is \u201ccareful\u201d that its criticism of the extreme policies of the Zionist regime would not be directed at the whole of the Israeli regime. The Zionist regime \u201crelies\u201d on the US administration to advance its strategic targets, and different governments in the United States have always supported the strategic policies of the Zionist regime in the region, despite the differences in tastes. As such that, the United States would be in a different and difficult situation without Israel! In the words of Biden, \u201cIf there were not an Israel, we\u2019d have to invent one\u201d!<\/p>\n
Bezalel Smotrich, the Minister of Finance of the Zionist regime, whom Biden considers, along with Itamar Ben-Gvir, the Minister of National Security, to be part of the problem of extremism and conflicts in the West Bank, responded to Biden\u2019s statements and said he respected the president of the United States. Cooperation and relations between the US and Israel are stronger than in the past, and there are also differences of opinion.<\/p>\n
Israel remains the largest recipient of US military aid (4 billion dollars per year). In March 2022, in the second year of his administration, Biden allocated additional funding worth about 2 billion dollars for the defense system \u201cIron Dome\u201d!<\/p>\n
No group in the United States is as effective as the \u201cZionist lobby\u201d in \u201cdecision-making\u201d and formulating American regional and global policies. The existence of the Zionist lobby in different scenes of \u201cpolitics and power\u201d in the US is a \u201cstrong deterrent\u201d factor in preventing the weakening of the relations between the two sides.<\/p>\n
Therefore, it is simplistic if the verbal tensions between Biden and Netanyahu are interpreted as tensions between the US and the Zionist regime relations. Such an interpretation of Biden\u2019s statements is incorrect and contrary to the facts governing their \u201cstrategic relations.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Strategic Council Online – Opinion: It would be simplistic if the verbal tensions between Biden and Netanyahu were interpreted as tensions in the relations between the US and the Zionist regime. Such an interpretation of Biden\u2019s statements is incorrect and contrary to the facts governing their \u201cstrategic relations.\u201d
\nBarsam Mohammadi \u2013 Expert on regional affairs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":152181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13268,17,12726],"tags":[22347,13227,14775,14776,23706,35831,12870,37120,23288,13078],"class_list":["post-161310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-note","category-politics","category-10-en-2","tag-biden","tag-china-en-2","tag-israel","tag-netanyahu-en","tag-occupied-palestine","tag-us-foreign-policy-en-3","tag--en","tag-usa-zionist-regime-relations","tag-west-bank-en","tag---en"],"yoast_head":"\n