"For months, Netanyahu and his government have consistently ignored American counsel as to how to prosecute the war in Gaza against Hamas after the Oct. 7 terror attacks. Biden and his aides were repeatedly frustrated by Israel’s widening war aims within Gaza — with a devastating impact on Palestinian civilians — even at the cost of a deal to free the remaining hostages.

Biden deemed Israel’s response “over the top” and did stop one shipment of American arms to Israel. But even as pressure grew from fellow Democrats to create distance from Netanyahu, Biden’s reflexive instinct was to support Israel despite the swelling humanitarian crisis. As his influence over Netanyahu shrunk, the president’s anger grew. Phone calls between the two men were increasingly turned into shouting matches, according to one of the officials and one other senior official not authorized to discuss private conversations. Biden told confidants that he did not believe his Israeli counterpart wanted a cease-fire deal, arguing that Netanyahu was trying to perpetuate the conflict to save his political future and assist Trump in November’s election, the officials said."

  • Diplomjodler
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    1412 hours ago

    Politico is left center? OK. Right. Sure buddy. Gotcha. This idiotic bot is just an embarrassment.

    • @[email protected]
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      fedilink
      22 hours ago

      Someone somewhere is making money from it, otherwise they’d take it down after everyone told them it’s trash. Enshitification knows no other reason.

    • @obre
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      48 hours ago

      You’ll notice any highly credible paper is listed as left center

      • Diplomjodler
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        68 hours ago

        Anything that is not a foaming at the mouth, goose stepping Nazi propaganda is considered left wing in present day US political discourse. Which is of course entirely not accidental and Ground News is very much part of the program.