Biden was glad-handing in the well of the House chamber after his angry address when Colorado Senator Michael Bennet (D) pressed him to keep pressuring Israel to declare a ceasefire in the Gaza war.
The president told Sen. Bennet he had recently talked to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and said, 'I told him, and don't repeat this, 'Bibi, you and I are going to have a come to Jesus meeting.'"
Gary Bauer of Christians United for Israel (CUFI) says it was highly inappropriate.
"Actually, in its own way, it's sort of an antisemitic statement, because he clearly isn't going to be presenting the gospel to Netanyahu," Bauer points out. "What he's saying is that he's going to pressure him to make decisions that are harmful for Israel but helpful for President Biden's reelection, and that's disgusting."
Under the guise of stopping what they call a genocide, the Left in the U.S. and around the world is demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, though the more likely goal is to allow the terror group Hamas to reorganize and rearm. As for Biden, Bauer says he has no real moral or ideological compunctions about the war. For him, it is all about November.
The conservative recalls that Donald Trump and Netanyahu had a great relationship that was beneficial to both the U.S. and Israel, "but obviously, Joe Biden puts his own reelection ahead of anything else."
Regardless, Bauer does not expect Bibi to yield to any threat Biden throws his way.
"Prime Minister Netanyahu was talking with a group of military people in Israel, and he alluded to the pressure he was under, and he said to them, 'I don't want you to worry. We'll do whatever we have to do for the sake of our country. We cannot stop until Hamas has been eliminated,'" the CUFI spokesman relays.
Netanyahu has consistently opposed establishing a Palestinian state throughout his political career, but Biden has reportedly expressed a private desire to make a trip to Israel to try to circumvent the prime minister and take his own opposing message directly to the people.
