2024-01-20 00:52:26
Time.news – US President Joe Biden spoke with Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu: the White House announced it. This is the first interview since last December 23rd.
The phone call takes place at a time of strong friction between Israel and the United States, the Jewish state’s main historical ally; Furthermore, the personal relationship between the two leaders is notoriously difficult. According to the American executive who will publish the report of the conversation later, the leaders talked about the “latest events in Gaza and Israel“.
Netanyahu rejected a repeated request from Joe Biden, namely the two-state solution.
“Israel – said the head of government – must have control of security over the entire territory west of the Jordan. It is a necessary condition, in contradiction with the idea of Palestinian sovereignty”, he said, addressing Washington.
“We evidently see things differently,” responded National Defense Council spokesman John Kirby. The US is putting pressure on Israel, of which it represents its major diplomatic and military ally, both on its behavior in the war in Gaza, triggered by the Hamas attack on Israel on 7 October, and on its longer-term prospects after the conflict. The last telephone exchange between the two took place on December 23 and according to rumors in the American press it was closed by Biden with a dry phrase: “this conversation ends here”.
Tajani, ready for a peacekeeping mission
“If a peacekeeping mission is needed in Gaza, in a transition phase, we are ready to send our soldiers with the UN as bearers of peace.” This was told to Raido24 by the deputy prime minister and foreign minister, Antonio Tajani, who denied there is an American request to expand the Unifil mission in Lebanon, where over a thousand Italian soldiers are involved in the UN mission.
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