Netanyahu, Biden speak on situation in Gaza

For first time in a month, leaders talk on developments in the region amid reports of growing tensions on Gaza's future; Prime Minister's Office says the two had a 'good conversation'
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The White House published a statement Friday saying that U.S. President Joe Biden spoke with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about "developments in Gaza and Israel." This marks their first conversation since December 23, with reports suggesting tensions between the leaders are escalating regarding the future following the war in the Gaza Strip.
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According to the Prime Minister’s Office, the two had a "good conversation," lasting for 40 minutes, during which Netanyahu "reviewed Israel's actions in various sectors and reiterated Israel's commitment to achieving the war’s objectives, including the return of Israeli hostages."
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בנימין נתניהו ג'ו ביידן
Joe Biden, Benjamin Netanyahu
(Photo: Yonatan Zindel/Flash 90, Reuters)
According to an NBC report published on Wednesday, the Biden administration is bypassing Netanyahu in plans for post-war Gaza, discussing the future of the Strip and the region with Saudi Arabia and other moderate Arab nations.
Quoting officials, the American broadcaster said the U.S. president had grown frustrated with Netanyahu as evidenced by the lack of communication between the two leaders in recent weeks after they had spoken regularly in the wake of the Hamas attack on October 7.
"The officials said the Biden administration is trying to lay the groundwork with other Israeli and civil society leaders in anticipation of an eventual post-Netanyahu government. In an attempt to work around Netanyahu," NBC News said in the report.
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U.S. Secretary of State Atony Blinken
(Photo: REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/Pool)
The U.S. has come out in support of Israel in its war and its objectives to eliminate Hamas as a military power and remove its leaders from their rule over the embattled Strip, but Netanyahu had rejected any discussions of negotiating an end to the Israel-Palestine conflict and the eventual establishment of a Palestinian State, a prerequisite for Saudi Arabia in a possible normalization deal with Israel and in its involvement in the rebuilding of Gaza without Hamas.
U.S. Secretary of State Atony Blinken, who visited the region for a fourth time since the war began, reportedly told Netanyahu that "ultimately there is no military solution to Hamas, according to the officials, and that the Israeli leader needs to recognize that or history will repeat itself and violence will continue." But, the officials said, Netanyahu was unmoved.
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This Arab Plan is a Plan for Hamas to restart the War
If there is no Military solution to Hamas with the present Israel plan to militarily defeat Hamas, then there certainly no solution to defeating Islamic Terrorism in Gaza and the West Bank by not using force against them! Therefore we can see that under these conditions, The Arab plan for a ceasefire lets Hamas remain in any Post War settlement. Thus Terrorism and Terrorist Militias would remain on the ground in Gaza and The West Bank. And the war could therefore be restarted at any point in the Future by The Arab States touting this plan. Thus this War in the Region would remain. Therefore this Saudi Plan is a plan for War. QED. Therefore, Carry on Israel until the Job is Done. And get rid of Hamas.
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