Joe Biden's attack against Benjamin Netanyahu

After Hamas's October 7 Massacre, Joe Biden delivered his second speech from the Oval Office, In that speech, Biden stated emphatically that there wasn't a sliver of daylight between the U.S. and Israel (my words). That time is apparently history. At a Washington, DC, fundraiser Tuesday, Biden said "He's a good friend, but I think he has to change…This government in Israel is making it very difficult for him to move. Israel's security can rest on the United States, but right now it has more than the United States. It has the European Union, it has Europe, it has most of the world supporting it. But they’re starting to lose that support by the indiscriminate bombing that takes place."

Biden was doing fine (sort of) until that "indiscriminate bombing" line. That's a provocative thing to say that didn't need saying. IDF bombing often happens after they've dropped leaflets into neighborhoods telling Palestinian citizens that their neighborhoods were going to get bombed. That isn't indiscriminate bombing. That's the opposite of indiscriminate bombing. That drew this hot rebuke from PM Netanyahu:

Biden’s comments came as Netanyahu said in Israel he would block the Biden administration’s postwar plan to have the Palestinian Authority take over Gaza, the sharpest sign of Israeli pushback against the U.S. blueprint for administering the enclave after Israel’s invasion ends. "After the great sacrifice of our civilians and our soldiers, I will not allow the entry into Gaza of those who educate for terrorism, support terrorism and finance terrorism," Netanyahu said, referring to the Palestinian Authority, which currently oversees parts of the West Bank, in a statement Tuesday.

"I will not allow Israel to repeat the mistake of Oslo," he added, referring to the 1993 agreement that established the Palestinian Authority and which Netanyahu has long criticized.

NBC's Richard Engel reported on the Biden-Netanyahu flare-up:

Here's reporting from a more international perspective:

Biden's plan already faced opposition prior to Biden's comments:

The plan was already facing opposition from Arab governments and from Palestinian Authority officials themselves, who say they want Israel to halt its offensive in Gaza and withdraw its troops before they will agree to serious talks about postwar planning.

Israel’s position on who will replace Hamas in postwar Gaza may not become fully clear until elections that are expected to be held next year, when it will be decided whether Netanyahu survives as prime minister.

Replacing Hamas with the Palestinian Authority isn't real change. It's cosmetic change. If that's what happens to 'resolve' this fiasco, then it won't take Nostradamus to predict that we'll have the same problem within 3 years.

Joe Biden's reputation was that of a foreign policy expert. That reputation has been exposed. It's pretty apparent, too, that Biden's statements on the tight relationship between his administration and Israel is more spin than reality.