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In an unusually open critique of Israeli leadership, US President Joe Biden said in an interview on CNN broadcast on Sunday: “This is one of the most extreme cabinets I’ve seen – and I go back to Golda Meir.”

The remark came in response to a question as to why Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not yet been invited to the White House.

Biden pointedly noted that President Isaac Herzog is scheduled to visit Washington next week, making it clear that it is Netanyahu whom he is avoiding rather than the Jewish state as such.

“There is a way that seems right to a man,
But its end is the way of death.” Proverbs 14:12

“Bibi, I think, is trying to work through his existing problems in terms of his coalition,” the US president said.

Those problems obviously include Netanyahu’s cabinet’s positions related to the Palestinians. The Biden administration has notably avoided meeting with ministers from the far-right coalition parties, the Religious Zionist Party and Otzma Yehudit.

Last month, Israel’s announcement that it intends to advance plans to build 4,600 homes in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) also drew sharp criticism from Washington.

Biden noted that he remains “one of those who believes Israel’s ultimate security rests in a two-state solution.”

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