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| Biden aides accuse ‘ungrateful’ Netanyahu of lying after PM blames ex-president for fallen troops |
| 2026-01-28 |
That’s laying it on a bit thick. To be fair, the Biden Politburo was not quite as nasty as they could have been in preventing Israel from defending itself and supporting Iran and its allies after 10/7, but that’s damning with very faint praise. [IsraelTimes] A top aide to former US president Joe Biden accuses Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of lying after the Israeli premier claimed that IDF soldiers lost their lives in Gaza as a result of an alleged arms embargo instituted by the previous administration.“Netanyahu is both not telling the truth and ungrateful to a president that literally saved Israel at its most vulnerable moment,” Amos Hochstein tells the Axios news site moments after the prime minister made the claim during a press conference. Hochstein was joined by fellow top Biden aide Brett McGurk, who told Axios, “That statement by Netanyahu is categorically false.” “Biden left office with a ceasefire in Gaza and hostages coming home, a ceasefire in Lebanon with Hezbollah defeated, Iran in its weakest position since 1979 after two failed missile attacks thanks to the deployment of US military forces and a coordinated response that destroyed Iran’s air defenses. His commitment to Israel’s security to include US military assistance was unwavering throughout the crisis,” McGurk says of Biden. Netanyahu has repeatedly accused the previous administration of instituting an arms embargo during the Gaza war — something Biden officials have long denied, arguing that Washington only withheld one shipment of high-payload bombs due to concerns they’d be used in densely populated areas, putting civilians at risk. Netanyahu made the accusation in an apparent effort to explain comments he made in an interview with The Economist during which he claimed that Israel lost soldiers in Gaza because of his “refusal” to “carpet bomb” cities before the IDF invaded them on foot. Critics of the premier pointed out that his Likud party repeatedly blasted political rival and former IDF chief of staff Benny Gantz for making similar comments to foreign press while explaining the Israeli military’s efforts to avoid civilian casualties. Netanyahu: Israeli soldiers lost their lives in Gaza because of Biden-era arms embargo [IsraelTimes] Leveling an incendiary accusation at the Biden administration, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu charges that some Israeli soldiers lost their lives in the war against Hamas because of what he says was an “embargo” that caused Israel to run out of ammunition. He does not specify how many soldiers lost their lives for this reason, or precisely when it happened. The prime minister does not directly name the Biden administration, but says that the embargo ended as soon as US President Donald Trump took office. Netanyahu has repeatedly accused the Biden administration of instituting an embargo on arms supplies to Israel, notably in June 2024. Biden has denied withholding arms from Israel, apart from a batch of 2,000-pound “bunker buster” bombs amid concerns about how they would be used in the IDF’s operations in Rafah at that time. At his press conference, Netanyahu says Israel paid “very heavy prices” in the war in terms of the loss of soldiers’ lives. While “part of that is what happens in war,” he says, part of it stemmed from the fact that “at a certain stage, we didn’t have enough ammunition.” Soldiers at the time were fighting in areas where artillery and air force weaponry had been used, but terrorists had remained in booby-trapped houses, he says. “Heroes fell” because they didn’t have the ammunition they needed, he charges. And “part of that absent ammunition was because of the embargo.” Netanyahu says he has resolved that this will never be allowed to happen again, and that is why he is determined to ensure that Israel has its own strong and independent arms industry. To that end, he says, he is aiming to shift the Israel-US relationship “from aid to partnership,” when it comes to weapons, with Israeli development and joint production, and that such a partnership could extend to allies, including India and Germany as well. He has prioritized establishing a robust domestic army industry “for maximal independence,” Netanyahu says, “so we don’t run out of weapons or ammunition, and in the hope that we won’t have to use them.” |
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