Live Updates: Biden Said to Have Taken Firmer Line on Call With Netanyahu
The president is said to have warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel that he could put off growing pressure from the international community for only so long.
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In 2016, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. met in Jerusalem with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel.Credit.Pool photo by Debbie Hill
President Biden on Monday delivered a firmer message in private to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel than he has done in public, warning that he could put off growing pressure from the international community and from Congress to call on Israel to change its approach to Hamas for only so long, according to two people familiar with the call.
REVEALED: Rashida Tlaib told Biden on tarmac he can t give right-wing Netanyahu billions each year to bomb schools with US-supplied weapons and said Palestinian human rights are not a bargaining chip
President Biden held an intense, nearly eight-minute long conversation with Rep. Rashida Tlaib on the tarmac when he arrived in Dearborn, Michigan
Tlaib has been critical of Biden s handling of the Israel-Hamas conflict, but declined to reveal what she said
Palestinian-American Tlaib still has family - including her 90-year-old grandmother - living in the West Bank
She has been critical of his handling of the Israel-Hamas violence and accused him of folding to Netanyahu
McCarthy Announces Opposition to Jan. 6 Commission
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The top House Republican said he could not support an inquiry into the attack on the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob because it would not examine unrelated “political violence” associated with the left. Representative Rashida Tlaib urged President Biden to end his support of Israel amid its bombing campaign against Hamas.
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Protestors at the Capitol as they breached the doors on Jan. 6.Credit.Jason Andrew for The New York Times
Representative Kevin McCarthy, the top House Republican, said on Tuesday that he would oppose an independent commission to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, denouncing the proposed bipartisan inquiry into the deadliest attack on Congress in centuries because it would not examine unrelated “political violence” associated with the left.