United States President Joe Biden has been venting his frustration over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in recent private conversations, NBC News reported citing five sources involved in the matter.
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According to the report, Biden seeks to persuade Israel to change its military tactics in Gaza, and Netanyahu is seen as "an obstacle" in this process "giving him hell," in Biden's words.
"He just feels like this is enough, it has to stop" one of the sources said of the views expressed by Biden.
This is not the first report of such comments made by the US president regarding his Israeli counterpart. POLITICO earlier in February claimed Biden called Netanyahu "bad f**king guy." NBC News also says, according to three of the people directly familiar with his comments, at least once, Biden called Netanyahu an "a**hole."
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Asked about Biden's comments about Netanyahu, a spokesperson for the National Security Council said that "the president has been clear where he disagrees with Prime Minister Netanyahu, but this is a decades-long relationship that is respectful in public and in private."
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