According to the book War by Bob Woodward | Joe Biden would have called Benjamin Netanyahu a “liar”

(Washington) For American President Joe Biden, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be a “liar”, “only interested in his political survival”, reports a forthcoming book by veteran journalist Bob Woodward, whose good papers were revealed on Tuesday by American media.

A behind-the-scenes chronicler of the White House for half a century for the Washington PostBob Woodward revealed with Carl Bernstein the Watergate scandal which led to the resignation of President Nixon in 1974.

In his book Warto be published on October 15, it describes in particular the vain efforts of President Joe Biden to stop the war waged by Israel in the Gaza Strip after the deadly Hamas attack on October 7, 2023.

Since the start of the conflict, American diplomacy has shown its powerlessness to influence the way in which its ally conducts the war.

According to the book, during a telephone conversation in April, Joe Biden asked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu what his strategy was.

“We must return to Rafah,” replied the Israeli leader. “Bibi, you have no strategy,” retorted Joe Biden, using the nickname of the Israeli leader.

The American president then allegedly complained to his advisers, saying that the Israeli prime minister was a “liar”, “only interested in his political survival”.

At the beginning of September, Joe Biden publicly estimated that Benjamin Netanyahu was not doing enough to reach an agreement for the release of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

Despite his recriminations, the American president has so far refused to use the leverage of the delivery of weapons to Israel to influence the policy of Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, apart from suspending a delivery of bombs in may.

According to the Washington PostVice President Kamala Harris makes a few appearances in Bob Woodward’s story, supporting Joe Biden’s positions, but with a non-determining role for his foreign policy.

In July, following a meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu, Kamala Harris adopted a severe tone on the way in which the conflict was being led by Israel in Gaza, promising not to “remain silent” in the face of the suffering of the Palestinians.

Public declarations which contrasted with the tone of the discussions in private, where the approach was much more cordial, advance War. The contrast in the comments of the Democratic presidential candidate on November 5 would have provoked the astonishment and anger of Benjamin Netanyahu, according to Bob Woodward.

Trump secretly sent COVID-19 tests to Putin in 2020

Donald Trump secretly sent COVID-19 tests to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin while in the White House and in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, when the United States ran out of them, new book reveals forthcoming from Bob Woodward, American journalism legend.

In his new book Warto be published on October 15, he also writes that Donald Trump has maintained a personal relationship with Vladimir Putin, despite the Russian invasion of Ukraine and while he aims to return to the White House.

According to the account of the American media who had access to the book, Vladimir Putin received the anti-COVID-19 tests and begged Donald Trump not to say anything: “I don’t want you to tell anyone, people will be angry with you, not with me,” the Russian president reportedly told him.

According to an anonymous advisor, Donald Trump has spoken to Vladimir Putin in secret up to seven times since he left the White House in 2021. In early 2024, he asked an aide to leave his office. the Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida, to have a telephone conversation with the Russian president.

“None of these stories fabricated by Bob Woodward are true, it is the work of a truly insane and unbalanced man,” responded Steven Cheung, one of the spokespersons for the Republican candidate in a statement. the presidential election, saying that the book “could serve as toilet paper”.

Donald Trump’s Democratic rival expressed her indignation. “Everyone in America was struggling to get kits […] and this guy sends them to Russia, to a murderous dictator, for his personal use? »

“This is just the latest and greatest example of who Trump is,” the vice president added.

These revelations once again shine the spotlight on the relationship established by Donald Trump with Russia and risk reinforcing fears for the fate of Ukraine in the event of the Republican’s return to the White House.