{"id":87582,"date":"2026-11-15T09:22:19","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T14:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=87582"},"modified":"2026-11-15T09:22:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T14:22:19","slug":"even-biden-is-now-slamming-bibi-the-butcher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=87582","title":{"rendered":"<h1>Even Biden is now slamming Bibi &#8220;The Butcher&#8221;<\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot-2026-11-15-at-9.21.21-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"647\" height=\"466\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-87583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot-2026-11-15-at-9.21.21-AM.png 647w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Screenshot-2026-11-15-at-9.21.21-AM-300x216.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 647px) 100vw, 647px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/static-cdn.toi-media.com\/www\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AP24012824269404-e1758651057583.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" data-featherlight=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" title=\"Then-US President Joe Biden, right, hugs Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after arriving at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, October 18, 2023. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci)\" src=\"https:\/\/static-cdn.toi-media.com\/www\/uploads\/2025\/01\/AP24012824269404-e1758651057583-640x400.jpg\" alt=\"Then-US President Joe Biden, right, hugs Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after arriving at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, October 18, 2023. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci)\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"caption\">Then-US President Joe Biden, right, hugs Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after arriving at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, October 18, 2023. (AP Photo\/Evan Vucci)<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<div class=\"the-content\">\n<p>In snippets published Friday from his new memoir, former US president Joe Biden shared his frustration with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for what he said were repeated broken promises to take steps to mitigate civilian harm during the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Biden said his hopes for permanent peace in the Middle East were \u201cshattered\u201d with Hamas\u2019s October 7, 2023, terror onslaught that started the war, recalling how he called Netanyahu several times that day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted him to know my determination to ensure that a day like this would never happen again,\u201d Biden wrote in an advance copy of \u2018Promise me, America,\u2019 which was obtained by several US media outlets.<\/p>\n<div id=\"playvid360-passback\"><\/div>\n<p>Biden said that since the conflict began, he \u201chad been calling on Israel to take precautions,\u201d concerns that he said he relayed \u201cprivately in many conversations with Bibi,\u201d using Netanyahu\u2019s nickname.<\/p>\n<p>According to Biden, the premier \u201cacknowledged the damage that these rising casualties were doing to Israel\u2019s image, and to US support for the war,\u201d though \u201ca familiar pattern established itself: He would promise to do more, and then another aggressive action would follow, killing more civilians.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter newsletter-article\" data-website=\"timesofisrael\" data-from=\"In new memoir, Biden accuses PM of making repeated empty promises to reduce civilian harm in Gaza\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-article-inner\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-article-text newsletter-article-part\">Get The Times of Israel&#8217;s Daily Editionby email and never miss our top stories<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsletter-article-form-wrapper newsletter-article-part\">\n<form class=\"newsletter-article-form\"><label class=\"screen-reader-text\" for=\"newsletter-email-address\">Newsletter email address<\/label><input id=\"newsletter-email-address\" class=\"newsletter-article-input email-address\" name=\"email\" type=\"text\" value=\"\" placeholder=\"Your email\" \/><button class=\"submit newsletter-article-input\" type=\"submit\">Get it<\/button><\/form>\n<div class=\"newsletter-article-terms\">By signing up, you agree to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/terms\">terms<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWhen we called them on it, the Israelis always had an explanation or excuse, but the result was the same. Bibi had no qualms about making promises he had no power \u2014 or intention \u2014 to keep,\u201d Biden continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile I understood that he was working under severe pressures, I was frustrated by his failure to think like a statesman and safeguard Israel\u2019s long-term interests, not just his own short-term political needs,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3930533\" class=\"wp-caption  alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/static-cdn.toi-media.com\/www\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AP26312588697056.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-featherlight=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3930533\" src=\"https:\/\/static-cdn.toi-media.com\/www\/uploads\/2026\/11\/AP26312588697056-640x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palestinians walk through a tent camp housing displaced people amid buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes during the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza City, November 8, 2026. (AP Photo\/Jehad Alshrafi)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Biden also defended providing assistance to Israel even though it became deeply controversial among Democrats. Biden explained that he believed he had to \u201csupport America\u2019s interests and America\u2019s allies\u201d as president but said, \u201csince Netanyahu\u2019s return to power at the end of 2022, I felt that the work of protecting Israel meant protecting it both from its enemies and itself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe and I could be direct with each other, but there wasn\u2019t a ton of trust,\u201d Biden said of Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate response from Netanyahu to the passages from Biden\u2019s book. Israel has repeatedly stressed it seeks to minimize civilian fatalities and pointed out that Hamas uses Gaza\u2019s civilians as human shields, fighting from civilian areas including homes, hospitals, schools, and mosques.<\/p>\n<h3>Biden defends decision to seek second term, time in office<\/h3>\n<p>The new presidential memoir, set for a Tuesday release, serves the genre\u2019s usual purpose of providing an unapologetic defense of Biden\u2019s time in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Biden pulled no punches on Donald Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/joe-biden-in-new-memoir-trump-should-carry-the-weight-of-jan-6-riots-to-his-grave\/\">blasting him<\/a> for his election denialism, his role in the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol and blanket pardons of the participants.<\/p>\n<p>He also boasted about his lengthy legislative record and rejected criticisms that his policies intensified inflation and complicated the nation\u2019s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>He stood by the deadly US withdrawal from Afghanistan and credited himself with rehabilitating US international alliances that grew strained under Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Biden made no apologies for seeking a second term despite concerns about his age, even if that decision presaged Trump\u2019s second presidency. He complained that \u201cthe press and pundits kept talking about how weak I was\u201d despite no challenger emerging.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe primaries sent no warning signs that I was in trouble,\u201d he wrote. \u201cBut that couldn\u2019t derail the narrative setting in on my candidacy. That I was too old. That I was declining mentally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And then came one disastrous night on the debate stage in Atlanta.<\/p>\n<p>Biden said that he\u2019d questioned his team about the need to debate Trump at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not that I was concerned about my ability to debate Donald Trump,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was that he was so prone to lying with abandon, bullying the moderators, violating the rules, whining about even a hint of fact checking, that I didn\u2019t know whether there would be any value in my giving a public platform to this behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3320745\" class=\"wp-caption  alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/static-cdn.toi-media.com\/www\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-28-at-10.36.10-e1719560519742.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-featherlight=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3320745\" src=\"https:\/\/static-cdn.toi-media.com\/www\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-28-at-10.36.10-e1719560519742-640x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former US president Donald Trump (L) debates President Joe Biden (R) ahead of the 2024 US presidential election, June 27, 2024. (Screenshot via YouTube)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But Biden did lament in detail \u201cone of the lowest moments for me\u201d when he gave a nonsensical answer when discussing the deficit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI lost my train of thought, saw that my time was running out on the clock, and rushed the final part of my answer by blurting out: \u2018We finally beat Medicare,\u2019\u201d he recalled. \u201cWhat I meant to say was, \u2018We finally beat Big Pharma.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a reference to a deal negotiating drug prices for Medicare recipients, \u201ca historic achievement,\u201d Biden wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIronically, this historic achievement wouldn\u2019t lift my candidacy. It would help to sink it,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWhat should have been a highlight of the debate became Exhibit A that I was too old to do the job.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Biden thought he still could have won<\/h3>\n<p>Biden insisted the race was still winnable even after the debate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWas I old? Yes. Was I able to do the job? Yes. Were voters angry about inflation? Yes. Were they angry about immigration? Yes. All tough problems. But not insurmountable ones,\u201d he writes, adding that it was \u201cpersonally hard to take so many old friends turning on me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Biden recalled Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer telling him, \u201cI might still have five Democratic senators still supporting me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He told Schumer \u201che had a lot of gumption (I may have said it differently at the time), coming to my home and telling me to get out of the race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went to sleep on the night of July 20 having worked on a draft statement announcing his decision to drop out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBelieve it or not,\u201d he wrote, \u201cI slept well that night.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3357776\" class=\"wp-caption  alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/static-cdn.toi-media.com\/www\/uploads\/2024\/08\/AP24233173275011-e1724396937133.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-featherlight=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3357776\" src=\"https:\/\/static-cdn.toi-media.com\/www\/uploads\/2024\/08\/AP24233173275011-e1724396937133-640x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">US President Joe Biden, right, clasps the hand of his vice president Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois, August 19, 2024. (AP Photo\/Jacquelyn Martin)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h3>Biden reflects on Kamala Harris<\/h3>\n<p>Biden\u2019s election and his fate as a one-term president are tied inextricably to Kamala Harris. Although she was among the Democrats who \u201ctook their shots at me\u201d during the 2020 primary, Biden recalls being impressed by her.<\/p>\n<p>Biden often mentions Harris among the small group of advisers in the room for seminal moments and decisions, and he describes their relationship as warm. He praised her performance after she replaced him on the 2024 ballot.<\/p>\n<p>Harris \u201cwas a first-rate candidate,\u201d Biden writes of her 107-day campaign. \u201cShe performed masterfully in her debate with President Trump. She was great on the stump. She was a fundraising machine. I was proud of her and the campaign she ran.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/in-new-memoir-biden-accuses-pm-of-making-repeated-empty-promises-to-reduce-civilian-harm-in-gaza\/\">https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/in-new-memoir-biden-accuses-pm-of-making-repeated-empty-promises-to-reduce-civilian-harm-in-gaza\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87584,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87582\/revisions\/87584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}