Biden and Netanyahu’s fraught relationship hits new low after U.S. pauses weapons shipment
2024-05-11 09:01:28 source:CNBC
May 10, 2024
“It’s definitely an earthquake.”
That’s how American diplomat Richard Haass described the stunning declaration by U.S. President Joe Biden that his administration would stop supplying certain weapons to Israel if it went ahead with a planned invasion of Rafah in the Gaza Strip.
“This was building up for a while, and Rafah was the straw that broke the camel’s back,” Haass, former president of the Council on Foreign Relations and policy advisor during the George W. Bush administration, said in an interview with Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
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