The Israeli prime minister’s political obituary has been written before. But U.S. officials are already gauging potential successors.
U.S. President Joe Biden shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the 78th United Nations General Assembly in New York City. | Jim Watson/AFP/Getty ImagesJoe Biden and top aides have discussed the likelihood that Benjamin Netanyahu’s political days are numbered — and the president has conveyed that sentiment to the Israeli prime minister in a recent conversation.
“There’s going to have to be a reckoning within Israeli society about what happened,” said the official who, like others, was granted anonymity to detail private conversations. “Ultimately, the buck stops on the prime minister’s desk.” But the current U.S. official said that Netanyahu’s shaky hold on power is always “in the background” during internal Biden administration talks about the Middle East. And Biden aides already are engaging an array of other Israeli politicians — some in power, some not — on the war effort.
Spokespeople for the State Department and the Israeli embassy in Washington declined to provide comment for this story. Behind the scenes, however, Biden has been unsparing in his assessment of what he believes are Netanyahu’s undemocratic tendencies that, in part, distracted his government from being ready for the Hamas attack.
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