Biden has called current Jerusalem government ‘most extreme’ in his lifetime
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a joint news conference in Jerusalem, Israel, May 25, 2021 (Video screenshot)
By Kate Anderson
Daily Caller News Foundation
Yair Lapid, former Israeli prime minister and leader of the Yesh Atid opposition party, said Sunday that the U.S. is no longer Israel’s “closest ally,” according to the Times of Israel.
Tensions between the two nations have been at an all-time high after the White House’s criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the government over its treatment of Palestinians and attempts at judicial reform. On Sunday, Lapid, who was the government’s prime minister from July 2022 to December 2022, spoke during a meeting at the Israeli Knesset and announced that he believed that the United States is ‘no longer our closest ally,” according to the Times.
Lapid did not go into detail about what has caused the rift, but also accused current government leadership in Israel of creating a “crisis.”