US President Joe Biden congratulated Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday for his return to the head of the Israeli government and assured that he will continue to defend the two-state solution for relations between Israel and Palestine.
In a statement, Joe Biden said he wants to work with the man who previously served as Prime Minister of Israel between 1996 and 1999 and then between 2009 and 2021, “to face together the many challenges and opportunities facing Israel and the Middle East, including threats from Iran.”
Benjamin Netanyahu took office on Thursday as Israel’s prime minister, forming a government with right-wing support.
In the past, your Relations with the United States were at times turbulent.mainly under the mandates of Barack Obama.
In his statement, Joe Biden also reiterated the United States’ position on the issue of relations between israel and palestine.
Israeli parliament approves new right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu
“The United States will continue to support a two-state solution. and oppose policies that threaten sustainability or contradict shared interests and values,” the US president clarified.
In early December, the head of US diplomacy, Antony Blinken, had warned that the United States would oppose the establishment of new settlements by the incoming Israeli government in the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli parliament (Knesset) ratified on Thursday the new government led by Benjamin Netanyahu, formed with his ultra-Orthodox and far-right partnersand Netanyahu was later sworn in.
The most right-wing government in the history of Israel was approved with the favorable vote of a majority of 63 deputies from the six parties that make up the coalition, three of which are openly racist and Jewish supremacists, according to the Spanish news agency EFE.
The mission of the government will be “hinder Iran’s efforts to acquire a nuclear arsenal”Netanyahu said, quoted by the French agency AFP.
Netanyahu also said that his executive intends to “ensure Israel’s military superiority in the region” while seeking to “broaden the circle of peace” with Arab countries.
The new executive should meet for the first time this afternoon.
In Brussels, the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, congratulated Netanyahu and urged him to work together with the European Union for peace in the Middle East and face the consequences of the war in Ukraine.
“We look forward to working to strengthen our partnership, promote peace in the Middle East, and weather the shockwaves of Russia’s war against Ukraine,” von der Leyen said on Twitter.
Source: Observadora
