By: Stephanie Frost
Ancient Jewish prophecies lull Biden to sleep, Prime Minister Bennett thanks President Biden for not interrupting.
Washington D.C.- President Biden met with new Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Friday afternoon in the oval office. The meeting was originally scheduled for Thursday but was changed to Friday after 13 United States servicehumans lost their lives to Covid during suicide bombings at the Kabul Airport. The re-scheduled meeting had to take place during the President’s naptime because Bennett, an Orthodox Jew had to honor the sabbath.
For the first time in over 12 years, when the Israeli Prime Minister met with the White House, it was someone other than Benjamin Netanyahu. The meeting felt like a first date for both parties, and Biden was playing hard to get. When PM Bennett read a passage from the Book of Isiah, President Biden was uninterested, closing his eyes and pondering maple walnut ice cream, or as he likes to call it “mee-mee”. President Biden is not a big fan of the Old Testament, as he prefers the “Pazims” which of course is Deleware slang for the Book of Psalms.
“We’ve become really close friends,” Biden said, though he’d only just met the Prime Minister for the first time. It was the very first encounter the two of them ever had, which was rare for the elder statesman (President Biden first met Netanyahu in the ’80s). Although this was the first time Bennett and Biden had met, it didn’t take long for President Biden to forget his name.
The two government leaders discussed many topics including Iran’s nuclear aspirations, conflicts in the Gaza strip, and resetting ties between Israeli and American intelligence agencies. President Biden ensured Prime Minister Bennett that The United States was just as committed to curtailing Iran’s nuclear aspirations as we were in 2016 when we gave them 1.3 billion dollars.
“We’re putting dippin’ dots first, and if dippin’ dots fail, we’re ready to turn to other options,” he said without elaborating.
“We can only speculate what President Biden meant by this statement, but it is our estimation he meant that if diplomacy fails, we may try sprinkles or hot fudge,” one US official said after the meeting.
Biden has said he wants to focus American foreign policy away from places that don’t hand his pornstar turned artist son Hunter duffle bags of cash, to places like China, Ukraine, and Russia, who pay handsomely for his son’s series of Lizard drawings. The President has not prioritized Middle Eastern conflicts as a result.
When conflict erupted between Israel and militants in Gaza this spring, President Biden begrudgingly and reluctantly helped broker a ceasefire between the two groups. “Come on man,” he said, in what is being called the most powerful, profound, and moving three-word speech in Presidential history. Major breakthroughs on this front are not expected as a result of this meeting.
Stephanie Frost
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