Liberman says dialogue with US should be ‘behind closed doors,’ urges politicians to ‘shut their mouths’

Yisrael Beytenu party chairman Avigdor Liberman joins a host of reactions to US President Joe Biden’s decision earlier this week to hold up delivery of high payload munitions to Israel, cautioning fellow politicians to “shut their mouths.”

“There have been disputes with the US in the past, and we have never turned them into a public and publicized fight,” he writes on X, formerly Twitter.

He adds that Israel’s relationship with the US is “much more complex than the supply of ammunition, which can also be produced in Israel within a few months.”

“As such, the dialogue with our strategic ally must be conducted behind closed doors and away from the spotlight,” Liberman says.

The comments came after far-right minister Itamar Ben Gvir tweeted yesterday “Hamas [loves] Biden,” drawing a flood of criticism from Israeli lawmakers.

Washington’s decision to delay the shipment of bombs came amid concerns over  Israel’s plans to carry out an offensive in Gaza’s southernmost city of Rafah that the Biden administration opposes without new civilian safeguards.