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Senior Trump official to ToI on annexation bill: ‘The Israelis can’t treat us like we’re Joe Biden’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleJacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
Piling on the criticism of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government after the Knesset advanced legislation to annex parts of the West Bank while US Vice President JD Vance was in the country, a senior Trump administration official tells The Times of Israel, “The Israelis can’t treat us like we’re Joe Biden.”
Netanyahu regularly sparred with former US president Joe Biden during his administration, which ended in January, and was accused of seeking rifts with the Democratic White House for domestic political gain.
The decision by the senior US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, to draw a comparison to Biden also harkened back to another US-Israeli rift in 2010, under the Obama administration, when the Interior Ministry announced that 1,600 housing units would be built in a Jewish neighborhood of East Jerusalem while then-vice president Biden was in town.
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