Outgoing US President Joe Biden recalled in an interview Thursday a conversation he had with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shortly after Hamas’s October 7, 2023, onslaught in which he told the Israeli premier, “You can’t be carpet bombing these communities.”

In an interview with MSNBC, he said that Netanyahu then countered that the US had used nuclear bombs in civilian areas in World War Two.

“I said: ‘But that’s why we came up with the UN,’” Biden recalled responding.

“And he made a legitimate argument, his perspective, and said, ‘Look, these are the guys that killed my people,’” Biden said, adding that he doesn’t believe Netanyahu held up negotiations to achieve a hostage-ceasefire deal with the terror group for his own political interests.

“I do think he’s in a position where, even now, it takes a lot of courage and to take on that coalition he has, because they could vote him out of office tomorrow,” the outgoing US president said.

Biden additionally said that Netanyahu “has to find a way to accommodate the legitimate concerns” of Palestinians for the long-term sustainability of Israel.

“And the idea that Israel is going to be able to sustain itself for the long term without accommodating the........

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