{"id":2351791,"date":"2024-10-07T17:19:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T21:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-didnt-call-netanyahu-on-first-anniversary-of-oct-7-attack-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T17:19:43","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T21:19:43","slug":"biden-didnt-call-netanyahu-on-first-anniversary-of-oct-7-attack-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-didnt-call-netanyahu-on-first-anniversary-of-oct-7-attack-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden didn&#8217;t call Netanyahu on first anniversary of Oct. 7 attack &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-didnt-call-netanyahu-on-first-anniversary-of-oct-7-attack-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2351791&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On the first anniversary of the October 7 attacks on Israel, President Joe Biden did not make a call\u2063 to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, marking a continuation of their\u2062 strained relations since\u200d their last conversation on August 21. Instead, Biden spoke with Israeli President \u200bIsaac Herzog to express \u2064condolences, \u200dwhich was defended\u200b by White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. She emphasized that the conversation was significant, focusing on memorializing the lives lost during the \u2064attacks.<\/p>\n<p>The ongoing conflict in Gaza has intensified, involving militant\u200d group Hezbollah from\u2064 Lebanon, and Israel \u2064has\u2063 conducted strikes in both southern Beirut and northern Gaza. As\u200d tensions rise, critics of Netanyahu claim he \u200dhas complicated efforts to negotiate a ceasefire, while Biden&#8217;s critics argue\u2062 he lacks the influence to affect\u200b Netanyahu&#8217;s decisions. \u200cNevertheless, \u200bJean-Pierre assured that Biden and Netanyahu would communicate soon\u200c and highlighted their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-has-yet-to-call-israels-netanyahu\/\" title=\"Biden Has Yet To Call Israel\u2019s Netanyahu\">long-standing relationship<\/a>, stating that Biden \u200chas maintained regular \u200ccontact with the Israeli government. Despite the lack of direct communication with Netanyahu on this particular occasion, the administration\u200c remains focused on negotiating a ceasefire to secure the release of \u2064hostages.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Biden didn&rsquo;t call Netanyahu on first anniversary of Oct. 7 attack on Israel<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1778750\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Even the first anniversary of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hamas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hamas<\/a>&lsquo;s Oct. 7 terrorist attacks on Israel wasn&rsquo;t an occasion for President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Joe Biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> to thaw relations with Israeli Prime Minister&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/benjamin-netanyahu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Biden and Netanyahu have not spoken since Aug. 21. Israel&rsquo;s war against Hamas in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/gaza\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gaza<\/a>&nbsp;has continued to expand, now including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hezbollah\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hezbollah<\/a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/lebanon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lebanon<\/a>. Israel, over the weekend, conducted strikes in southern Beirut, Lebanon, and northern Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>Biden called Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Monday, but not Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What you saw the president do is honor and commemorate lives that were lost,&rdquo; White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Monday in defense of the decision. &ldquo;The president called President Herzog because he believed it was [the] appropriate person for the president to call to express his condolences. It was a meaningful and important conversation, and so that&rsquo;s what they spoke about. It was focused on commemorating this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-16-and-pregnant-star-jordan-cashmyer-dead-at-26-our-hearts-are-truly-broken\/\" title=\"Former \u201816 And Pregnant\u2019 Star Jordan Cashmyer Dead At 26: \u2018Our Hearts Are Truly Broken\u2019\">incredibly sad day<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>With Netanyahu critics blaming the prime minister for complicating a possible Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal and Biden critics contending the president no longer has the political capital to influence Netanyahu or conflict, Jean-Pierre underscored there would be a call between the pair &ldquo;shortly.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;They have a decadeslong relationship, and in those conversations that they do have, it&rsquo;s very honest, it&rsquo;s very frank, and that will continue,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;We believe the best chance at getting these hostages home is through a ceasefire deal. That&rsquo;s what the president is directing his team to continue to work on, and that&rsquo;s going to be our focus.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jen-psaki-says-shed-be-happy-to-take-on-kayleigh-mcenany-on-fox-news\/\" title=\"Jen Psaki Says She\u2019d Be \u2018Happy\u2019 To Take On Kayleigh McEnany On Fox News\u00a0\">press secretary added<\/a> that Biden and Netanyahu have &ldquo;spoken more than a dozen times in the past year, and they&rsquo;ve seen each other.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The president&rsquo;s team has been in touch regularly, regularly, practically daily, with the Israeli government,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;So we&rsquo;ve been in close communication and close contact, and that continues.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Last week, during Biden&rsquo;s first appearance in the White House briefing room, the president urged Netanyahu to &ldquo;remember&rdquo; that &ldquo;no administration has helped Israel more than [his].&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What I know is the plan that I put together received the support of the U.N. Security Council and the vast majority of our allies around the world as a way to bring this to an end,&rdquo; Biden said. &ldquo;The Israelis have every right to respond to the vicious attacks on them not just from the Iranians but from the &mdash; everyone from Hezbollah to the Houthis to &mdash; anyway. But the fact is that they have to be very much more careful about dealing with civilian casualties.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As Israelis held memorial services and demonstrations around their country one year from Oct. 7, Netanyahu described facing attacks from seven fronts. At the White House, Biden participated in a yahrzeit candle lighting ceremony. Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Kamala Harris<\/a> and second gentleman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/doug-emhoff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Doug Emhoff<\/a>, who is Jewish, similarly planted a pomegranate memorial tree on the grounds of her residence in honor of the victims.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1778750\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1778750\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden skipped calling Netanyahu on the Oct. 7 attack anniversary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2652,"featured_media":2351792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/karine-jean-pierre-white-house-1-scaled-1024x682.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4143,3620,6524,42521,32076],"class_list":["post-2351791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-anniversary","tag-biden","tag-netanyahu","tag-oct-7-attack","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/karine-jean-pierre-white-house-1-scaled-1024x682.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2351791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2351792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2351791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2351791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2351791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}