WNAM MONITORING: Outgoing US President Joe Biden said that some 15 months ago, he urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to avoid carpet-bombing civilians in Gaza.
“You can’t be carpet-bombing these communities,” Biden told Netanyahu during a conversation shortly after the Gaza war started in October 2023, according to the outgoing president.
In an interview with MSNBC late Thursday, Biden said that Netanyahu countered that during World War II, the US carpet-bombed Berlin and dropped a nuclear weapon.
“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’,” added Biden, who has been speaking to the press and giving speeches ahead of his leaving the White House on Monday.
