Netanyahu Tries to Bolster Support at Home in Desperate Post Begging for More Weapons From U.S. to Kill Palestinians

White House benefits because it pretends that Biden isn't fully signed on to the genocide in Gaza.

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces new protests at home to end the Gaza genocide and bring home the hostages, pretended to be magnanimous in an X post on Thursday begging the U.S. for more weapons to continue the genocide in Gaza.

“I am willing to absorb personal attacks if that is what it takes for Israel to get the arms and ammunition it needs in its war for survival,” Netanayhu said, in response to reports that the White House was withholding 2,000-pound bombs for Israel to drop on UN schools.

Netanyahu said in an earlier video that he spoke with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a recent visit by Washington’s top diplomat and told him that “It's inconceivable that in the past few months, the administration has been withholding weapons and ammunitions to Israel.”

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Blinken, who has been called by Hamas as the foreign minister for Israel because of his perceived allegiance, responded to Netanyahu’s criticism: "We continue to review one shipment that President Biden talked about regarding 2,000-pound bombs because of our concern about their use in densely populated areas like Rafah. That remains under review. But everything else is moving as it normally would move to make sure Israel has what it needs to defense itself against a multiplicity of threats," Axios reported.

Alastair Crooke, the former British diplomat, told Andrew Napolitano’s “Judging Freedom” that Netanyahu benefits during public clashes with the White House.

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“Netanyahu, during the period of the Obama administration in Washington, was adept at blaming everything on [U.S. President Barack] Obama, and he went to war against him,” fighting the White House on the ground over the Iran Nuclear Agreement.

“And every time he thought President Obama, every time he fought him, what happened? His polls went up in Israel. He got more popular and powerful. And he does feel that he has huge power in the United States as the consequence of this, perhaps more power than even the White House.”

He said Netanyahu was likely pleased about the negotiations because it bolstered his support in Israel.

“Who’s preventing our victory? Who’s stopping us from getting rid of Hamas? Well it's not me, I want to do this. But who doesn’t want this, it’s the White House.”

The U.S. has been accused of complicity in genocide because of its near-unlimited support of Israel as it batters Gaza and imposes humanitarian aid restrictions that has the enclave on the brink of famine.

Scott Ritter, the former UN weapons inspector, told Judge Andrew Napolitano’s “Judging Freedom” podcast that one of the smart moves that Hamas made was to allow “Israel to be Israel” after the 7 October attack.

Ritter said Israel sold itself as the U.S. equivalent in the Middle East when he lived there in the 90s. He said one would think that when a country is the target of an attack like the one carried out by Hamas, the world would be “sympathetic,” but “Israel didn't know how to respond properly and – this is one of the genius moves of Hamas – by letting Israel be Israel.”

“This [Israel] was a murderous nation and it's only gotten more murderous and what's happened now, because of their genocidal policies towards the Palestinian people, is that the shroud that made Israel look like a nice, fuzzy little rabbit to be hugged has been removed and Israel's been exposed as the demonic nation that it is, and it's lost the support of the world it's losing the support of Europe and it's losing the support of the American people.”