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President Biden called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to make changes in order to find a long term solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during a fundraiser in Washington on Tuesday.
This is a shift for Biden, who has mostly refrained from openly criticizing the Israeli leader and his policies since the Oct. 7 attack and signals growing disagreement about what happens after the war.
"I think he has to change, and with this government, this government in Israel is making it very difficult for him to move," the president said in remarks off-camera.
The president said the Israeli government "is the most conservative government in Israel's history" and doesn't support a two-state solution.
Biden warned that Israel is losing international support over the war in Gaza and therefore needs to change its policy.
Netanyahu has in recent days expressed renewed opposition to any role for the Palestinian Authority in governing Gaza after Hamas.
Netanyahu said both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, with whom his government is cooperating on security, want to destroy Israel during a hearing on Monday in the Knesset.
Biden and other senior members of his administration have said in recent weeks that the Palestinian Authority should make reforms but must be involved in any future solution for Gaza after the war.
