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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
John Bowden

Netanyahu makes it clear: Biden is no longer in charge

Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu have been consistently and publicly at odds over a strategy for ending terror threats to Israel and creating a lasting peace in the region. - (AFP/Getty/Reuters)

Is Joe Biden still calling the shots in the Middle East? That certainly doesn’t seem to be what Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s Trump-loving prime minister, is saying.

Washington awoke this week to news that broke early Sunday morning of the fall of the Assad regime — an end to one of the most murderous and oppressive dictatorships in the world, one that had persisted since the 1970s through consecutive US administrations which opposed it.

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