President Joe Biden signed a $95 billion aid package for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan on Wednesday.
The president is facing mounting pressure over his support for Israel during its ongoing war in Gaza, but he brushed aside those criticisms.
“My commitment to Israel,” he said, “is ironclad.”
Biden has repeatedly green-lit aid to Israel and even twice bypassed Congress to deliver it. But despite the president’s unwavering support, not everyone in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is impressed.
“The U.S. is not projecting strength under [Biden’s] leadership, and it’s harming Israel and other countries,” Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli said in a radio interview in Israel. “He said ‘Don’t’ at the start of the war — to Hezbollah, as well as Iran. We saw the result.”
Chikli then weighed in on the presidential election in which Biden is set for a 2020 rematch with former President Donald Trump.
“If I were an American citizen with the right …