Netanyahu makes it clear: Biden is no longer in charge

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. ”The Syrian army abandoned its positions in the area around the negotiated Israeli-Syrian buffer zone, which potentially creates a vacuum that could have been filled by terrorist organizations that would threaten the state of Israel, would threaten civilians inside Israel,” said State Department spokesman Matt Miller on Monday, though he didn’t give any evidence of those groups having attempted to move in. He’d go on to say that “this is a temporary action that they have taken in response to actions by the Syrian military to withdraw from that area,” while adding that the Biden administration, which has a little more than a month left in office, would be “watching what steps take in the coming weeks”. I can say, on behalf of the United States, we’re going to discuss this with them privately before I opine publicly,” Miller said at Tuesday’s briefing..@SMArikat: Why are you not talking about what Israel is doing to Syria Miller: I will let Israel speak to its own operations, we’re gonna discuss it privately Said: Would you call on Israel to cease and desist from its military attacks on Syria Miller: I think it’s… pic.twitter.com/6djtToAL6x — Assal Rad December 10, 2024 The agency spokesman was grilled in response by Al-Quds News Service reporter Said Arikat, who questioned whether allowing Israel’s military to “conquer” the Golan was a “private matter”, using Miller’s verbiage. Miller would parry the question by stressing the need to “ascertain what they are doing” before commenting on the matter — a difficult prospect given that he had defended the Israeli military’s claim that the occupation was “temporary” just a day earlier, before the admission from the prime minister’s office that it may very well be permanent.