In a striking critique, US President Joe Biden on Tuesday went after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and members of his hardline coalition over their opposition to a two-state solution, while warning that Israel was losing global support due to its “indiscriminate bombing” in Gaza.

Netanyahu is “a good friend, but I think he has to change, and… This government in Israel is making it very difficult for him to move,” Biden said during a campaign fundraiser in Washington hosted by former AIPAC board chair Lee Rosenberg.

In his remarks, Biden criticized far-right National Security Minister Ben Gvir by name and rehashed a line he used in July: “This is the most conservative government in Israel’s history.”

He said he has known Israeli leaders for decades, lamenting that “Ben Gvir and company and the new folks don’t want anything remotely approaching a two-state solution.”

“They not only want to have retribution — which they should — for what Hamas did, but against all Palestinians… They don’t want anything to with the Palestinians,” Biden said, reiterating the US stance that Hamas does not represent all Palestinians and that not all of Gaza should suffer because of the terror group’s brutal October 7 attack on Israel, during which 1,200 people were massacred and some 240 were taken hostage.

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