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David Milstein observes on X that the Biden-Harris administration has “engaged in unprecedented pressure and undermined Israel’s important military operations at virtually every step of the way.” Here are excerpts of what Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said yesterday in the Knesset as reported in a characteristically hostile Times of Israel story, this one by Lazar Berman:

Speaking nearly two weeks after the US election, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeatedly criticized the Biden administration’s judgment and policies at major junctions in Israel’s ongoing war against Iran and its proxies.

“The US had reservations and suggested that we not enter Gaza,” said Netanyahu. “It had reservations about entering Gaza City, Khan Younis, and, most critically, strongly opposed entry into Rafah.”

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“President Biden told me that if we go in, we will be alone,” Netanyahu said in the Knesset plenum. “He also said that he would stop shipments of important weapons to us. And so he did. A few days later, [US Secretary of State Antony] Blinken appeared and repeated the same things and I told him — we will fight with our nails.”

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Netanyahu also criticized US positions after Iran’s drone and missile attacks on Israel: “Again, we were told by our friend that there is no need to respond. And I said that sitting and not reacting is not acceptable, and we responded.”

The prime minister said that the Israeli response last month took out air defense batteries and “inflicted real damage on Iran’s ballistic missile production capability,” as well as targeting its nuclear program.

“It’s not a secret,” Netanyahu added. “There is a specific component in their nuclear program that was hit in this attack,” he said, without identifying the component, but saying that Iran’s path to a nuclear weapon was not blocked.

The prime minister said that Israel’s April strike was narrower, taking out one of four Russian-supplied S-300 surface-to-air missile defense batteries around Tehran, while in October, Israel destroyed the remaining three batteries and caused serious damage to Iran’s ballistic missile production capabilities and its ability to produce solid fuel.

Addressing attempts to reach a ceasefire in Lebanon, Netanyahu said that “the important thing is not the piece of paper.”

“In order to ensure security in the north, we have to take systematic action against Hezbollah attacks that could come,” he said. “This is not only our reaction, but our ability to prevent Hezbollah’s ability to build up its power.”

The New York Post’s Josh Christenson has more to the same effect based in part on Netanyahu’s secret meeting with an Israeli parliamentary committee reported by Israel’s Now14 (in Hebrew). January 20 cannot arrive soon enough.