Biden tells Bennett that "Iran will never have nuclear weapons"

One of the few sweets that come with the position of prime minister of Israel is meeting alone with the president of the United States.

But for

, at the head of a party with only 6 of 20 Knesset seats and an unprecedented coalition made up of eight parties, it is a real political and media vitamin to be seen by his own as head of government.

Bennett has savored 50 minutes of intimacy in the White House with

this Friday

even if he has his head in the Kabul airport. In fact, the attack forced the postponement of the meeting scheduled for Thursday with the Israeli who dedicated his first words to the jihadist attack: "On behalf of the people of Israel, I want to extend our condolences.

It is the definition of will and sacrifice. Israel always unequivocally supports the US. "

Although he is aware that the current and highest priority of his great ally is Afghanistan, Bennett recalled Israel's number 1 priority in the last decade: Iran. Due to its armed presence in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Gaza and Lebanon and especially its

Tehran is at the center of the concerns of the Government, Army and Mosad.

and human rights violations in the world. As we sit here, the Iranians are enriching uranium and we must stop them," Bennett warned, adding: "We live in the toughest neighborhood in the world. We have to around us ISIS, Hezbollah, Hamas, Iranian militias, all of them want to kill Israelis. Therefore, Israel must be stronger and more firm than all its enemies combined. "

After reiterating "the commitment to Israel's security" and announcing aid for the rearmament of its Iron Dome defensive batteries, Biden said that at the meeting they will discuss "the threat from Iran and our commitment to guarantee that

". He clarified that for this his first option is diplomatic but added: "If it fails, we will be prepared to consider other ways."

Bennett shares the opposition of his former boss,

, to the Iranian nuclear agreement of 2015 and the return to it as Biden wishes after the withdrawal of Donald Trump, but it differs from his strategy against former President Barack Obama. "We bring a new spirit of cooperation from people who may think differently but work together and with good will," says the conservative leader.

Regarding the

The two leaders seem to agree in their disagreement, confirming that given the heterogeneous composition of the new government in Jerusalem, an annexation in parts of the West Bank is not expected, but neither is the two-state solution.

Hence, Bennett insists before Biden to focus only on measures to improve the economic situation of the Palestinians.

The United States understands the margins of action of the new Government and in order not to make it falter, it will refrain from massive pressure, as for example Obama did on Netanyahu with the colonies.

A strange couple, a similar fate

For Bennett meeting with the US president is an enormous achievement considering that

in the Knesset. For Biden it is also important because of the timing that marks the agitated withdrawal from Afghanistan since,

and accusations that he is abandoning his allies, he staged with the guest of Israel who remains committed to his old and close friends in the area. "It is an unbreakable relationship," he described.

"We have become close friends. He heads the most diverse government in Israel's history," said the American who has dealt with every Israeli prime minister since Golda Meir in 1973.

Bennett (49) and Biden (78), who had good chemistry, form a "strange couple." One of the youngest heads of government in Israel's history and the oldest tenant in the White House. But the Conservative premier and the "Democratic" president share a curious fate: They

in their political careers (one earlier than expected and the other later) thanks especially to deep internal divisions around his predecessors (Trump and Netanyahu).

The Biden Administration embraces the rotating Israeli Government -especially with which Yair Lapid will be Prime Minister from 2023- given that it has a decisive representation of the center-left and has achieved the departure of Netanyahu, who they identify with the Republican party and the closely with Trump.

For this reason, the meeting will also be remembered as the first since 2009 between an American president and an Israeli prime minister who is not named Netanyahu.

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