Obama and Netanyahu's verbal dispute on the eve of the election / What is the story?

Barack Obama's harsh criticism of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians and his emphasis on occupying other people's lands provoked Benjamin Netanyahu's angry reaction; The controversy that is on the eve of the Israeli parliamentary elections has once again brought the long-standing differences of these two politicians back to the top of the news.

Ambassador Arjan: Barack Obama's harsh criticism of Israel's treatment of Palestinians and his emphasis on occupying other people's lands provoked Benjamin Netanyahu's angry reaction. The controversy that is on the eve of the Israeli parliamentary elections has once again brought the long-standing differences of these two politicians back to the top of the news.

The differences between Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel, and Barack Obama, the former President of the United States, have returned to the spotlight once again on the eve of the parliamentary elections of this regime, which are scheduled to be held on October 27 (Aban). An election in which the competition is expected to be close.

According to Al Jazeera, the relationship between these two politicians was always tense during the years when both were in power, and now, nearly a decade after the end of Obama's second term, their differences have intensified again.

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In this regard, Netanyahu criticized the recent statements of the former American president without naming Obama. Obama previously said that the Zionist regime has lost its "moral superiority" in the way it deals with the Palestinians.

"When I was president, I said this directly to Netanyahu that at some point, to break this cycle, the more powerful party has more responsibility because of the power," Obama said at a meeting in Belfast on Tuesday.

He added: If Israel's logic is that, as the superior military and technological power in the region, it can guarantee its security by doing whatever it wants and occupying whatever it wants, without any concessions, then this approach may yield results in the short term, but it will ultimately be disastrous for it.

Another part of Obama's statements, which was widely reflected in the media of the Zionist regime, was related to the establishment of this regime in 1948. Obama said in this regard: "What cannot be denied is that they (Zionists) occupied other people's land and those people were expelled from their own land."

In response to these statements, Netanyahu published a video containing parts of Obama's statements and called it "regrettable".

The Prime Minister of the Zionist regime claimed: "Jews are not foreign invaders in the land of their ancestors. "Our history is not a colonial project and our land was not stolen."

He added: "This land is our homeland and its name is Judah." By using this name, Netanyahu referred to the term used by the Zionist regime for the southern part of the West Bank; The region that this regime has occupied since 1967.

Netanyahu had strong differences with Obama during his two terms as president, from 2009 to 2017; The differences that arose especially from the US government's policy towards Iran.

On the eve of parliamentary elections scheduled for October 27, Netanyahu once again claimed that foreign parties are trying to oust him from power. In this context, he targeted Zahran Mamdani, the mayor of New York, who is known for criticizing the Zionist regime, with verbal attacks.

Barack Obama's statements about the history of the Palestinian conflict and the Zionist regime have faced a sharp reaction from the Zionist writer Yuri Giler; In an article in the Jerusalem Post, the writer accused Obama of promoting views that he said could fuel anti-Semitic sentiment.

This Zionist writer also claimed that repeating the statement that the Jews "stole" the Palestinian land is one of the accusations that has fueled the conflict between the Arabs and the Zionist regime for decades.