Biden yet to call Netanyahu after election win despite calls to challenger, Palestinian president - Fox News

President Biden has yet to telephone Benjamin Netanyahu and congratulate him connected his triumph successful this week’s Israeli elections, adjacent though interim Prime Minister Yair Lapid conceded defeat. 

A National Security Council spokesperson told Fox News Digital that President Biden volition talk with Netanyahu "soon," but avoided outright naming Netanyahu the premier minister-elect – alternatively saying that "Mr. Netanyahu, aft winning a plurality successful the Knesset, is apt to beryllium tasked with forming a authorities implicit the coming days."

"The president has known and worked with Bibi Netanyahu for galore years," the spokesperson added. "They worked intimately unneurotic erstwhile Netanyahu was premier curate past year, and they met again during the president’s sojourn to Israel successful July." 

Secretary of State Antony Blinken this week called Lapid to "commend Israel for its escaped and just elections, and to convey the premier curate for his partnership" arsenic good arsenic stress his concerns implicit the "heightened tensions" successful the West Bank. 

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But it was lone U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides who truthful acold has congratulated Netanyahu directly, saying Thursday that helium had a "good call" with Netanyahu and that helium looks guardant to "working unneurotic to support the unbreakable bond." 

Then-Vice President Joe Biden shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arsenic they present associated statements during their gathering successful Jerusalem March 9, 2016. (Reuters/Debbie Hill)

Biden and Blinken were swift to admit Brazil’s President-elect Lula da Silva adjacent though Jair Bolsonaro has yet to officially concede defeat, alternatively simply authorizing his main of unit to statesman the modulation process – and Blinken connected Friday called Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to sermon "joint efforts" to heighten Palestinian information and reaffirm the committedness to a two-state solution. 

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The disparity successful absorption to each effect sets an uneasy code for the medication going into the caller Netanyahu administration: A root acquainted with interior discussions told Fox News Digital that apical officials successful the medication are reluctant to admit Netanyahu won the election. 

President Biden is welcomed by Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid upon his accomplishment astatine Ben Gurion Airport. (Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images)

Part of that reluctance whitethorn subordinate to unease moving with far-right enactment person Itamar Ben-Gvir, who stands poised to instrumentality connected a salient relation successful Netanyahu’s caller administration. 

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Two officials told Axios this week that the Biden medication is "unlikely" to prosecute with Ben-Gvir, whom they labeled a "Jewish supremacist." Ben-Gvir has said helium wants to beryllium curate of interior security, giving him complaint implicit the constabulary and policies astir beatified sites successful Jerusalem.

Itamar Ben-Gvir, left, and Bezalel Smotrich be a rally with supporters successful the confederate Israeli metropolis of Sderot connected Oct. 26, 2022. (GIL Cohen-Magen/AFP via Getty Images)

Joel Rubin, a erstwhile lawman adjunct caput of authorities nether President Barack Obama, precocious told Fox News Digital that the "likely makeup" of the adjacent Israeli authorities volition contiguous "some stark challenges for American nationalist security." 

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"The Biden medication volition beryllium challenged to navigate this space, which volition necessitate adjacent coordination with Netanyahu himself, personally, arsenic helium attempts to negociate a challenging governing conjugation for Israeli-Arab relations," Rubin said.