Biden threatened with IMPEACHMENT for withholding Israeli aid as backlash intensifies and even his top Democrat ally says he told Netanyahu to ‘finish the job’ in Rafah

At least one Republican has suggested that Joe Biden should be impeached for withholding US weapons from Israel, and even the president’s key ally in the Senate has gone against him, saying the IDF must ‘finish the job’ in Rafah .

Sen. Chris Coons, a Democrat from Delaware, is a top surrogate for Biden on the world stage. His public break with Biden’s policies is almost unprecedented.

Coons talked about a telephone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the Senate floor on Thursday evening.

“You not only have the right to defend the Israeli people against Hamas, you also have the obligation,” Coons told Netanyahu. ‘You have to go after them. You have to finish the job. You must enter Rafah.”

Still, he called on Israel to offer Palestinian civilians a way out of Rafah.

“There are a million civilian refugees who have flown to the bottom of Gaza and are now running into the hard border with Egypt. And given that Egypt will not let any of them into Egypt, you need to give civilians an opportunity to leave Rafah before entering the country on a large scale, with a bombing campaign, a ground campaign to minimize civilian casualties and deaths to limit.’

Speaker Mike Johnson called the move a “betrayal” after he agreed to put his job on the line and put a $95 billion foreign aid package on the floor of the House of Representatives, including $26 billion for Israel.

That package was only adopted after six months of delays, as both sides could not agree on aid to Ukraine or border security provisions.

Senator Tom Cotton demanded that the House impeach President Joe Biden.

“Some people are saying Joe Biden is doing this for his re-election, which would be bad enough,” the Arkansas Republican said. “It would, I should add, also be grounds for impeachment.

He harks back to 2019, when former President Donald Trump was impeached for what his critics say was withholding aid from Ukraine for political campaign purposes.

Other Senate Republicans, who had successfully avoided the semi-annual battle of the impeachment inquiry in the House of Representatives, hesitated to make such a call even as they viewed Biden as a “propaganda tool” and a “mouthpiece for Hamas.

“I didn’t come here to talk about that, but given what they did to President Trump, I think you can make that argument,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told DailyMail.com during a news conference.

‘It puts the hostages at more risk, it makes the war last longer. It emboldens Iran at a time when the country needs to be brought under control,” he said, adding that it could also squander the US’s “last best chance for structural change in the Middle East.”

Coons later told DailyMail.com that the call to impeach Biden for withholding weapons from Israel is “ridiculous.”

“President Biden’s goal is to continue to support Israel’s security and prevent unnecessary civilian deaths,” Coons continued. “Former President Trump’s goal was to gain personal political advantage from the head of a partner country, so I don’t see the parallel.”

“Don’t go in there and do those stupid things…,” Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., said of Cotton’s impeachment idea.

The difference between Republicans and progressive Democrats’ views on Biden’s handling of the Israel-Gaza conflict couldn’t be more stark — as if they were talking about two different presidents.

Last month, 56 Democrats in the House of Representatives, including former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, urged the pause in a letter to Biden.

Progressives are calling Biden “genocide Joe” and saying he has “blood on his hands” for allowing the war to drag on for seven months before threatening to withhold aid.

Republicans, meanwhile, emphasize that Israel can do no more to prevent civilian casualties if it wants to eliminate Hamas.

“Israel does not want to kill even a single civilian,” Cruz said. “There is no army in the world that does more to protect civilians.”

Before the $26 billion aid package was passed last month, the US had given Israel $216 billion in aid since 1946. Most of that came from the $3.3 billion that the US donates each year in grants under the Foreign Military Financing (FMF) program. It is estimated that US financing accounts for approximately 15 percent of Israel’s defense budget.

The White House on Thursday reined in Biden’s comments about withholding foreign aid.

‘Everyone keeps talking about pausing arms deliveries. Arms shipments are still going to Israel. And they are still getting the vast majority of everything they need to defend themselves,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters.

Biden told CNN on Wednesday that hHe would stop more arms deliveries Israel as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launches a full-scale invasion of Rafah.

The Israelis reacted angrily and ceasefire negotiations have stalled. Netanyahu did not respond directly to Biden’s comment, but he posted a video on social media of a defiant speech he gave this week in which he said “no amount of pressure” will stop Israel from defending itself.

The president last week delayed the delivery of 3,500 bombs to the US ally in the Middle East. It was the first time he used his executive power to influence Israel’s approach to its war Hamas – after progressives begged him for months to do just that.

His words of warning on Wednesday were the most direct threat Biden has made against Israel during the seven-month war.

‘As a result of these bombs and other means, civilians have been killed in Rafah. They go after population centers. “I’ve made it clear that if they go into Rafah — they haven’t gone in yet — I’m not supplying the weapons,” Biden said.

But Kirby appeared to clarify the president’s position.

“As the president said, Israel has not yet launched such an operation. So he was talking about what would happen in the future if they did that. That is a choice that Israel will have to make. And we hope that this will not be the case,” he noted.

As a result, Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, called Biden a “mouthpiece for Hamas” and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, accused him of being “the most anti-Israel president this nation has ever seen.”

Cruz said Biden is “undermining Israel at every step.”

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, noted that it was Biden who drafted the additional funding request for Israel.

“Without any consultation, the government stopped the supply of essential weapons this weekend. It did not brief the Appropriations, Foreign Relations or Armed Forces committees. It was a unilateral decision.’

Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kans., accused Biden of pursuing a “schizophrenic national security policy.”

“He says he wants to help Israel, but he’s afraid of losing a handful of votes in Michigan.”

Just as Israel and Saudi Arabia were on the verge of normalizing relations, Hamas launched its attack on Israel on October 7, killing some 1,200 Israelis and subsequently leading to the deaths of more than 35,000 Palestinians in Israel’s counteroffensive.

Graham increased pressure on Biden to establish diplomatic ties between Saudi Arabia and Israel.

“I believe a Democratic president is best positioned to build on the Abraham Accords that went to Saudi Arabia. That would be a great achievement,” he said.

The Abraham Accords, brokered during the Trump administration, led to normalization between Israel and the UAE and Bahrain.

On Monday, the Israeli army warned about 110,000 civilians to leave Rafah, and tanks moved in hours later. It was not a large-scale invasion, but some worry one is imminent.

Israel has threatened a major attack on the area to defeat thousands of Hamas fighters it says are hiding there.