Relationship between Netanyahu and Biden 'absolutely terrible,' source says

Tensions are reportedly rising between President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they try to navigate a response to the large-scale terror attack by Hamas on Israel on Oct. 7.

While Biden has supported Israel's right to respond to the attack in an attempt to "annihilate" Hamas, both financially and rhetorically, he has become alarmed by the humanitarian crisis there among innocent civilians and is trying to broker a cease-fire agreement.

Netanyahu, for his part, doesn't want to hear any appeals for mercy when he has just seen 1,200 of his people butchered and another 200 hostages taken.

“These and other divisions are putting the entire ‘special relationship’ between the U.S. and Israel under pressure I have never seen before in my lifetime,” Hussein Ibish, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington, told CNBC. “The relationship [between Biden and Netanyahu] is absolutely terrible.”

The far-left wing of Biden's party is protesting against him for not doing more to help Gaza, and several hundred thousand voters in a number of states voted "uncommitted" or "no preference" in primaries the last two weeks to show their displeasure.

Gaza's health ministry, which is controlled by Hamas, claims that 30,000 have been killed in the region by Israel, but there is no way to know whether those numbers are accurate or grossly inflated.