JERUSALEM, Israel—When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his advisers were discussing the plan to detonate explosives located inside pagers used by Hezbollah in Lebanon, some close to the Israeli leader encouraged him to give the Biden administration advance warning. Netanyahu refused.
“I said, ‘no,’ and we didn’t,” Netanyahu said, adding, “I didn’t read The New York Times that often, but why give them the advance?”
Netanyahu recounted multiple conversations, or lack of conversations, with the Biden and Trump administrations during a speech Sunday night at the Jewish News Syndicate International Summit in Jerusalem.
Less than two weeks after the beeper attack that killed nearly 40 people and left more than 3,000 wounded, Israel carried out a strike in Lebanon that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Again, ahead of the strike…
