Today Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated criticism the

Biden administration calls untrue and unfair that the US has withheld

weapons Israel needs to fight the war in Gaza. The diplomatic spat between the Prime Minister

and the Biden White House comes as simmering tensions between Netanyahu and his

own military boiled over. Nick Schifrin is here with more.

Nick. For months, even years military over. Nick Schifrin is here with more.

For months, even years, military officials in Israel have often disagreed with Prime Minister

Benjamin Netanyahu, but most military criticism of Israel's longest serving leader is made anonymously or after retirement.

This week though, the Israel's Defense Forces top spokesman made public the military's concerns

about Netanyahu's repeated claim of total victory over Hamas.

The political echelon has to decide and the Israel Defense Forces will implement, but this business,

this business of destroying Hamas making Hamas disappear. It's simply throwing sand in the eyes of the public

If we don't bring something else to Gaza then at the end of the day we will get Hamas

So how significant is this public criticism

by the military of the Prime Minister?

And how does it play into the diplomatic tensions

between Netanyahu and the Biden administration?

For answers to that, we turn to Laura Blumenfeld,

a former senior policy advisor

on the State Department's Israeli-Palestinian negotiating team

and currently a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Laura Blumfeld, thanks very much.

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