Critics: No way to treat pal, Joe

Critics pummeled President Biden over his response to the unprecedented escalation from Iran against Israel, blasting him for not addressing the public right away and being more supportive of the US ally.

Biden, 81, pushed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against carrying out a retaliatory attack against Tehran amid fears of such actions spiraling into a larger war, according to multiple reports.

This particularly animated his critics.

“I don’t agree with that,” Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) told CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday. “I just think we should follow and have Israel’s back in the situation.”

“I don’t agree with the president. That doesn’t change anything that he’s a fantastic president, and I’m proud to stand with him and campaign for him and vote for him.”

Fetterman stressed that Biden is “entitled to his own views” but he insisted, “I would never capitulate to the fringe.”

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) accused the administration of leaking Biden’s discussion with Netanyahu to the press in order to further pressure Israel against retaliation.

“There’s only one reason they leaked that, and that is that so when Israel does respond, the White House can say we told them not to do it,” he told CNN, while former US ambassador to the UN John Bolton told the news network, “If Joe Biden, as some press reports, have it, is urging the Israelis not to retaliate at all, he is an embarrassment to the United States.”