Michael Moore Says Biden Is Being ‘Played Like A Sucker’ By Netanyahu In Israel-Gaza Conflict

Michael Moore is not holding back regarding his opinions of President Joe Biden and the Israel-Gaza conflict.

The Oscar-winning filmmaker excoriated Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday for his ongoing bombing offensive in Gaza, which has led to massive loss of life and continuing starvation, and slammed the Biden administration for funding it.

“There’s no getting around the awful truth: The United States is the Bank that is funding and arming the slaughter of children in Gaza,” Moore wrote Wednesday on Substack. “Netanyahu is a war criminal. This makes us his accomplices. THIS MUST STOP.”

“Biden has been played like a sucker,” he continued before quoting a surreptitious 2001 recording. “(As Netanyahu has said: ‘I know what America is. America is a thing you can move very easily.’) Bibi has taken advantage of a weakened Biden to commit his crimes.”

The footage in question was reportedly captured in secret as Netanyahu spoke in Hebrew about relations with former President Bill Clinton’s administration. The video was leaked in 2010 and strained an already-tense alliance with then-President Barack Obama.

Moore believes Biden has been just another fiddle for Netanyahu to play and decried Israel’s war chest being filled with billions in U.S. taxpayer money at the behest of an administration claiming to be “working around the clock” for a cease-fire in the bloody conflict.

“Our gov’t has given Israel $57 billion in cash, arms and future assistance since October,” Moore wrote Wednesday. “That’s $356 from each of us (via taxes) to fund their war on civilians…Your Daily Action #5 [is to] Make Amends for What is Done in Our Name.”

The “Fahrenheit 9/11” director urged readers to donate to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, a non-profit that aims to feed and protect the children in Gaza, who’ve comprised an estimated half of Palestinian fatalities since the Oct. 7 Hamas attack.

The Gaza Health Ministry announced last month that the death toll has surpassed 40,000. In an open letter to Biden and Harris in July, however, American doctors and nurses who volunteered in the area estimated those figures had likely already exceeded 92,000.

A study published in The Lancet journal at the time estimated that there have been “186,000 deaths in Gaza attributable to Israeli action since October 2023,” when the age-old conflict erupted anew following the killing of 1,200 Israelis by Hamas.

Moore was also one of the earliest voices who urged Biden to drop out of this year’s presidential race to make way for Vice President Kamala Harris. While he believes the newfound nominee can win, Moore fears her foreign policy will simply mirror Biden’s.

“She has condemned the Hamas massacre of Israelis on October 7th,” he wrote. “So have most Americans. But nobody signed up for this slaughter, the carpet bombings, the mass starvation of a civilian population. At least 40,000 dead! Nearly half of them babies and children.”

Moore added, “Killed by our weapons.”

Several subscribers have since denounced him in the comments — as Moore recently announced he’s “over the moon” about electing Harris as the “most progressive” candidate in U.S. history — for not withholding his support until she vows to end the conflict.

“Supporting the daily murder of children is not going forward,” he wrote. “It’s the same old story of men and their military-industrial complex getting rich off war. Of bullies occupying another people’s land — and claiming the Bible told them to do it!”

Moore continued, “What year is this? 1254 AD? Forward. WAY Forward. Please.”