"Biden must lead: he cannot just telephone his friend Bibi, give counsel, and then, as has been reported, call him 'an asshole' behind his back.
Biden must present the Israeli public with a stark choice: a detailed regional plan with credible American guarantees or Netanyahu’s defiant isolation …."
The thing is that merely publically presenting that choice won't help. Netanyahu has control. Beiden acts to show that the choice is the only one possible.