US President Barack Obama has told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that Washington would “reassess” US-Israeli diplomatic relations after Netanyahu made it quite clear that there would be no Palestinian state on his watch,
a pre-election claim he seemed to back away from during a televised interview.
“We’re allies; we have to consult each other, not have fiats or unilateral imposition, but negotiated peace with our neighbours and support between allies. And America has no greater ally than Israel and Israel has no greater ally than the United States,” said Netanyahu on NBC News.
The White House, unmoved by Netanyahu’s effort to backtrack, delivered a fresh rebuke against him.
“We’ll have to sort of see what sort of policy and priorities the prime minister chooses but we certainly are in a position to evaluate our approach to these issues given that the prime minister essentially backed away from commitments that Israel had previously made to this (peace) effort,” said J