|
2023-07-18 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
|
|
After 7 month wait, Biden invites Netanyahu to meet in US in ‘warm’ call with PM
|
[IsraelTimes] But Israeli readout notably avoids specifying that meeting will take place at White House, leaving opening for September sit-down at UN.
US President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. S You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier ...
invited Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to meet him in the US during a Monday phone call, after seven months of refraining from making such an offer due to Washington’s ongoing displeasure with the judicial overhaul and Jerusalem’s policies in the West Bank.
Continued from Page 2
But the Prime Minister’s Office notably did not state that the meeting would take place at the White House, as Netanyahu likely had hoped. Speculation has grown in recent weeks that the two could sit down on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly high-level week in September, when both leaders are expected to be in New York.
The invitation was extended during a "warm and long" phone call, Netanyahu’s office said. It was the first time the two had spoken in four months. The prime minister accepted the invitation and the leaders agreed that their staffs would work to coordinate a date.
Netanyahu updated Biden on the legislation his coalition is looking to pass next week that will curtail judicial oversight over the reasonableness of governmental decisions, the Israeli readout said. The opposition fiercely opposes the bill, but Netanyahu told Biden he aims to use the summer parliamentary recess to whip more support for remaining parts of the coalition’s judicial overhaul.
He made similar assurances to the White House after he agreed to pause the overhaul legislation in late March in order to engage in negotiations with the opposition brokered by President Isaac Herzog that sought to reach compromises on judicial reform.
But those talks fell apart last month and the Netanyahu government decided to move ahead with the overhaul unilaterally, starting with the "reasonableness" legislation. The decision has revamped widespread protests across Israel that have begun to spread into the military, where hundreds and possibly thousands, of active reservists in some of the IDF’s most elite units are threatening to stop volunteering if the overhaul continues to advance.
During the Monday call, Netanyahu and Biden also discussed advancing measures to restore calm in the West Bank via the regional meetings that Israel and the Paleostinian Authority have held this year in Aqaba, Jordan and Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, according to the Israeli readout. A third meeting was supposed to take place in the spring but never materialized amid further deteriorations in Jerusalem’s ties with Ramallah.
The two leaders also discussed efforts to expand Israel’s integration in the region and to combat the Iranian nuclear threat, Netanyahu’s office said. A readout from the White House was not immediately available.
While direct engagement with Netanyahu ostensibly indicates a desire by Washington to calm the waters, after Biden last week called members of the Israeli government some of the "the most extreme" he has ever seen, the Axios news site said the US president was planning to use the call in order to raise concerns regarding Jerusalem’s renewed advancement of its judicial overhaul.
Monday’s conversation was the third between the two leaders since Netanyahu returned to power on December 29. The last time they spoke was in March when Biden also raised alarm regarding the overhaul.
The US has spoken out against the legislative package aimed at radically curbing the High Court of Justice’s powers, saying such fundamental reforms should only be passed with broad support and must maintain the strength of Israel’s democratic institutions.
The overhaul is what led Biden to announce in late March that Netanyahu would not receive an invite to the White House in the "near term." But during a CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network , now who know what it might stand for...
interview last week the president appeared to focus his concern on the hardline nature of the government as well as its policies in the West Bank, where it has advanced more settlement construction in six months than any government has in a calendar year, all while failing to clamp down on settler violence and wildcat Israeli construction that the US views as inhibiting prospects for a two-state solution.
The call came a day before Herzog will land in Washington and meet Biden at the White House for the second time in less than nine months. That visit is an apparent signal that the administration believes the US relationship with Israel transcends the government of the day.
Earlier Monday, Opposition leader Yair Lapid declared that "the United States is no longer our closest ally" due to the Netanyahu government’s "disastrous" policies.
And on Sunday, Channel 13 reported that Netanyahu recently lashed out at Israel’s Ambassador to the US Michael Herzog during a Jerusalem meeting last week, over the government’s strained ties with the Biden administration.
The report cited diplomatic sources saying Netanyahu is displeased by President Herzog’s trip and told the ambassador — the president’s brother — that he believed it would offer the White House legitimacy to avoid inviting the premier in the near future.
|
Posted by trailing wife 2023-07-18 00:00||
||
Front Page|| [11132 views ]
Top
|
|
Posted by NN2N1 2023-07-18 05:15||
2023-07-18 05:15||
Front Page
Top
|
|
Posted by NN2N1 2023-07-18 05:24||
2023-07-18 05:24||
Front Page
Top
|
|
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-07-18 07:35||
2023-07-18 07:35||
Front Page
Top
|
|
Posted by Besoeker 2023-07-18 07:50||
2023-07-18 07:50||
Front Page
Top
|
|
Posted by Deacon Blues 2023-07-18 11:13||
2023-07-18 11:13||
Front Page
Top
|
|
Posted by NoMoreBS 2023-07-18 12:06||
2023-07-18 12:06||
Front Page
Top
|
|
Posted by Frank G 2023-07-18 12:26||
2023-07-18 12:26||
Front Page
Top
|
|
Posted by trailing wife 2023-07-18 14:49||
2023-07-18 14:49||
Front Page
Top
|
|
09:43 Mullah Richard
09:27 Warthog
09:11 Mercutio
09:07 AlmostAnonymous5839
08:52 Matt
08:24 Matt
08:20 SteveS
07:43 Procopius2k
07:42 BrerRabbit
07:42 Procopius2k
07:39 Procopius2k
07:36 Procopius2k
07:35 Procopius2k
07:34 trailing wife
07:31 Procopius2k
07:30 NN2N1
07:22 NN2N1
07:18 trailing wife
07:14 Richard Aubrey
07:10 NN2N1
07:09 Besoeker
07:03 NN2N1
06:58 NN2N1
06:58 Besoeker
|
