Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cancellation of a meeting with US President Barack Obama underlines the growing differences between the two leaders, says a political commentator in Los Angeles.
Netanyahu has declined an offer to meet Obama at the White House later this month and canceled his trip to Washington, the White House said on Monday.
The Israeli premier’s decision to nix his US visit was likely prompted by last year’s international nuclear accord with Iran and the Obama administration’s push for a “Palestinian-Israeli peace agreement,” James Morris, editor of America-hijacked.com, told Press TV on Tuesday.
President Obama is planning to go directly to the Middle East Quartet – the US, the United Nations, the European Union and Russia – in an attempt to “impose a settlement on the Israelis and the Palestinians,” he added.