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23rd April 2011, 11:57
An invitation by US Republican lawmakers for the Israeli prime minister to address the Congress has exposed an Israeli plan to divide senior officials within the US government.
The Republican invitation for Tel Aviv's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make a high-profile speech at a joint session of the US Congress next month underscores standing rifts between US President Barack Obama and the Israeli premier and sets in motion a “bizarre diplomatic race” over which party will be the first to offer a plan to reignite the deadlocked Israeli-Palestinian talks, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
“America and Israel are the closest of friends and allies, and we look forward to hearing the prime minister's views on how we can continue working together for peace, freedom and stability,” said Republican Speaker of the US House of Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio in a statement announcing his intent to invite Netanyahu.
While the Obama administration has been pondering in recent months whether the US president should deliver a major address on the growing upheaval in the region and the Arab world, Netanyahu, distrustful of any Obama plan, “has been considering whether to pre-empt the White House with a proposal of his own, before a friendly US Congress,” the times reports, citing remarks by American officials and diplomats in the region.
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http://www.presstv.ir/detail/176125.html
The Republican invitation for Tel Aviv's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make a high-profile speech at a joint session of the US Congress next month underscores standing rifts between US President Barack Obama and the Israeli premier and sets in motion a “bizarre diplomatic race” over which party will be the first to offer a plan to reignite the deadlocked Israeli-Palestinian talks, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
“America and Israel are the closest of friends and allies, and we look forward to hearing the prime minister's views on how we can continue working together for peace, freedom and stability,” said Republican Speaker of the US House of Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio in a statement announcing his intent to invite Netanyahu.
While the Obama administration has been pondering in recent months whether the US president should deliver a major address on the growing upheaval in the region and the Arab world, Netanyahu, distrustful of any Obama plan, “has been considering whether to pre-empt the White House with a proposal of his own, before a friendly US Congress,” the times reports, citing remarks by American officials and diplomats in the region.
source
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/176125.html