The meeting between Netanyahu and Biden at the United Nations was postponed.
According to Reuters, Biden and Netanyahu are scheduled to meet on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
In this connection, a White House official announced that after months of tension, US President Joe Biden will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said in this connection that the two sides will meet to discuss the democratic values shared between the United States and Israel and the vision for a more stable, prosperous and integrated region, as well as to compare notes on effective and deterrent countering Iran will meet.
Netanyahu had announced earlier this month that he would visit the United States, but there were initially no plans to meet with American officials during the trip. A trip without a plan to meet with American officials seemed unusual for Tel Aviv officials.
At the same time, the level of differences between Washington and Tel Aviv is still very high, and officials of the White House and Tel Aviv will only meet on the sidelines of the General Assembly, and there is still no news of Netanyahu’s presence in the White House.
Earlier, the Zionist media reported that Washington is trying to remove Netanyahu from the stage of nuclear negotiations with Iran. In this connection, the Zionist media, quoting a well-informed political source, reported on the US negotiations with Iran and emphasized that the US government does not want the occupying prime minister to make a statement or react to these negotiations.
A Zionist political source confirmed to Israel’s Channel 12 that talks are underway between the US and Iran regarding returning to the nuclear deal, but Washington is trying to keep Netanyahu out of these talks.
The political commentator of Israel’s Channel 12 said: “A senior political source has informed that the practical explanation of the United States to political officials in Tel Aviv is that the Prime Minister of Tel Aviv, Benjamin Netanyahu, was not invited by the President of the United States, Joe Biden, to comment on the negotiations with Iran. be.”
Pointing out that Washington does not want to hear Netanyahu talk about Iran, this source said: “The main dispute was judicial reforms, which prevented the Americans from inviting Netanyahu to the White House.”
This well-informed political source in the White House added: “The American president wants to distance Netanyahu as much as possible from the negotiations that are currently underway between the Americans and Iran.”
On the other hand, Biden has criticized the judicial reforms that Netanyahu’s right-wing cabinet is promoting and describes the actions of extremists in Tel Aviv as a threat to Israel. Netanyahu has yet to be invited to the White House since returning to power in December at the head of what Biden described as “one of the most extreme” governments in Israeli history.
