Posted on 01/19/2016 8:44:26 AM PST by Nachum
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met in his office privately on Tuesday for some 20 minutes with US ambassador Dan Shapiro, a day after Shapiro irked the premier by saying that at times it seemed Israel employed a double legal standard in the West Bank.
The meeting took place prior to a meeting Netanyahu had with a delegation of four US Congressmen, whom Shapiro accompanied to the Prime Minister's office. Diplomatic officials stressed this point to indicate that Shapiro was not summoned to Netanyahu's office.
The delegation included Republican congressman Doug Lamborn from Colorado, Paul Cook from California, Dennis Ross from Florida, as well as Democrat Brad Ashford from Nebraska.
Netanyahu and Shapiro, in addition to discussing the ambassador’s comment, also discussed the Memorandum of Understanding being negotiated now between the US and Israel. The MoU will be the framework for the next decade of US military aid to Israel.
Neither the PMO nor the US embassy would provide any more details of the conversation.
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