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Israel's Changing Relations with the White House

(Ha'aretz) Barak Ravid - Ministers and MKs have heard Prime Minister Netanyahu talk about the dramatic change in the atmosphere between the White House and the Prime Minister's Office. Netanyahu told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Wednesday, "There's a change of the highest order in the White House's view of Iran. Trump and his people get the danger and understand that Iran must be viewed as a source of the Mideast's problems, not a solution." Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who met with U.S. officials in Washington this week, returned with a sense of real change in the relationship. "On issues relevant to Israel and the Middle East, senior Trump administration officials see eye to eye with us on most things," said an Israeli official briefed on Lieberman's Washington meetings. "The Trump administration wants to reach understandings with us...about the overall vision and the question of where we're going on the Palestinian issue. They don't want to force anything on us, and it's clear to them that first, we have to rebuild trust between the parties, which doesn't exist now, and improve the West Bank's economic situation."
2017-03-10 00:00:00
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