Ex-US ambassador predicts ‘rocky road’ ahead between Biden and Netanyahu

File: US President Joe Biden meets then-opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu (right) at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, July 14, 2022. At left is Secretary of State Antony Blinken; 2nd-left is US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides. (GPO)
File: US President Joe Biden meets then-opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu (right) at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, July 14, 2022. At left is Secretary of State Antony Blinken; 2nd-left is US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides. (GPO)

Former US Ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk predicts there will be a “rocky road” ahead for Israel-US relations if Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu forms a government with the far-right Religious Zionism party.

“The Biden administration doesn’t have a good history of relations with Netanyahu, and if he takes on these far-right extremists into his government and into his cabinet, then I think we’re in for a rocky road,” Indyk says in remarks broadcast on Channel 12.

Netanyahu’s right-religious bloc is poised to win a clear victory in Israel’s elections.

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