Netanyahu and Trump barely broached embassy topic -- report

Reuters reports that the issue of the US Embassy move to Jerusalem “was barely discussed” during Sunday’s phone call between Netanyahu and Trump, citing Israeli officials.

The lack of talk on the issue would seem to dovetail with assessments that the embassy move was not being placed at the top of Trump’s agenda.

Despite some Israeli news outlets and right-wing politicians seeing Sunday’s statement from spokesman Sean Spicer that the White House was at the “very beginning” of talking about it as a sign the controversial move was on the table, the agency reports that diplomats and officials saw the opposite.

“Sounds more like walking it backwards,” an unnamed Israeli official is quoted saying in a text message.