Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with US ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro Tuesday, a day after the envoy leveled sharp criticism against Israel’s West Bank settlement policy, and alleged Israel had two standards of law in the territory, one for Israelis and one another for Palestinians.
The ambassador’s comments on Monday drew a furious response from Israel, but according to Hebrew reports on Tuesday, Netanyahu and Shapiro held a friendly half-hour meeting in the Prime Minister’s Office.
The two were signaling that there was no lingering tensions between the US and Israel following Monday’s public spat.
Ambassador Dan Shapiro (left) meeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem in November 2012. (photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
Shapiro’s comments — coming on the day that an Israeli mother-of-six killed by a Palestinian terrorist was laid to rest, and a pregnant woman was injured in a second attack– drew a harsh response from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office, who called the remarks “unacceptable and incorrect.”
–Tamar Pileggi
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