White House denies reports of ‘reassessment’ of US-Israel ties
Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief
Then-US vice president Joe Biden, left, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a joint press conference at the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem, March 9, 2010. (AP/Ariel Schalit)
A spokesman for the White House National Security Council says that there is “no talk” of reassessing Israeli-US ties, after New York Times columnist Tom Friedman claimed such a move was imminent.
“There is no talk of some kind of formal reassessment” of relations between Washington and Jerusalem, the spokesman says.
According to Channel 12 news, an unnamed US official says that while the US is “worried” by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s actions things have not escalated to reassessing ties.
“We’re worried by Netanyahu, we don’t understand what he is up to, and why he is allowing extremists in his coalition to dictate the tone,” the official purportedly says.
