No meeting between Netanyahu and Trump set up | Political News

White House officers had been shocked to read in the Israeli press that President Donald Trump would host Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as no such meeting had been scheduled.

The Israeli prime minister has visited the Oval Office six occasions since Trump’s inauguration a yr and a half in the past, the most visits by any world chief, with each meeting scheduled hours or days in advance. However, this time, even after two weeks of makes an attempt to get an appointment, nothing has been fixed, Axios reported.

Earlier this month, Trump told the outlet that the Israeli premier had called to congratulate him on the 250th Anniversary of the U.S. and had requested to go to.

“We get along very good. [Netanyahu] knows who the boss is,” Trump told the outlet earlier, referring to himself.

He had said Netanyahu may go to proper after he returned from the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, which befell July 7-8.

After the death of former Senator Lindsey Graham, Netanyahu’s workplace told reporters that he needed to attend the funeral and deliberate to journey to the U.S. this weekend and meet with the president on Monday.

Axios reported that Netanyahu’s workplace had even began preparation for the go to, sending an advance crew of protocol and security officers to Washington. However, on Thursday, his workplace said the journey was canceled, citing the postponement of Graham’s funeral service.

“Our impression was that Bibi was trying to will a meeting into existence,” an official told Axios.

Trump and Netanyahu have been at odds after months of having began a conflict in Iran. Before Trump’s go to to Turkey, Netanyahu criticized Trump’s intention to promote F-35 fighter jets to Turkey. According to a White House official, Trump was “pissed off” by the interview, Axios reported.

On Wednesday, more than half the House Democrats voted to strip $3.3 billion in U.S. assist from Israel, the most substantial signal yet that once rock-solid bipartisan help for the nation is disintegrating in the aftermath of its conflict in Gaza, which has killed hundreds of Palestinians.

The vote tally, 104-314, was not enough to connect the modification to a broader national security spending invoice, but it stands as a stark accounting of the shifting attitudes that are dividing the Democratic Party and the nation over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conflict strategy, now approaching its third yr.