Obama likely to meet Israel's Netanyahu in November, White House says

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President Barack Obama will likely hold talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in early November, the White House said on Friday, their first meeting since U.S.-led diplomacy resulted in an Iran nuclear deal that Israel fiercely opposed.

Efforts to arrange a White House visit by Netanyahu appear aimed at easing tensions between Washington and its closest Middle East ally now that Obama’s Democrats in the U.S. Senate have blocked a Republican bid to derail the landmark Iran agreement.

The dispute over the deal that Iran reached in July with world powers, which calls for curbs on its nuclear program in return for sanctions relief, had driven an already rocky relationship between the Obama and Netanyahu governments to a new low.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the exact date for the meeting was still being finalized but that it was likely to be in early November.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/12/us-usa-israel-whitehouse-idUSKCN0RB1ZI20150912

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1. Now he wants to talk to the president

Back in Feb/March he didn't bother consulting the president.

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2. Obama will be far more gracious to Netanyahu than he deserves

But then, that's the whole concept behind grace. I predict Netanyahu will again fail to take the path less traveled.

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3. Indeed

As he usually is.